Hello, Nice to meet you
I empathise massively with how your feeling when I was little I was petrified of dying I spent a lot of time in hospital with serious illnesses that could have killed me and so I became super anxious ans wouldn’t go out and do anything for fear of getting hurt. I am now 33 and based on a variety of incidents (most notably my mum dying) I am now the opposite way I don’t fear death at all, I have no fear at all because inevitably it will happen to me one day anyway.
You may be thinking - this message isn’t helping at all why is he posting this. Here it is life is incredibly short and when I was little I lost a lot of my time hiding away and missing out on opportunities and as such you could argue that I was wasting a time that I’ll never get back, if you sit at home fearing death it will haunt you and your life will be wasted not taking opportunities because of fear, you’re young go out, have experiences, make friends be happy! And just to say, it’s natural to fear death it’s what keeps us safe, but heres the thing the fear of death is actually the fear of the unknown people are scared of it because nobody knows for certain what happens when you die, I believe you live a
nd you die you’re not aware of it you become nutrients in the earth and get absorbed by plants and essentially carry on like that, others believe your reincarnated, others believe you go to heaven - anyone of these could be true nobody knows - it would be easy be for me to say “don’t fear death” but it wouldn’t be fair because I’ve been their and I know how it feels - what I would say though is please live your life don’t live in fear, because if you live your life in fear you’re not really living and are experiencing what it’s like to be dead anyway - try and go out and meet or do at least one thing a day! I’m sorry you’re so worried about it - sending you a hug

sorry if the above is not helpful I was just typing and thinking at the same time X
edit: also I agree with hello513, just because the average life expectancy is lower doesn’t mean you won’t live to 110 you could be one of the extraordinary people who surpass expectations so you may very well outlive us all!

