X-Message-Number: 23467 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:06:11 -0500 From: Henry R Hirsch <> Subject: My fear of dying I'm with Woody Allen. "I don't mind dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens." Dying is OK for thou or thee, if that's what you want, but I personally do not wish to participate. I have felt that way since age five, when I first found out that you go to sleep and don't wake up again. I never did buy that yarn about waking up in heaven. Now does that mean that I fear death? That depends on how you define fear, but I think it does. I am a risk aversive person. I never do anything more dangerous than ride in a taxi in New York, and, when I do that, I have to fight the urge to lie flat on the floor in the back seat. So you ask me whether I fear death, and I am afraid I must answer that I do. If you are like me, don't be embarrassed. Fear of death is a positive trait from an evolutionary standpoint. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23467