Fear of Death

Hello,

I have a generalised anxiety disorder.

Since my father died I fear that something terrible will happen, but how can I accept death as a part of live? How can I let go? How can I see death as something "normal"?

Greetings

I've had a fear of death for as long as I can remember and I think when my father died when I was 11 is what initially triggered it. It doesn't help that I have OCD and easily obsess about things either. One thing that helps me though is to think of how things need a balance. Everything does. We need contrast in life otherwise we would never appreciate anything. What is the sun without the dark clouds and stormy weather? What if we were always laughing? Laughing would become the new normal and the good feelings that come along with it would not be the same. I think of the odds that I would even be alive, that I get this chance to be here for a while and experience this, the good and the bad. It's scary and terrifying to think of not being here any longer and things moving on even without us here, but it's beautiful at the same time because we can appreciate the time we have here so much more knowing that it won't last forever and we can appreciate the people we care about even more knowing this as well. If we did have forever, we'd probably never do anything that we truly wanted, or at least we wouldn't push as hard to because we'd know that time wasn't an issue. I hope you will be able to come to terms with it. It is a very normal and natural thing.