When will you die? Im the internet ill tell you!

We all wonder when we will die. How will it happen? Will it hurt? What happens next? (If anything) will I be old?. These questions, we have all at some point naturally contemplated, and perhaps it is these questions that are the catalysts for our fear of death. Or maybe, its not the questions but rather the lack of answers.

But then came along the wonderful world wide web offering us various sites that claim to hold the ability to tell us not just our day of death but even the exact time (http://www.deathclock.com) (http://www.findyourfate.com/).

Have a go! All you have to do is answer a series of questions on your diet, lifestyle and health . Then the omniscient computer will calculate the day of your death, to the very second !. The popular death clock has been online now for nearly ten years doing its part to take the guesswork out of dying, yet the techniques used to determine the exact time of death are less than scientific. Its actually quite simple when I type in that I do smoke rather than I do not, I get an extra few years added on. Makes sense to me ! So are the sites telling us anything new.? Or even anything relevant?

I have always thought that you can never predict ones death, well unless your in the position of aiding them in it, or pointing a gun at them. So how would these sites know such information based on my basic lifestyle. They don’t know if I am going to be hit by a bus tomorrow. My date shows ( when I answered the questions honestly) October 12th 2067. That’s fine with me, ill be a senior citizen by then. But what about if it didn’t say that , if it said tomorrow or next week? Would I quit my job, tell my boss what I really think of him, not do my homework, throw my dissertation in the river and many other things. And then what if I never died on the day predicted?. Not only would I be left feeling somewhat foolish, I would have a lot of making up to do. In this sense the site becomes very dangerous. The computer claims to be God and this itself is enough to outrage any religion. It is taking away our vulnerability of not knowing and asserting a hierarchal state of knowledge. Why would God tell death clock when I am to die and not me? Death for many people is a serious issue and surely its not right that the internet and such sites have the authority to exploit and mock a topic that to many is very agonizing and profound. Its all very insincere !

Not only will such sites remind you of how short life is , it is the hour glass of the net, a morbid and pointless underbelly. The death clock does assert, right at the bottom of its page that ‘ this is for entertainment only, and we are strongly against anyone taking serious actions based on the result-date of death’ - Yet who is getting entertainment out of this? The producers maybe, laughing at a nation so consumed by their fear of death, that they play on it and ultimately profit from it.

Many sites will additionally predict the deaths of well known celebrities. Others will give you the opportunity to guess the date of their death and view other pre-condolences (http://www.whenwillamywinehousedie.com) (http://www.whenisbritneygoingtodie.com). Is there such a thing as prediction of death? Doctors predict the day a baby will be born so why not why they will die? The answer - unlike birth death is unpredictable, it can creep up on you at any time with little if any warning. When I looked at these sites, I felt sorry for the celebrities at the brunt of the producers jokes, I wouldn’t like hundreds of people to guess when I will die, and why would they want too? .

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows

Welcome to my somewhat morbid, sadistic yet controversial blog page. This is my inital posting. Yet don't despair !. Over the next few months, i will be providing you with much to think about in terms of your death! How nice for you. I want to blog something which was not merely relevant to myself. To people of my age group, or to a niche audience. Rather i want us to explore and debate an issue relevant too all people and all religions, a topic fastly approaching us all ..... Death ! Death is one of the greatest mysteries of all and consequently, many fear its inescapable grip. It is without doubt a universial phenomena with unkwown variables. Death, like taxes is unavoidable, and since we have never died before, we don't know what to exspect

Overcoming the fear of Death

What intrigues us about death is that its scary. The images that it conjures up such as the grim reaper, graveyards and so on personify death and make it distasteful to man. Yet many people will claim that they fear death and dying. But why? And how can this be overcome?.

Numerous websites claim that they can help people overcome this fear of death. (http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/fear-of-death/asp) Offering a life time guarantee, and a success rate of 100%, the CTRN (change thats right now)a non-religious organisation, does not use hypnosis, but rather trains the unconcious mind to feel safe and teaching it to respond appropiately, in a sense cultivating positive minds.

Other sites (http://www.wikihow.com/overcomethefearofdeath.com ) also approach the fear of death as a condition often terming it as 'thantaphobia'. Once this idea is established, such sites do well in 'cashing in' on the 'death race'. Providing home study CD programs and working largely through telephone conversations with their so-called 'patients', these sites become the death industry!

Fair enough this phobia may cause countless people restless distress but i urge

Is it not ethically and morally wrong to make money out of ones fears? especially the fear of death?

This is why i have set up this blog to question this fear of death, its origions, existence and even future! To explore who is responsible? and probably conciously or unconciously altering the readers fears of the life herafter and the dreaded unknown.