Rational Fears

glassyo

Mine is tripping or stumbling when I'm out walking and giving myself a concussion or cracking my skull open.

amorfati601070

Depends...most things with the result in death are probably not actually that rational. Why does it even matter what eventually causes you to kick the bucket...?We’re all gonna die anyway so it doesn’t make sense to be afraid of it. Perhaps having a painful “dying” is rational to fear .., I’m not afraid of dying, I just don’t wanna be there when it happens

Hmm maybe, being ignorant, dying alone and not having a legacy but again depending what you believe in.Once youre dead even that doesn’t matter.

Being rendered in a vegetative state, one so bad where I lose all my senses and ability to think is one of my worst fears. Just kill me please, I’ve got my advance directive ready.

pizzamyheart

Going camping, finally having a Bigfoot invade the campground only to have him see me, and the weight ive gained, then hear him say "nah, not worth the effort" as he stalks off. And I can't find my phone to take a pic until hes a blur in the distance.

KosmosKitten

Behindblue_eyes wrote: »

CanesGalactica wrote: »

ArmyVeteranM1A1C wrote: »

Fire

All accounts make it sound like a very terrible way to go. **shudder**

ColdDawning wrote: »

Getting alzheimer's or some other form of dementia. Just living and knowing that pieces of you are vanishing sounds terrifying to me. I rather die young as myself than old and lost.

I feel this one. Multiple family members have succumbed to Alzheimer's and I have had to watch each and every one of them slowly deteriorate into someone unrecognizable and fearful. I'm more afraid of my father ending up with it than myself (I was adopted and have no knowledge regarding my medical history), but honestly? IF I had to choose between dying of Alzheimer's and dying from ANYTHING else, I would choose the anything else. And I mean that sincerely.

I care for people with Alzheimer's/Dementia. I sometimes think this disease is harder on the loved ones. I've watched an elderly man look his daughter right in the eye and ask her who she was...my heart just aches for everyone that has to endure this disease.

I used to care for them when I was younger as a volunteer. I thoroughly enjoyed my time reading to them and doing artsy stuff, but sometimes, there would be certain moments of clarity the patients would have and you could see the physical embodiment of their mental prison in those moments.

The eyes truly are windows to the soul, even when that soul isn't always lucid or present 100% of the time.

I can't disagree with you, though. The families suffer tremendously because they don't forget, the person with Alzheimer's will.

KosmosKitten

pizzamyheart wrote: »

Going camping, finally having a Bigfoot invade the campground only to have him see me, and the weight ive gained, then hear him say "nah, not worth the effort" as he stalks off. And I can't find my phone to take a pic until hes a blur in the distance.

Okay, this made me laugh. Thanks. :laugh:

Motorsheen

What everyone fears...

monkeys stealing hubcaps

cdubks88

I live in a small town and run through the town out into the county.....we've had sightings of mountain lions in the area.....

I run with at least a somewhat larger-than-a-pocket-knife on my hip in the freakish case I have to defend myself.

That and the junkyard dogs....holy cow......

GymGoddessGoals

Tripping, falling, losing my balance. Ever since I broke my back and had to have surgery, I am terrified of falling again.

blondeandfeistyAF13

My car falling off a bridge and drowning . . .

So I guess that I am going to go with that car group too

your_future_ex_wife

idk if this belongs in this thread or not. I guess it depends on whether or not you think it likely.

i fear doing something irreversible. *kitten* up my kids or hitting a pedestrian or murder. Something I can’t take back

KosmosKitten

your_future_ex_wife wrote: »

idk if this belongs in this thread or not. I guess it depends on whether or not you think it likely.

i fear doing something irreversible. *kitten* up my kids or hitting a pedestrian or murder. Something I can’t take back

If it's irrational, then we both share it. I'm super terrified of this.

Motorsheen

your_future_ex_wife wrote: »

idk if this belongs in this thread or not. I guess it depends on whether or not you think it likely.

i fear doing something irreversible. *kitten* up my kids or hitting a pedestrian or murder. Something I can’t take back

murder, huh ?





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JeromeBarry1

mtndewme wrote: »

Being taken out by ninja.

So your rational fear is of sushi?

JeromeBarry1

Motorsheen wrote: »

The Earth getting sucked in to a Super Massive Black Hole.





.... and Safeway running out of chunky peanut butter.


both could happen.



although, admittedly... not at the same time.

