I don't fear death...And I don't believe in an afterlife....I'm a stage IIIB cancer patient in remission so I have had my dance with death. I made peace with it. No heaven, no hell, no God or angels or devils....just peaceful nothingness. I'm cool with that. Makes the here and now much less convoluted. My oncologists claim that religous folks have a higher cancer mortality rate though....they tend to give up easier.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33717103 Thank you for your contribution, and bless you for what you have gone through. You are fully entitled to your opinion, and given how you described it, far be it for me to call into question or in any way refute what you have said.
What I will say is that my own brush with death went much differently. I was in Iraq in 2003, and was driving a fuel truck in a convoy to resupply American and British Marines in Basra. We were ambushed in a town just South of where we were heading to, and what happened can only be described as pure terror.
I was so afraid that I closed my eyes and laid my foot to the floor to get the hell out of there. When I finally opened my eyes and we were past the ambush site, I took inventory of what I had just been through and I thanked God that I made it through without a scratch. I do not know what I did to deserve a second chance at life, but what I do know is that I really and truly believe that God was with me during that experience.
Beyond the fear and human emotion, there was a certain point when I let go of trying to control the situation, and I gave all of my will and control over to God. I immediately felt an intense feeling of peace and tranquility, more powerful than any I had ever or since experienced.
I knew at that point that God was helping me, and I had absolutely no doubt about that.
