OGSF 5.9G - Frosted

[AbundanceCH]

I have escaped death itself and I was not afraid even when I was close to it.  I have been able to let go of attachments.  Minimalism helped greatly maybe you should look into it (so did Buddhism).  There are many tools at your disposal if death is something you're afraid of.  I'm not really worried about losing any material things it's nothing I will take with me anyway and family is the only thing i'll miss but they have their own journey and so do I.  I hope you overcome your fears.

I used to put off my fear of death with different mental coping mechanisms (religion, pleasure, distractions, delusional optimism, etc.). I assume most people are like this, so when I hear people say they aren’t afraid of death I hear “I have learned to put off my fear of death” or “I am afraid of death, but it is expressed in my fear of clowns or spiders (or whatever)”. When you get to the core of it all, fear is the fear of death. Anyone who feels fear is afraid of death. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt though since I can’t know how someone else’s brain works. I can only make conclusions off my own brain and my observations of other people from that viewpoint.

Also, I’m not afraid of losing my stuff when I die. I’m afraid, among other things, of losing all life has to offer. I’m getting to the good parts of life (thanks to subliminals) and I think about all the awesome stuff I’ll never get to experience when I’m dead. It was easier for me to be less scared of dying when my life sucked, but now that things are going to get awesome I don’t want to lose all of that. Also, when I’m dead I won’t be anymore.

I am showing positive progress though. We shall see how things go.

I almost died last year but because I have been working on my own self improvement for so long plus buddhism I wasn't scared.  But I agree with you that yes a lot of the fear of death can be due to missing out on the good things in life.  But for me i've eaten so much good food and had sex so many times that the only thing I feel i would be missing is traveling.  But even that when I think deeply it's not that important.  It's just to satisfy the ego because when you are a happy person you are happy whenever you are.  You don't need outside stimuli.

If i could give you some advice that might then that would be it.  Go for those things that you feel you would miss out on and maybe that will help with that fear.  But as with everything in life once you get those things you will realize they weren't such a big deal anyway and not really important in the scheme of things.