I worry all the time about death. I worry about my husband, my parents, my dogs, myself, ect. dying. I know everyone dies and it's life, but I cant deal with death, especially if I lost my husband and parents. I have OCD and ptsd so my mind is constantly going and tormenting me with painful, horrible, scary things that have happened to me. I cant stand feeling like this. I'm always in fear even though I feel completely safe with my husband and I know he'd never let anyone hurt me.

I know that doesn't make sense but it confuses me just as much. It's like I'm always on gaurd watching behind me and making people in store think I'm trying to steal when really I'm just paranoid about who is there. My mind feels like a fast forward button that never pauses....it just keeps on going like the energizer bunny. I cry my eyes out at the drop of a hat or the mention, thought or knowledge of the word death or dying. I try to be so careful and safe and I do the same for my husband and parents and dogs. I know I overly worry about stuff that I shouldn't but it's hard not to think that people are looking in my windows at night or are trying to break in, if I make that one mistake of forgetting to lock a door or close a curtain.

Hi,

I, too, worry about death. My worry though stems from the fact that I'm an atheist and I do not believe in an afterlife. Death is scary for me because in that moment before dying, I know I will realize that I will no longer have memories, even though the logic in that doesn't make sense since I will be dead and not aware of not having memories.

I stay away from thinking about death as much as possible because I know if I do I will only worry myself into a state of serious neurosis.

I also worry about death. If my husband takes the kids somewhere, I have to focus very hard, to not let myself panic about what could happen to them. If they're late coming home, I get very anxious and my mind starts making up scenarios. If the phone rings, I just about lose it, as I expect it to be the police telling me of a tragedy.

I don't worry about my own death, so much. The way I see it, when I die, my suffering will be over. The only thing that scares me about my own death, is what it would do to my husband and kids.

What eats at me more than death, is suffering. The fact that there are so many people and animals who suffer horribly, every day. That's why I live a cruelty-free lifestyle. I will not partake in the cruelty inflicted on innocent creatures. I will not eat the flesh of the dead. I know I can't stop the cruelty and unnecessary killing, but I sure don't have to add to it.

So, I'm a Vegan Atheist, with PTSD. No wonder so few people can relate to me.

Wow, we can all form an Atheist group.
I worry that I will die in some painful way and my husband will spend my IRA on his next wife.

I'm an Agnostic the view that the question of the existence or nonexistence of an omnipotent God and the nature of ultimate reality is unknowable by reason of our natural inability to verify any experience with anything but another subjective experience.

I don't fear my own death I've pretty much been there already It was like a dreamless deep sleep. I didn't really feel pain while dying although I new what was happening around me before I blacked out. The pain came when I was resuscitated.

What messes with me is the large amount of friends and family who have died around me. There are so many why did I not die ? I think that is my biggest issue.

I don't worry about death but oddly enough I do worry about not having a tomorrow; as if everything in my life could just disappear. It is difficult for me to discuss things even a few months from now because I just can't see it happening.

Sometimes when I'm alone with my thoughts, I worry about death and every aspect of it. I worry that I will meet an untimely demise, a painful one, and all alone. I worry about what it would mean to my children. I worry about what I would miss, what I wouldn't be able to protect them from, what I wouldn't be able to participate in... I worry for their health and safety all the time. I can be overprotective but I reel it back alot, I don't want them to become neurotic....