IV. Reasons of Necrophobia

IV. Reasons of Necrophobia

There are so many different reasons why different people fear to die but the author would just like to emphasize most common reasons why Filipinos are afraid to die.

A. The Desire to Live Longer

Everyone wants to live a long life. This is the primary reason why the field of healing and medicine exists. The desire to live a long life is one of the primary reasons why people from different age brackets fear to die. Almost everyone does not want his or her life to simply end without enjoying it. The discontentment of a short life is frustrating that is why people do not want to die. Other people also fear death because they still have not achieved their ambitions and their dreams in their lives. Almost every individual wants to live life to the fullest. Someone who has this desire fears and avoids death because death is the only event that will stop someone from living.

B. The Pain of Experiencing Death

There is this confusion among people how painful it is to die. Some people are afraid to die because they do not want to experience the pain of experiencing death. Different people die in different instances. Some people peacefully die while sleeping. Others die in a car accident. People do not usually die instantly. Sadly, some people have to suffer before they die.

Someone cannot help but wonder the pain of loosing a breath and the pain struggling in order to breath.

Some people still takes years of suffering before they die. For instance, people who have lung cancer and diabetes. They will be experiencing an instant death. Slowly by slowly they will die.

C. Unfinished Obligations

Filipino culture gives importance on valuing the physical family in which an individual belongs. A mother or father cannot afford to die while their children are still young. It is their obligation to take good care of them. Because of this obligation, some Filipinos fear to die because they have an obligation that is still unfinished. It also becomes a culture that the older sibling would help his or her younger brothers and sisters finish schooling. Without fulfilling this social obligation the older sibling fear to die.

Some people especially among the Filipinos fear to the die because of unfinished obligations. People fear to die because they still have unfulfilled responsibilities among their families, friends and their loved ones.

D. Uncertainty of What Lies After Death

This is a fear that is universally true. People fear to die because there is uncertainty of what is their eternal destiny after dying. There is this significant question that has been totally disregarded by almost everyone; “What’s next after death?” on the contrary, there have been many speculations about life after death, thus the concept of heaven and hell.

Before, this was the primary reason why I fear death the most. I came to the point of my thinking that if ever I would die today I am not certain of where I would be going. I want to go to heaven but I am not sure that I am qualified to go to heaven. If ever GOD would ask me, “Why would I let you enter my heaven?” I don’t know what to answer. There is this uncertainty of what’s the eternal destiny after death