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.

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