Is it normal to constantly think about death, but be afraid to die?

Everywhere I go, I think about death. I think about me, dying. And not just in general. I will set up multiple scenarios in my head, depending on my location, depicting how or why I will die in a certain situation.
And the scenarios aren't exactly your everyday cause of death.
To be honest, I scare myself sometimes. I am afraid of dying. I'm not obsessed with death in the least, but is it normal to have thoughts like this?

Is It Normal?
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  • You contradicted yourself. You said you think about death and yourself dying everywhere you go. Then you said you are not obsessed with death in the least.

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    • I'm not obsessed with death. If I devoted my life to thinking about death, that might be an obsession. But I don't obsess over it. Besides, I was just looking for an answer to my question..

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      • I am not sure why you believe thinking about death means that you want to die. I fail to see how the two correlate. Being a sadist does not make you suicidal. That is a strange assumption.

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      • thank you, i finally have something to masterbate to

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  • To me it is. I get those all the time when I go out. Yes it is

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  • personally i'm not afraid of the actual dying but what comes after. live your life well and to heaven or do bad things and go to hell? the whole thing is confusing why are we dying to live when we're just living to die what's the purpose of it all, but one thing i know is that we are guests on this earth and there's stuff so much greater after but then live life to the fullest and not spend it worrying about death it's an inevitable part of life you can't escape it

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  • You shouldn't be afraid of death
    If you will die you won't feel the loss cuz you will be dead...

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  • I think about death a lot too, it fascinates and frightens me in equal measures. To me it is the great unknown and I think that's why my mind always returns to it. Not sure if this has been helpful but you have my empathy at least.

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  • The fact is, you do have an obsession. It's quite a common paranoia, you want to live so badly that you think of the worst case scenarios and you wish to avoid them. It's an unhealthy and quite a contradictory habit that can drive you crazy. For example, you want to survive but avoid anything that could get you killed, which will lead you to not going out there and living your life.
    It is as I said, a habit, and the only thing you can do really is force yourself to have other thoughts and stop being so paranoid.

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  • I'm obsessed with it, especially suicide. As much as I like and have accepted death, there's a part of me that's still terrified of it. I think it's normal to fear it. Death is one of the greatest unknowns a person could face. People fear what they don't understand. It's inevitable. One day we will all die.

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