An article on Arxiv was recently featured on, I think, sciencedaily, postulating with mathematical reality that the unfound-as-yet Planet 9 responsible for the odd orbits of several Oort cloud members is actually a PBH, or primordial black hole which has been in a binary system with our Sun all this time without sucking us to our doom.

Motorsheen

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

Motorsheen wrote: »

The Earth getting sucked in to a Super Massive Black Hole.





.... and Safeway running out of chunky peanut butter.


both could happen.



although, admittedly... not at the same time.

An article on Arxiv was recently featured on, I think, sciencedaily, postulating with mathematical reality that the unfound-as-yet Planet 9 responsible for the odd orbits of several Oort cloud members is actually a PBH, or primordial black hole which has been in a binary system with our Sun all this time without sucking us to our doom.

okay.....


so, it's only a matter of time ?

comforting.




my advice, stock up on Chunky Style Peanut Butter from Safeway.

mtndewme

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

mtndewme wrote: »

Being taken out by ninja.

So your rational fear is of sushi?

?

cdubks88

CanesGalactica wrote: »

ArmyVeteranM1A1C wrote: »

Fire

All accounts make it sound like a very terrible way to go. **shudder**

ColdDawning wrote: »

Getting alzheimer's or some other form of dementia. Just living and knowing that pieces of you are vanishing sounds terrifying to me. I rather die young as myself than old and lost.

I feel this one. Multiple family members have succumbed to Alzheimer's and I have had to watch each and every one of them slowly deteriorate into someone unrecognizable and fearful. I'm more afraid of my father ending up with it than myself (I was adopted and have no knowledge regarding my medical history), but honestly? IF I had to choose between dying of Alzheimer's and dying from ANYTHING else, I would choose the anything else. And I mean that sincerely.

I'm going through this with my dad right now. It's a terrible thing to have to witness. I know it's my dad, but it's not my dad if you know what I mean.

His care is not at all what I have issue with. I'll take care of him as long as I possibly can and try to preserve our family home for him. I'll do whatever I have to. It's as much a part of his legacy as our family is - a simple guy who grew up a farmer in a family of 12 kids from small town Midwest who worked his whole life to be better and provide.

Watching him go from that man - the man I knew him to be - to being so helpless.....it's a really tough thing to go through. He's not reached that break point where he doesn't know us yet....but I fear it's coming sooner than we think.

KosmosKitten

cdubks88 wrote: »

CanesGalactica wrote: »

ArmyVeteranM1A1C wrote: »

Fire

All accounts make it sound like a very terrible way to go. **shudder**

ColdDawning wrote: »

Getting alzheimer's or some other form of dementia. Just living and knowing that pieces of you are vanishing sounds terrifying to me. I rather die young as myself than old and lost.

I feel this one. Multiple family members have succumbed to Alzheimer's and I have had to watch each and every one of them slowly deteriorate into someone unrecognizable and fearful. I'm more afraid of my father ending up with it than myself (I was adopted and have no knowledge regarding my medical history), but honestly? IF I had to choose between dying of Alzheimer's and dying from ANYTHING else, I would choose the anything else. And I mean that sincerely.

I'm going through this with my dad right now. It's a terrible thing to have to witness. I know it's my dad, but it's not my dad if you know what I mean.

His care is not at all what I have issue with. I'll take care of him as long as I possibly can and try to preserve our family home for him. I'll do whatever I have to. It's as much a part of his legacy as our family is - a simple guy who grew up a farmer in a family of 12 kids from small town Midwest who worked his whole life to be better and provide.

Watching him go from that man - the man I knew him to be - to being so helpless.....it's a really tough thing to go through. He's not reached that break point where he doesn't know us yet....but I fear it's coming sooner than we think.

**hugs** My grandmother went from the kindest, sweetest lady who taught me crochet and never said a violent or mean word about anyone to a cursing, screaming angry beast at only 98 pounds. And oddly, the only family member she would ever let near her was my stepmother and myself. I ended up being the only grandchild she remembered by name until the end and the only one she was never overtly violent toward. It was... tough. Definitely.

She took over a decade to get from the point of us knowing she had Alzheimer's to her becoming that person I mentioned, though. She lived to be 96, was only diagnosed in her 80s, but my grandad suspected before that and never pressed her to go see anyone about it. Then again, he never pressed himself to go get checked out for unusual issues and ended up dying from colo-rectal cancer.