Fear and death: how it’s all part of life

For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.”
― Plato, Apology

“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

“You can’t possibly be afraid of death, really, you can only be afraid of life.”
― Carl R. Rogers, Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory

This video is an excerpt from Stephen and Ondrea’s “Couch Talk 15”. Please visit LevineTalks.com for new videos and writings from the Levines.

More exploration of fear and anxiety on Beyond Meds: Fear and anxiety: coping, reframing, transforming…

Books by Stephen Levine:

●  Healing into Life and Death

●  Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying

●  A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

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