Are you afraid of death?

[Coordinate_Apotheosis]

I think...We all start out fearing Death.

The grim reaper with scythe in hand to harvest the plant of life, you.

When we stop fearing the reaper, we stop fearing the mystery of death.  The unknown, the perceived loss of life.

Instead, then comes the other fears to cover that now exposed base called Death.  It has Pain.  Pain of others, pain of self.

I lie, I say I am not afraid of death, but of the pain that comes with death to myself and others.  In truth, I fear death and dying.

I fear it for the change to me it incites.  I fear it for the pain.  I fear it for its inevitability.  But I fear it most of all, because I love myself...And I don't want to die and become who I was, I don't want to die and go away, despite at times wanting to in order to stop the suffering.  I don't want to change.

Hopefully by the time I die, I'll be so loving and caring, that I won't be able to distinguish myself from my self in death.  I'll just be myself, and enjoy, and continue on, if I'll be anything at all.

I think people who say they don't fear death but the pain of death, are hiding their true human feelings on the matter.  Death and dying are the same.  Even peaceful death brings pain to others, pain you'll know of as if it were your own.

I fear death, yet I'd die for what I believe in, I just would be estranged and greatly in turmoil as to what to do.  To die for something greater than I, or to live to be more as I already am?

Is there really a wrong choice?