Is it normal to expect to die too soon?

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Hi all. I'm 18, live in a desert in California and I constantly think about death. I'm not afraid to die because I will be gone, I'm afraid that it can sneak up on you and grab your life away at any given moment. Please understand I am not depressed nor have I ever been but I wonder if anybody else thinks the way I do? Is it weird that whenever I drive somewhere far from home I think to myself "wow, what a shame it would be if I died on this trip." Then I think about who I'll leave behind and who I'm supposedly going to be reunited with in the afterlife, if it even exists. I believe in reincarnation so I also wonder who I was in the past. We all have thoughts on where we are going, personally I think about this feeling I get that I'm going to die young, but that can mean both young at heart or young in age, preferably young at heart. I just want to know I'm not alone with these thoughts. Once again, these are just thoughts I keep to myself so I don't freak my friends or family out thinking I'm depressed or troubled, they're just things I'm curious about ya know, so if you, whoever you are reading this, have the same or similar or even the opposite thoughts, I'd like to know. Thanks for reading this even if you don't respond. Have a nice life.

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  • green_boogers
    8 years ago | pl

    The certainty of death in the future should be the motivation to live on the present.

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  • Jirgee
    8 years ago | pl

    Thinking of death is normal bcoz sooner or latter we're all going to die.But I do think of death as much as you do,but what's more important is the state of heart at which we die in.

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  • Doktor_Hildred_Von_Steinmann
    8 years ago | pl

    This is why I live life without regrets. If you want to do something? Then do it. Life's to short for "what if" moments.

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  • kelili
    8 years ago | pl

    I think about death sometimes too.

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  • Marlboro.Man.Rides.Again
    8 years ago | pl

    Have a Marlboro!

    Marlboro: We're all gonna die anyway.

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  • krazykidd
    8 years ago | pl

    Yes, it's normal. I believe that everyone has experienced those thoughts at least once, including myself. I had never thought too hard about it before a good friend of mine said to me, without any hesitation or doubt, "I know I'm going to die young. Probably before my 30th birthday (he is 23)." Then he went on to explain that his belief stemmed from intuition. That he just "felt it". After that, I thought about it some and remembered being the same way in high school. Then, I was living the fast life doing things I shouldn't have and knew that it would come back for me sooner rather than later. Now, at 22, I figure that thinking about it is pointless because death will come when it comes. There's no point in wasting time thinking about it.

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  • wistfulmaiden
    8 years ago | pl

    I think youre unhealthily obsessed with the subject but I agree with the person who said just try to enjoy life, were all going to die sometime its more about the quality of life than quantity of years. And you cant have a fun life if youre always concerned about dying. Maybe hypnosis would help.

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