Theists - why are humans afraid of death?

[not your typical...]

Personally I think that those who find comfort in the idea of living forever don't really know what 'forever' means. Forever. For ever and ever and ever as in never ending, permanent, eternal and infinite.

Not the kind of 'forever' used in everyday language.

Someone else who gets that forever is proabaly the only scary thing about death. If you could die and per say, go to hell for 80 years, but then come back and just live again, then I don't think anyone would fear death. In fact, they might begin to fear life.

[Sweetdeath]

XD this is why I shall harnest the power of the pilosipher stone. I'll give you a bottle of elixier, Oldgit. <3

[Asmodean]

Personally I think that those who find comfort in the idea of living forever don't really know what 'forever' means. Forever. For ever and ever and ever as in never ending, permanent, eternal and infinite.

Not the kind of 'forever' used in everyday language.

...And that, my friends, is an awfully long time to be alive. Imagine after "half a forever", that you have seen everything you consider worth seeing and done everything worth doing and are deathly bored... Only you can't die - you still have the rest of forever to go.

[Siz]

Personally I think that those who find comfort in the idea of living forever don't really know what 'forever' means. Forever. For ever and ever and ever as in never ending, permanent, eternal and infinite.

Not the kind of 'forever' used in everyday language.

Agreed.

This is surely the definition of hell for me.

[Sweetdeath]

Btw, Asmo, why are some user icons bigger suddenly? XD

[Davin]

Btw, Asmo, why are some user icons bigger suddenly? XD

Because they just increased the allowed size from 65x65 to 130x130.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

 Satan shall walk abroad and there may be scattered showers in the afternoon.

[Too Few Lions]

Personally I think that those who find comfort in the idea of living forever don't really know what 'forever' means. Forever. For ever and ever and ever as in never ending, permanent, eternal and infinite.
Not the kind of 'forever' used in everyday language.

Agreed.
This is surely the definition of hell for me.

Me and a few friends put Zardoz on at an independent cinema the weekend before last, it has exactly that theme (amongst many about religion, genetics, evolution and history!) It has a society of people who are immortal and are just plain bored of it, and crave death and release, and their saviour is someone who they bring into their society to kill them all. Like you said, people really haven't quite thought about what eternity means.

[not your typical...]

Me and a few friends put Zardoz on at an independent cinema the weekend before last, it has exactly that theme (amongst many about religion, genetics, evolution and history!) It has a society of people who are immortal and are just plain bored of it, and crave death and release, and their savior is someone who they bring into their society to kill them all. Like you said, people really haven't quite thought about what eternity means.

Sounds interesting. I think I'll check it out.