Why do I keep feeling like I'm going to die?

[Anonymous]

Okay so as weird as it sounds I've been feeling this for the last few days. I've never had any feelings or thoughts like this either. I'm planning on going to an event next week and a freak accident recently occurred at the same event elsewhere, and the feeling of oh I'll be next keeps coming at me. I'll be picking out my outfit for the day and I'll think I'd better pick a good outfit for when I go to this event because it'll be my last. Does anyone have any advice to stop thinking like this or insight as to why I'm feeling and thinking this way?

[BCRanger10]

Because sooner or later, you will. You don't know when, where, how, or why. But it will happen. My first thought is that you're feeling this way because, simply looking at your age group, you're probably coming to the first true realization that time truly does fly by and you're not in your late teens or early 20s anymore.

What I'd tell you is, first and foremost, make peace with God. A friend of mine posted an image on Facebook recently that said "people who say they will convert at the 11th hour die at 10:30". The thing is, as I already said, you don't know when that is, so don't put it off. So bottom line, get back to church!

Second, live a life of meaning. That means, principally, get married and have a family. Sure, we all have romantic dreams of and longings to travel the world, be a strong leader, or something else like that. But think about it. How many people will really care about your expensive vacations or that you were a CEO? What good is having a body that looks beautiful and healthy if there is no man with whom you will share exclusive bodily rights and subsequently generate children - your true legacy - which is what marriage and sex are objectively meant to do and for what a woman's body is naturally designed?

Lastly, make peace with the knowledge of death. Let that awareness and knowledge, and more importantly, a healthy and informed fear of death drive you towards making better decisions and press through difficult situations (the prison escape scene from The Dark Knight Rises is one of the best that helps truly drive this home). Don't live with crippling anxiety of it, but let it educate and temper you. Don't take foolish and unnecessary risks of any sort, be it with money, your health, your time and energy, or any other significant aspect of your life. You don't to spend your days trying to fix those mistakes or, especially today, dealing with the hurt and anxiety that they might bring.

All that said, I hope you have a wonderful day 😊

[joehypo1]

Well i dont know what event or freak accident happened but i tend to follow a gut feeling mainly because of a incident that happend and i had a gut feeling and my girlfriend at the time kept telling me to drop the whole topic and long story short someone died and i was literally going to help this girl out i was there i was suspisious about the situation and kept telling my girlfriend i was going to go back over to this girls house , the girl was adopted and her adopted mom had her locked up in her house and was starving her and when i was over at the house she made the girl unload something that i was dropoing off and it was heavy and she insisted to have her gave me a bad vibe i could go on and on about the story the girls name was natalie finn and it still bothers me i did not help her mom is in prison now but i stick to my gut feeling after that

[Sour-rose]

Because you will? That ain't nothing but it's like telling trans people the truth, they are what they are born as. Sure, you don't wanna hear reality but that's all there is to it.

You will. And everyone you know, including me will die.

[Asker]

Oh yes that I know. I'm not scared to die I know it'll happen, just the feeling that I'll die at this event is very strange for me. It's very unsettling

[Sour-rose]

:)... well that sounds like a gut feeling that something is wrong. That's all. Listen to it... ooor don't.

[exitseven]

Just be extra careful. Stay away from tall buildings and look both ways before crossing the street. Don't go out alone at night. The feeling will pass but you need to make sure you are alive to see it.

[Asker]

Damn.

[exitseven]

yes, damn but you will be alive to live another day.

[genericname85]

you are going to die. we all do. nobody lives forever xD so do some risk management. what can you reasonably do to prevent dying? and if you're doing these things, then you can be less worried about it.

[Asker]

Makes sense. I know I'm going to die and I'm not really scared of it, but the unsettling feeling I will at this event is very strange for me. I haven't felt like I'm going to this much if that makes sense

[genericname85]

well then do what you can reasonably do to prepare it. and when you did that, then you did all you could so there's nothing else to do. that reduces your thinking about it, cause you already know you did what you could.

[Berethor]

You are still too young to die, you should be talking about something, not thinking about death.

[Anonymous]

Make sure you're wearing clean underpants. Ya know, just in case👍