Do you believe death is a grim experience? If you do, you’re not alone. First Globals are the most likely to believe that death is a grim experience, with 51.5% of First Globals strongly or somewhat agreeing with this statement. But surprisingly, only 34.9% of those over 65 strongly or somewhat agreed that death is a grim experience. Other generations fall in between First Globals and those over 65.
Given that people over 65 are likely to be closer to their own death than younger people, why are younger people more likely to say death is a grim experience? Do you think people become more accepting and less scared of death as they grow older?
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I'm betting it has something to do with their level of "religiosity" as opposed to ours. For them, death is usually introduced by religious leaders. Been awhile since I was in a church but I seem to recall how much they romanticized death. "People fear what they don't understand." The flip side holds true for things people think they know.
Beyond all that, there is the way WE have learned about death. Realism in our games, our movies. We see people getting blown apart. Not very "romantic" if you ask me. Not very desirable. Tales from my brother in Iraq about how he had to gather up the bits and pieces of an enemy combatant after blowing him "to hell" don't make me want to witness it first hand. Photos of real people being burned alive in their cars are not the recruiters friend.
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I'm off topic. Anywho, as to your question: I do not think fear has anything to do with it. We simply lean more toward "reality" than "romantic" (or so we hope)
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I think that as we age, if we want to avoid becoming delusional senior citizens, we have to accept that death is inevitable.
With our parents gone, and our friends beginning to die, death becomes tangible and the idea of it as a "distant, grim nightmare" begins to fade.
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