HOLY SHIT!!!

Emotion is the fuel of life; no matter how much people want to deny it, emotion is the driving force that dictates peoples actions. Negative emotions often carry the most influence, emotions such as greed, hate, fear and pain. Fear is particularly powerful due to the fact that it has so many complicated dimensions. Fear is connected to many different emotions and feelings; fear is connected to pain, which is in turn connected to death, which is the gateway to the unknown, God and ultimately eternity.
All fear can be traced to pain, not only physical pain but emotional pain as well (“Fear“). Some common fears include the fear of heights, which is the fear of falling and getting hurt, the fear of dogs, which is the fear of a dog hurting you, and the fear of fire, which is the fear of getting hurt by a burn. Each of these fears is the result of a fear of physical pain. Most fears are quite rational, such as driving fast, or working with electricity, because it is quite likely that pain or even death would be involved if either of those things were done incorrectly. Many fears are irrational, such as the fear of beards, tables or any other random harmless objects, but even with those fears the fear is somehow connected to a fear of physical pain, like a person that is afraid of chickens may have been hurt by a chicken as a child. Another type of pain that is just as, if not more, feared as physical pain is mental or emotional pain. Some may ask, “If all fear is connected to pain, then why would someone be afraid of being burglarized when they’re not even at home?”, because if someone has something stolen, he may be afraid of the burglar returning when he is home, that is the fear of physical pain, but what is more likely is that he is afraid of the emotional pain of loss, anger, hate and helplessness that come with being victimized by theft. Perhaps if the rather uncomfortable feeling pain brings was not accompanied by a fear of death, we could ignore more of it, but it is, fear is woven together with this mysterious thing called death.
As seemingly simple as death itself is, it comes in multiple forms and is connected to different forms of fear, physical and emotional. The most easily recognized and accepted form of death is physical death, which is connected to the fear of physical pain. When someone is unexpectedly pricked with a needle or has a hair pulled a fairly normal reaction to that sensation is a yelp or a small scream. That scream is probably not a reaction to the pain but a reaction of fear, the body feels the pain and the subconscious automatically goes through a list of possible causes of that pain (DeBecker 13). A pinprick could mean the injection of an unhealthy substance or the opening of a wound that could potentially become infected; a hair pulled could mean the prescence of an unwelcome person or thing that could potentially cause more pain. With proper warning, most people will have a much smaller reaction to the pain because they would recognize that there is no risk of death or continued injury because they know what’s going on. If there is still a reaction it’s probably because the amount of pain caused was more than the recipient expected and the brain is calculating what that could mean. So when the body reacts to the pain in fear, the cause is that the body is calculating the risk of a fatal episode due to that pain.->
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<-The danger sensor of a person are programmed during childhood, a baby is born with several warning signals hardwired into their brains including fears of discomfort or sudden changes in surroundings. As a child grows the original warning sign begin to change and increase in complexity. A child will develop fears based on observation, like a child will see someone fall and get hurt and may develop a fear of heights, or will watch a scary movie and develop a fear of the dark. At some point the child will stop developing as many new fears and will begin rationalizing some fears and discarding others, a child will realize that falling from a high place is not common and will lose their fear of heights or will relize that the reasons for having a fear of the dark are chiefly fictional; the amount of fear connected to certain things are given their place as one grows and calculates the probability of that thing or situation being harmful. Most irrational fears are developed because a fear will be developed that would usually be considered highly frightening it usually means that as a child that person probably witnessed that particular thing performed safely enough times to be unaware of the danger (Gillham).
Another form of death that is not quite as widely accepted and realized as physical death is emotional death. People fear emotional pain because it can seriously injure their emotional stability. If someone experiences too much emotional pain, they may have the risk of having an emotional breakdown. In the event of a severe mental or emotional breakdown, a person can experience so much emotional pain that they wish for physical death, suicide. Even though the emotional pain did not physically kill the person, it might as well have, therefore emotional death. Man fears pain because pain warns man of death, but why does man fear death so fervently, what makes death so scary?
When someone walks into an unfamiliar dark room, he is always a little frightened. There could be something dangerous hiding in the darkness of the room, or there could be a stool near the door that he could trip over, or it may just simply be an empty room, the fact is that he really does not know and can not know until he flips the light switch so he can see the contents of the room, and at that point his fear will either be relieved or greatly worsened. Death is like the light switch, everyone is afraid of when it will be flipped because they can never tell what will happen when it does. Death, eternity, the ultimate unknown, there are many ideas about what eternity is, many believe in heaven and hell, others may believe in reincarnation, while others doubt that there is any existence an after life of any kind. With heaven and hell comes God, the ruler of the known and unknown and as such He is the connection between life and eternity. God is feared for many reasons, some fear Him because they do not know Him, and do not know His power and therefore fear Him because he cannot be controlled. Many fear, not God, but the question of weather He exists or not. Those who do know him fear Him because they know His power and it is human nature to fear absolute power (Holy Bible, Matt. 10.28). On the other side of eternity there is Satan and hell. Hell is the ultimate fear, when people are worrying about what eternity is, no matter what they call it, hell is what they worry about. The big question that is asked by all man kind is what to believe: Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, New Age? That question has driven men to madness and entire nations to war but God tells us that that love and faith overcomes all fear (Holy Bible, John. 5.18).
Fear is man’s warning of pain, pain is man’s warning of death and death is man’s way into the next step of existence, so it seems that man is afraid of taking the next step. All fear can be traced to pain, both emotional and physical. Both physical and emotional pain are warning signals to alert the body of the possibility of death. Death is man’s passage to God and eternity. It appears that the reason that man is so afraid of death is that he simply doesn’t want to take the next step.