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The question is why are you so focused on the surrounding things like making a will and "planning" LOL.
Dying isn't a problem, you'd never know it happened. Getting severely burned and having years of medical treatment from a plane crash is much worse (and happened to a family I know in a small plane the idiot husband was piloting in fog)
I don't know a single person who'd prefer the torture of cancer!
Is your personality such that you crave attention? Not being shady just asking.
maybe not as gruesome or likely fatal but I've been freaked out since the 3rd grade about Butch Thorgelson shoving my face into the spigot and knocking my teeth out whenever I use a drinking fountain.
I don't know a single person who'd prefer the torture of cancer!
Agreed...
I've seen what cancer can do... colon cancer took my 63 year old stepmother in 9 months and a 26 year old family friend in just under 18 months. Two beautiful young women shouldn't have had to suffer like that.
I can't think of anything more terrifying than knowing your plane is crashing and plunging down to the earth. Minutes of pure terror. it's not even like a car crash that happens so quickly. No. It's going from 35000 feet to zero feet, knowing that you are about to meet your maker.
If you have cancer, you know you might beat it. If you are going down in a plane, you have such a small chance. Not saying I prefer to have cancer, but there could be a different psychology there. I know a lot of people who have beaten cancer and who actually feel they became better people through all the pain and treatment.
I don't know what it is but every time I look at a plane it freaks me out. Just the massive machinery and the way the windows are all lined up. The wreckage is scary to look at. With a car or train crash there's still a feeling that something can be done. From a philosophical perspective also..Its just so strange to die so...suddenly without much afterthought. You life just ends. And because there are so many with you it makes it stranger. Like why do I work out, or try to meditate when life is so fleeting.
With any other death I don't feel this way. Heart attack, Cancer, even random murder doesn't seem so distressing. I look at the faces of the victims of MH17 often and a strange feeling comes over me/
Actually going in a plane may be good for you, as it simulates intellectual and philosopical thoughts .
I am also scared of falling from the plane and always choose a wing window seat.. But staring in the darkness and emptiness and in the open space during the day is a sight you can never get often..
And If I am eating the business class food in Etihad, Emirates etc , I wouldnt mind even if the plane if diving
I can't think of anything more terrifying than knowing your plane is crashing and plunging down to the earth. Minutes of pure terror. it's not even like a car crash that happens so quickly. No. It's going from 35000 feet to zero feet, knowing that you are about to meet your maker.
I agree that dying in a plane crash is one of the most terrifying ways to die. PSA Flight 182 in San Diego in 1978 has to be one of the most tragic crashes ever.
In addition to an airplane crash a shark attack, an alligator/crocodile attack and a bear attack are on my list of terrifying ways to die.
The great thing about dying in a plane is that whether 5 seconds or 5 minutes of terror is beforehand, you never get to tell the story again.
Therefore, you won't have PTSD or any lingering effects.
So by the time the worst happens - it will be over (in 99.99% of cases).
Chances of dying in a car are much larger than in a plane, or so I have heard.
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