Not the suicidal aspect of it, nor the Grim Reaper form of death, just dying as it is in general. Nearly every night I would sleep on my pillow of tears with a fully loaded army of morbid thoughts bombarding my bedtime as a child. Thoughts that one day I would no longer see the sunrise anew, I will stop breathing this air, no longer walk the streets in this world, and people will forget who I was, unless I made it into the history textbooks at school. The notion that my days alive will end and the hourglass will let down the last grains of sand to my life. I would spend my days being cautiously inside and do my best in avoiding dangerous activities like touching the ocean water at the beach or letting the sun contact my skin for too long, I was essentially paranoid of …show more content…
But how do you overcome this fear of death? It is impossible to face death so that is out of the question. Encountering a near death experience sounds like it would only make matters worse. Encourage myself to die; chances are I wouldn 't live to see the results. Being around death to get use to it, seems defective already. The solution of getting rid my fear seemed scarce, basically impossible. I have never had anyone in my existing life pass away and without delay would wish in every coin tossed into the fountain to avoid that from happening. Despite that inevitable law of the cycle of life, it isn 't something a wish can prevent from