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Originally Posted by Cantando  Yes, you probably will.
To prevent fear from taking hold, you will cling to those good things you were given in your childhood which made you feel safe and strong. |
Two things about that, Cantando:
One: the myths that adults used to control me with when I was a child (Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Jesus, threats of pregnancy from holding hands)
never made me feel safe or strong. Instead, they caused anxiety, resentment, and a sense of betrayal from being lied to and manipulated. When faced with death, I hope to remain present to, and to be satisfied and fulfilled by, what is real in my life. Because I won't know how I'll be on death's door until it happens, I live my life committed to being present in the moment now. Which leads me to:
Two: one of the things I find most obnoxious about religious proselytizers is their smug presumptions of deathbed conversion and what happens in the afterlife. Since we can't know with any certainty about such things, even for ourselves, I prefer that people keep their fantasies, delusions and religious convictions in the realm of personal belief, rather than Universal Truth. If it's yours, that's fine; please do not assign your dogma to me.