The life that we have here on Earth is very uncertain. Because of this uncertainty, we humans react the natural way by fearing the things that we are uncertain of. Man has a lot of fear in his life that is why modern medicine and technology have been developed in order for individuals to overcome these fears.
Man has a lot of phobias. Indeed Psychology has a lot of phobias to mention. But phobias can be summarized into a certain fear. An individual who has fear of heights or acrophobia fears heights because he is afraid to die. An individual who has triskaidekatriaphobia is someone who fears the occurrence of Friday 13th; in which the root of this fear however is the fear of death. In the same way, an individual having phobias of animals fear animals because of the close-to-death or traumatic experiences they already encountered with them. Nosophobia which is the fear of contracting a disease also pertains to the worst effect that diseases can bring which is death. Hoplophobia or the fear of firearms stems from the fear that fire arms might cause death. The root of almost all phobias is the fear of death. Almost all the phobias can be summarized to what is called “necrophobia” or the fear of death.
It is noticeable that suicide and suicidal tendencies are so rampant in our society nowadays. This event views death as the last choice in order to end their problems. Individuals who commit suicide want to end their lives because they are tired of living in a very problematic society. This is a view about death that contradicts to man’s philosophy of valuing life. Some people view death as the ultimate solution of their struggles in life. While other people are afraid to die, individuals who have suicidal tendencies want to end their life by committing suicide. While other people resist death, these individuals want to die earlier.
Technology and medicine have provided ways to resist or avoid death. Diseases are now easily cured through the latest and more effective discoveries in medicine. Technology is also going with the flow of discovering medical equipments in order to prolong the lives of the patients in the hospital. It is but an irony that some people fear to die but are doing things that could lead them to death. Some individuals still are not prepared to die but they keep on engaging in their vices that gives them an easier one-way ticket to death. It is an oddity that someone is afraid to die yet he is putting in nicotine and alcohol to himself. No matter how we resist and avoid death, the fear of death will still be in the human psyche.
The author knows for sure that some of the readers of this paper might be having this kind of fear. Living a life here on Earth is full of uncertainties. We are not sure whether we would die right here, right now. What if you, the reader would die right now? Are you ready for it? Are you ready for what awaits you after death?
Do not worry nor be troubled, the author was once on your situation and he has overcome it. The author once experienced this fear of death and it is his noble intention to share to other people what he has learned in order to overcome this fear.
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