Don't we all naturally fear death as a self-defense mechanism due to our nervous system?

I don't care about this,no one can stop death unless we are immortal,just enjoy the life time

I am afraid of pain. Therefore, the thought of dying from some kind of painful physical trauma scares me.

I am not so much afraid of the thought of not existing. I will however be extremely disappointed that I won't be around to witness future technological and social advances.

I won't be around to see the day when religion is all but eradicated from mainstream culture. And that saddens me.
I probably won't be around for the creation of legitimate artificial intelligence, and that saddens me.
I probably won't be around for the technological singularity, and that saddens me.
I probably won't be around when we first make contact with other civilizations, and that saddens me.
I won't be around to learn the truth about the universe in which we live, and that saddens me.

The perfect analogy is reading 3/4 of the worlds greatest novel, and never getting to finish it.

It's a temporary sadness though. Because I'll be dead.

Some people create mechanisms to cope with their fear of death. Guess what they're called.

Assuming that there's no sort of afterlife: If we came to life once, given an infinite amount of time there's no reason that it won't happen a second time. And that time would pass instantly due to being ded.

Except it wouldn't be you that came back.

It would be something that wasn't you.

Unless of coarse you're counting on the 100% chance that on an infinite time scale, the astronomically improbable probability that billions of atoms arrange themselves in such a way that mirrors your own brain before death. In that case, yes. Instant life.

But then again not really. Because it's just another version of you. An identical stream of conciousness, but not your stream of consciousness. So you yourself would not be experiencing it. Another way I like to look at this is the thought that our stream of consciousness dies every time we go to sleep. And we wake up thinking nothing happened, because we're just a new stream of consciousness with all of the relevant memories. We think we've been living for years, yet we haven't. We just have the memory of living all those years. But now we're just getting into the definition of 'life' and whether or not constant uninterrupted conciousness is a prerequisite to remaining alive. There's also the question as to whether this has any relevance whatsoever to others experiencing you through time from an external point of view.

I'm not talking coming to life again in the same body you died in. But I don't necessarily mean reincarnation either. Instead, I mean that it may be possible to experience life a second time (or infinite amounts of times) in different forms of life as eternity rolls on, with no memory or knowledge that it was happening at all.
I'm shit at explaining what I mean and I've tried and failed to explain it to Zed a month ago or so.

I had that same thought about whether or not a new stream of consciousness takes over whenever we go to sleep and wake up, actually. But my own conclusion was that I didn't really care since I don't notice it. If we "died" in our sleep, our existence would disappear and we wouldn't be able to feel/sense anything at all. But instead we wake up.

I'm not afraid for a couple reasons

First reason is I have almost died multiple times from almost drowning, suffocation, cars, and disease once

The other main reason which I didn't add to the ones out of my control was from trying to do it myself... As you can see I'm still alive until I complete a promise

There are a couple of small reasons but those are the main reasons I don't fear death

I'm afraid of death because of the people that are left behind.

But if I would be all alone in the world. I'd gladly fight with death.

Quote from Devour

I'm not talking coming to life again in the same body you died in. But I don't necessarily mean reincarnation either. Instead, I mean that it may be possible to experience life a second time (or infinite amounts of times) in different forms of life as eternity rolls on, with no memory or knowledge that it was happening at all.
I'm shit at explaining what I mean and I've tried and failed to explain it to Zed a month ago or so.

I had that same thought about whether or not a new stream of consciousness takes over whenever we go to sleep and wake up, actually. But my own conclusion was that I didn't really care since I don't notice it. If we "died" in our sleep, our existence would disappear and we wouldn't be able to feel/sense anything at all. But instead we wake up.

No one understands just what life is, so there's no way to explain it easily.

I tend to assume that conciousness is derived entirely through materialistic mechanisms. Therefore reincarnation is out the window. And so is an afterlife.

But crazy shit can happen on an infinite time scale. In fact anything and everything will happen.

Quote from Cronos

But crazy shit can happen on an infinite time scale. In fact anything and everything will happen.

brb committing seppuku repeatedly until I find some existence where I can fly. I'm outta here, later nerds

I am not afraid of death. I am not if i think about it.
But i know exactly that i will be afraid as hell if death is near to me.

The only reason I'm not afraid of death is because I never really imagined the possibility. Nobody wakes up in the morning and thinks "Well shit I'm gonna die today." I've had other things to worry about instead of worrying about something that likely won't happen outside of some freak occasion I can't prepare for. If I do realize that I'm probably going to die, I'd imagine I'd be scared shitless even if I claimed that I wouldn't, but who knows. I'd like not to be afraid.

I'm not scared of dying. I'm scared of dying before I have enjoyed the full potential of my life.
However, if it's death you guys are talking about, especially what happens after death, then that's a whole different matter.
I'm gonna go from a more 'scientific' point of view here.
From what I believe, at death, your consciousness (the "I am me" part of you) fades away, and you'd be left in a void for God-knows how long, but you wouldn't experience it because you have no consciousness. Then comes the matter of whether that 'consciousness' would be transferred to another new life form, where you get the sense of "I am me" back, but without your old memories and with no idea what you would be. I'm just gonna call that transfer "rebirth", just to keep things simple. You have no idea what you would be 'reborn' as. You could be 'reborn' as a starving child in Africa. You could be 'reborn' as a fly that dies in a Venus fly trap. For all I know, you could be reborn as an alien life form on a different planet in a different galaxy. Or maybe you wouldn't be reborn at all, with you being nothing forever, yet you would not know it because you are gone.
Deep as fuck.
If that is death, then I am scared of it, yet fascinated by it. Some times, I would think of killing myself just to find out what happens.
I guess maybe that's one reason for religion. You loathe the idea of the possibility of being nothing forever, and thus a heaven sounds like... heaven. You also don't want the people you hate going to heaven, so you'd want to damn them to hell.
It's a scary concept.

I really don't care. Up to this point, I've lived a good life, so I'm happy whether or not I die today or 40 years from now.

You shouldn't be afraid of death. Be afraid of how you die. Death is part of the cyrcle of life, every living thing lives and dies. Just accept it, you won't feel anything, no sadness, no anger, no madness, no loneliness. Besides, upon death the body releases a huge ammount of hormones and andrenaline which will give you the ride of your life.