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But I think about it sometimes, and try to consider the fact that I will die one day- and that is could be tomorrow even- and see how this effects me.

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Funny as it may sound, I think it is more the way I die that I fear, than the concept of dieing itself.

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Which just leads me to thinking I don't really believe my own philosophy and I fear death.

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If you beleive in a philosophy it isn't true its just mental
You have to realize it with your entire being by finding out what 'I' is

I'm only being so direct, not to be rude, but as your already obviously open to advaita/vedantic teachings then stop messing about & realize what the Sages realized by realizing what 'I' is

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Lakefingers said:
Yes, some (many? almost all?) of us want to get out and do a lot while we're in this format called living human.

Others want to turn it away and prepare for a happy death.

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To fear death, gentleman, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know

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shivas.wisdom said:
If you have read Phaedo you would understand the context of that quote- I think it is very fitting, something to think about.

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Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good, for one of two things: - either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by the sight of dreams, death will be all unspeakable gain. For if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man, I will not say a private man, but even the great king will not find many such days or nights, when compared with the others. Now if death is like this, I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night. But if death is the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead are, what good, O my friends and judges, can be greater than this? If indeed when the pilgrim arrives in the world below, he is delivered from the professors of justice in this world, and finds the true judges who are said to give judgment there, Minos and Rhadamanthus and Aeacus and Triptolemus, and other sons of God who were righteous in their own life, that pilgrimage will be worth making. What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again. I, too, shall have a wonderful interest in a place where I can converse with Palamedes, and Ajax the son of Telamon, and other heroes of old, who have suffered death through an unjust judgment; and there will be no small pleasure, as I think, in comparing my own sufferings with theirs. Above all, I shall be able to continue my search into true and false knowledge; as in this world, so also in that; I shall find out who is wise, and who pretends to be wise, and is not. What would not a man give, O judges, to be able to examine the leader of the great Trojan expedition; or Odysseus or Sisyphus, or numberless others, men and women too! What infinite delight would there be in conversing with them and asking them questions! For in that world they do not put a man to death for this; certainly not. For besides being happier in that world than in this, they will be immortal, if what is said is true.

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Icelander said:
As I've said, once you get past the fear of death or dying it looks like pretty clear sailing.

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I've dealt a lot with death in my life, from watching it in wars to experiencing it first hand to a few of my family members. It's a learning experience nonetheless. Those events have just shown me that Death is just another part of the process. Its inevitable. Its just the dropping away of Form. The elements will still be there, still the same as they were before, then and after. I just have some attachment right now to 'personality', and one day I won't. I've seen too many 'personalities' ceasing to exist with their physical forms. I didn't have understanding of my Self before I was in this vessel and may or may not care afterwards. Plus I just don't care where I go after this existence.

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burgatory said:
We're all eternal beings, you are your soul not your body.

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