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becaus they want to live and do things which they cant do after dieng

I don't think it's so much that people hate death but fear it. We fear what we can't understand until we're their. I've watched several people die. A few of those people being old and starting the beginning of the dieing process all the way to the end, where they actually pass. They seem to have good days and bad days. Some days they were as sharp as a tack and other days they were forgetful. Towards the end they have one or two rallies where it appears they're getting better but then they fall back to an even worse state. All through it though they never seemed to show fear, more so acceptance of death. I suppose throughout life we fear death until we are there ourselves, but then when we arrive at that moment, we realize that it might not be so bad.

Because people fear what they do not know.

What is on the other side? Nothing? An afterlife? Do we become ghosts? Or is the no other side period?

If you had to jump into a pit and you had no way of telling how deep it was would you?

Again, people fear what they do not know.

Oh yeah, and the people that HATE death are idiots. I can see fear, but not hate.

Something weird, I feel a lot sadder when my pets die than my family members... When my family member dies, I just move on to life. A few seconds of A LOT of frowning, then just plain frowning. Then I forget about it. Sure I think about them and miss them, but I've never cried.

But when my pets die, I cry. It's weird. Maybe... my pets treated me better? Yeah thats probably it(sorry mom and dad).

Persoally it's not dying that I fear

It's how I am going to die.

When my family member dies, I just move on to life.

I not hate death because all the people will die soon and death is life common.

people are afraid of what they dont know, or understand. There just to many what ifs; what if i was wrong, what if i was too bad, etc. 'Death is a part of life', and not to be confused with 'Death is only the beggining'.

Well really, why do people think death is so bad?! I mean really, we're all just filthy, disease ridden unholy animals

people arent always only afraid of death. sometimes they are afraid that they may not see the ones they love ever again or they are afraid of pain that may result in pain. i wont go suicidal but, when death comes, i wont be afriad

I mean really, we're all just filthy, disease ridden unholy animals, so why wouldn't this be any more different from losing a mouse?

And if you die, everything goes black. Forever.

Part of death is the loss. A person who was there, something that became regular, is gone. Its why we can separate ourselves from deaths of others, people we don't know never really were alive to us. Someone who's close and you have regular interaction with is harder to deal with, because you realize you'll never see that person again, never talk to them, never do any of the things that became a part of your life. I guess that's one of the reasons why so many people like to believe in heaven/hell, but I think that's deluding yourself, no disrespect. By today's laws of science (admittedly, they can be flawed, in fact they most certainly are. Still, they're the most reliable things we have to go on) there's no way something like heaven or hell could exist. Death is a disappearance in our lives, and humans don't like abrupt change like that, especially when we rely on those social interactions and let ourselves get attached.

Well, we all just have to embrace what life throws at us, and if it is death, we just keep on moving, because death is immenent. There is no way to avoid it and if you die well, you die. You can't go back in time.

like all humans, we fear what we don't understand. because death is an irremovable and completely unknown concept of life, people fear that it may be painful in ways that may or may not be conceivable. for example, in the old version "The Day the Earth Stood Still" an alien landed on earth. the army and the police surrounded him as he emerged from his space craft. as soon as he produced a small, weapon looking object, a paranoid soldier shot it and blew it up. the alien told them "that device had the power to create worlds..." or something like that.

but i don't fear death. if you think logically, there really is no reason to fear death. we fear the unknown yes, but why? if its unknown, then we have no reason to fear it. death is merely a time of eternal rest, or whatever happens when you die.