In context of Covid-19, once lock-down is loosened, people forgot (or ignore) precautions within days. How long does ones memory of some events remain?
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Life without death renders 'life' meaningless. Death as the end of natural, corporal life is what make life potentially meaningful. Or to cite the Buddha's wisdom: 'Jack Kornfield, in Buddha’s Little Instruction Book, says, “The trouble is, you think you have time.” In other words, we put off important things, assuming that we can do them later. But there may not be any “later.” Life is short; make good use of it.' https://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/jack-kornfield-the-trouble-is-you-t hink-you-have-time
como siempre, pienso que depende de la persona, de sus experiencias pasadas, de su capacidad para analizar el incidente y seguir adelante, supongo que acá juega un importante papel la resiliencia.
Excellent question and there seems to be a difference between a fear of death and a denial of death where one's existential being about to be terminated. There is an old saying, "there are few atheists when one is at war in a foxhole being bombed"! While death does serve a purpose to give meaning to life, once one is out of the crisis, the mind tends to compartmentalize that death is now "something out there, distant and detached from the new "recovered reality" of now being safe. Repression of one's near-death experience may create an illusion of invulnerability and an increase in "death-defying, risk-taking activities"! Of course, this is not to be generalized to all those who recover from covid-19 as some may have come to terms with death as a reality of life and with equanimity, accepted that having faced death as a real part of their life coming to terms with it and accepted its eventuality in their own resilient way. We are all unique and have our own ways of coping with and integrating existential crisis into and throughout our lives. Living each day as if "already dead" paradoxically could sustain a more fearless vitality of living our lives in more genuine, healthy risk-taking ways with greater resilience and life fulfillment!
Well stated Mr Feeney. Buddhist daily practice meditating on my remains in my coffin is an essential way to substitute reality for the fantasy that death is what happens to others. Slan is Beannacht Philip O'Keeffe PhD
la muerte es un hecho, tan natural es nacer como morir, el problema es que no sabemos cuándo, cómo, ni las circunstancias, mientras más de edad nos agregamos, mientras vemos como la gente que era grande cuando eramos pequeños empieza a morir, uno empieza a tomar consciencia de esa realidad. Diferentes culturas han dado ideas de lo que ocurrirá una vez nos muramos, pero igual, no podemos saber lo que va a suceder, mientras más control creamos tener más sufriremos ante ese hecho. Algunas teorías son tan literaturezcas que no logran minimizar el temor que se tenga, pero, de que va a ocurrir, va a ocurrir, no hay nadie eterno.
Time it self might not be the only thing that help us to overcome the fear of death. I think that it´s the way we look at and think of death that help us overcome the fear. So it´s also about our insight, experience of suffering. Many people think that death is about suffering, but it might not be so. If it is, there are still many ways to deal with death and with the fear, so with time you might experience it differently.
Supongo que todo depende de cómo la persona procesa ese hecho, que es obviamente inevitable.
El objetivo supongo no es luchar contra ese miedo, es cuestión de aceptarlo, no tenemos que hacerlo, pero, si no lo hacemos, nos enfrentamos a mucho sufrimiento, es que nadie nos pidió opinión respecto a ello, pero es un hecho que nadie vive para siempre, así que en vez de invertir el tiempo temiendo, y sufriendo por ello, mejor invertirlo en hacer lo mejor que se pueda para uno y para las personas próximas, así al final, pues nos iremos lo mejor posible. Como leí en algún lado hace algún tiempo
A well live life, is a well taken death
pero fue hace tanto tiempo que no recuerdo las palabras adecuadas , de toda formas, una vida bien vivida, pues lleva a la paz a la hora de la hora, especialmente cuando ya tenemos una edad en que puede suceder en cualquier momento.
I have seen people becoming COVID +ve with initial fears which abate over time in 2-4 days because of proper information and networking with medical team.They overcome their fears once they are ok.So facing fears of death has to be looked on emotional and cognitive angles.Cognitive Behaviour therapy works in cases when fears become intense and cripples life.
They remain as long as you deem them necessary. People who forget have allowed themselves to believe a fun time is better than making sure that they don't end up in a hospital.