What is one of your biggest fears? -

[ZeCommissar]

Alright kiwis lets talk about things we REALLY don't want to happen. Whether it's being forgotten, being buried alive, or something simple like not being left alone in a dark room.

Whats one of your biggest fears? A couple of mine are as follows:

This is it guys. Humanity has reached it's technological apex. We will advance in multiple fields until around 2050 or 2xxx and hit a wall, and we are now trapped on this rock until we kill ourselves or the sun does it for us after billions of years of just staring at the stars..... Our best bet is to build a generation ship, but that sounds extremely unreliable especially if the stars in our immediate vicinity don't have any life bearing worlds.

A more personal one is my death will be sudden and unknown. Like getting randomly shot in the back of the head. I want to see it coming and perhaps even fight against it if possible. At the very least go out on my own terms. I don't want to end up like those fuckers on LiveLeak who get hit by a random car going 120 mph.

 

[Sofonda Cox]

Death.

I'm horrified by the idea of being out of control, or worse, of watching my children or partner die before me. So intense and pervasive are these worries, i find myself contemplating suicide to "get it over with" because I'm sick of obsessing about it. The doctors call it "major depressive disorder". I call it existential dread. Call it whatever you like, there is no cure. Even zee shock treatments (ECT). The final option on the table is called "deep brain stimulation". You have to have brain surgery while awake and coherent. The doctors literally poke and prod different spots in your brain to see how you react, and ideally find a way to relieve the symptoms, and install a trigger type deal in there. Its not for the faint of heart. Or control freaks.

 

[I should be working]

Dying alone at age 50 in a pile of my own shit.

 

[Shaved Kiwis]

After my third back surgery the only thing I'm afraid of is being stuck on this fucking planet for yet another decade.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

Death, I guess. My spirit isn't broken completely yet so that might change.

Being alone is another. Watching the rest of my family find partners and start families is rough. I'm not a person who needs a lot of friends, but I really value having a few very close friends and one person I can really unwind and be vulnerable around. As time goes on I find myself growing distant from my friends and my options for relationships dwindle. I'd imagine it's mostly my own fault.

I think losing my closest family members is my biggest fear. They mean the world to me.

 

[PL 001]

Developing some form of dementia. Losing my cognitive abilities, having my personality, the very essence of who I am slowly erased little by little until I'm just a breathing barely conscious slab of meat with occasional lapses of lucidity terrifies me.

If that day ever comes, I'm opting for assisted suicide. I'd rather be dead than live that kind of hell. I've seen what dementia does to people, it's horrifying and heartbreaking.

 

[VIVIIXI]

Immortality.

Jading over millennia would likely lead to humanity engaging in games of escalating cruelty and grotesquery just for the sake of novelty to kill the boredom.

 

[Tahoma]

Specifically not knowing what comes after death.

 

[Chichan]

1. Suffocating or being choked so whenever someone touches my neck I start to become anxious and slightly hyperventilate.
2. Dying in general even though I have had thoughts of suicide.
3. Being forgotten...
4. Regretting life.
5. Drowning because I almost did.
6. Trapped inside a coffin.
7. Ghosts/Demons
8. The ghosts from the grudge/ring it traumatized me.
9. Mediocrity...
10. Poverty again...
11. Cancer or extreme illnesses.
12. Being abducted.
13. Losing myself again.
14. Being abandoned.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Ugh on the dementia, that's a scary scary thing.

My greatest fear is much more mundane, it's heights. I have an unimaginable fear of heights, it's not in my mind, it's deeper and more visceral than that. I really don't like flying, not because I'm afraid of crashing it's just that... what if we get stuck up there? Then what?
I'm also incredibly aware of where I am and my mind is flashing from me looking at the back of a seat, to me looking at myself looking at the back of a seat, to me looking at myself sitting 30,000' up in the air with the sprawling fields of Bohuslän beneath me. Over and over that sequence strobes in my mind and it drives me nuts as I drift away from the only place I know: the ground. You know how in space movies there's always a guy that starts to lose his humanity and sense of self by being that deep into the vast nothingness of space? So far from earth, the earth and the world being our reference of reality, now reality is gone... that's when the space madness hits hard and he gets murderous.

That's me in an airplane, I suffer from early onset space dementia, AMA.

 

[XE 600]

Kiwifarmers, those fuckers are scary.

 

[OG 666]

tornadoes are pretty scary

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

Biggest fear?

That totalitarianism is going to step out fully from behind the curtain and people everywhere will applaud it. At that point humanity won't be worth bringing back from the brink of their self-made hell anymore. Just hit the Delete key at that point and let another species try its hand at the higher evolution lottery.

 

[Slappy McGherkin]

Oddly enough, death doesn't scare or frighten me. When it's my time, it's my time. As I've gotten older, it's simply acceptance of the inevitable. The idea of a long, drawn out, painful path to death bothers me a bit, as I wouldn't want those I love to have witness it and bear my pain. That's what Sig Sauer is for.

But I honestly don't have any recurring deep fear of anything in particular. Perhaps one of my children or pets suddenly dying, which isn't really fear, just a super sad emotional state to even think about.

 

[Midlife Sperglord]

Lying on my deathbed while thinking, "Was that all it was about? So fucking disappointing."

So, yeah, I don't want to regret having a boring and pointless life when I die.

 

[nfys nst]

Syringes. The moment I see a syringe anywhere, I turn into a complete nervous wreck.

My more existential fear is not "making it". I come from a very poor family and I'm the first one in it who can attend an university. It's all on me and I don't want to fail now.

 

[Lucifer's Rectum]

Dying alone, especially because it's basically guaranteed to happen.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

Mrs O'Keefe dying before me.
Fuck is this is a dark thread or what.

Also, getting rated dumb.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Having my anus prolapse.
This isn't even shitposting, that genuinely is terrifying.

 

[Sped Xing]

Outliving my wife