Give me a break. Tough guy, religious zealot, whatever. You fear death and you know it.
It’s perfectly natural. There is nothing wrong with fearing death. Fearing death jives with all major religious tenets and is actually a lot better than not fearing death. Think how many suicide bombers there wouldn’t be if they only feared death.
But I digress, back to my biggest complaint about the whole thing. When someone says “I don’t fear death”, it is at the least disingenuous and at most completely self centered.
The disingenuous part is easy… I just don’t believe you and I don’t think you’ve thought things through completely. Which brings me to the self-centered part of not fearing death…
If you are right with God, or right with whatever, fine. That’s great and I’m happy for you. But what about everybody you are going to leave behind? No matter how prepared you are for your particular version of an afterlife, if any, there are still a bunch of people that will be left here in your wake who you will no longer be able to support or help directly. I’m sure vast estate is more than ample to provide abundantly for everyone, but sometimes it takes a little more than all that cash you have stashed to make things work.
Take for instance your family.
You can’t possible say with a straight a face, “I don’t fear death and everything that comes with it especially the effect it will have on my children.”
How about fearing the death of other people? Again, it’s great you are comfortable with your own death. But what about the death of your children, or other loved ones? You fear that and you’re full of horse sh!t if you don’t admit it. Plain and simple, you fear your kids dying and you fear your husband or wife dying or any of those that you hold dear to your heart.
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as evidenced by your complaint, fear and bitterness go hand in hand. instead of the anger, you might want to do a bit deeper contemplation of what it is that others have that you lack.