i am constantly overwhelmed by the thought of me and my family dying. i cry almost everyday and it is starting to distract me from doing simple things. i never had faced this problem until i was 14 really. At the age of 12 it first started, i was sitting on the couch with my mom watching a television show, in the show one of the characters family members had passed away and i had thought about it for like 30 minutes afterword. my mom had went upstairs and i stayed on the couch. out of no where i just started bawling and my mom came down stairs and tried to comfort me but i just kept crying and spilling out all my thoughts. now till this day i usually cry everyday and i'm just horrified over it. i'm not really religious at all but i am a christian and i just ask my self, "why put me on this earth for me just too get old and die away and never remember any of the ones i spent nights crying over? i'm so scared of this thought how can i overcome it help please?!
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It is completely understandable you feeling overwhelmed by the thought of you or one of your family members dying one day. The reason you feel so much anxiety in regards to death is because humans was not created to die. We was created to
possess and populate the earth forever. The Bible says at (Ecclesiastes 3:11) That "God has put eternity in our hearts". Meaning all humans with all of their thinking faculties would want to live forever and would want others to live forever with them.
The reason we die is because our first parents Adam and Eve disobeyed a clear command given to them by God. He warned them that if they did not acquiesce to the command given to them that from that day forward they will positively die.
That command and consequence for not following that command can be found in your Bible at (Genesis 2:16,17)
Knowing that us humans would struggle with the fact of seeing our love ones die and also having thoughts of our own mortality God has provided relief for us in the near future. In your bible turn to (Revelation 21:4) There it's says God will wipe out every tear from our eyes and DEATH will be no more! Also in your bible turn to (Acts 24:15) There it says that there is going to be a RESURRECTION of both the righteous and the unrighteous! So Just from those two scriptures in the Bible we learn two things 1.There will be a time in the near future when no one will die. 2. Those who have died that there will be resurrection of them to life again on earth.
There are many more scriptures in the Bible that gives us relief in regards to death. Hopefully I was able to explain to you clearly why we die and what God promises to do about death. You will be happy to know that these promises that God gives us is something that we don't have to wait long to see. To get the answer to how soon these promises will be fulfilled and more ways to cope with the experience of having a family member die please go to JW.ORG and type in death in the search engine.
We are afraid of the thought of dying because we have not realized the truth about death. We have not realized that every ‘body’ dies, every body has to die, death is certain, nobody can escape death. But we have not realized what is death. We live with the fear of losing all that we own, all that is known, just as we live with the fear of the unknown that lies beyond death. But once we realize death is a reality of life, that death is not the end, it is just a bend that we must transcend, we can make death a celebration. If we realize that death is a doorway to enlightenment, to God, if we realize that only the body dies, but ME, the mind and ego based on its karma, its action is reborn, we will be able to choose ethical and moral actions and be reborn in a happier life. Ultimately, we should go beyond being the ME, the mind and ego, beyond karma, we should be liberated and united with the Divine , then death will become a celebration.