What do people fear most?

I have a lot of fears -- two big ones are something happening to my kids (that I couldn't protect them) and being trapped in a car that has gone underwater. I understand the first being the parent of two young children but the second is not a very logical fear -- we don't live in an area where there are lots of water that I could even end up in with a car. But it's a major fear for some reason.

Marie logic has nothing to do with fear. I know what you mean though!

drownding. I can't stand to have something over my face. When I was little I had to be put to sleep and they put either on a cloth and put that over my nose and mouth, I can still remember it. The doctor told me he was going to let me smell his special perfume and then he slapped that on my face.

thank you Susan

Yes I am terrified of being stuck under water! I am also afraid that I will see someone else go in the water and you have to jump in to save them-that scares me to death!!

Fire

Going off a bridge and being stuck in the car. (I always unbuckle my seat belt when going across bridges.)

something will happen to my kids..but, I trust in God to keep them under His protection.

I only nervous no fear

Hearing one of my children was in a life threatening accident. Or dieing painfully.

Yea me too, Renee.

My greatest fear has been for some time falling into a near death coma as a result of brain cancer, where everyone thinks I´m a vegetable and treats me as such, eventually pulling the plug on me, when the whole time I´m perfectly lucid, aware of what everyone is saying about me, I just have no way to show it, because I have no control over my nervous system, I can´t even make myself cry or blink as they do in the movies. Sort of an update of E.A. Poe´s The Premature Burial.

I started having this fear while I was near death a year and a half ago from a malignant cancerous tumor of the tonsil that spread to my neck and throat, and that miraculously went into remission after an agressive combination treatment of chemo and radiotherapy for ten months and an operation that removed a tonsil, half my lymphatic system and a jugular vein. The fear remained after I got healthy, and I went into a severe depression seven months ago that was finally lifted from me about 10 weeks ago, when the dreams and obsessive thinking about this frightening scenario from a future return of the cancer started to fade away and was replaced by gratitude toward life and a connection with the One.

I fear choking and drowning.

My biggest fear is:

My kids dieing, or even worse - me dieing and not being able to see them grow up.

Absolutely Beautiful, 'John F. Walter'. You are connected to the ONE.

My fears held me captive for 40 years. Panic attacks, Agoraphobia, anxiety. Finally I learned of my SELF, and found I became connected to ONE. I belive we are all One, the spokes on a wheel who is the larger ONE.

Thanks John for you story. Write a book on this.

Incapacity...
being trapped in an immobile body, FAR more than death.

Watching Mom in the last few weeks, she's have wanted me to put her down if I could.

My greatest fear? Simply put, that would be loss of freedom - be it physically, emotionally, mentally, financially, by the government, or by any other means... - to pursue the things necessary to get what I want to be life.

"Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams." -WB Yeats

I am with John and Dean, I have met the worst of my fears, and have survived them, I have watched my loved ones meet their worst fears and lost them, so what else is there left to be afraid of, someone is watching over me, I have no fears, I recall hearing those words spoken by FDR on 12/8/41, The only fear we have is fear itself, at 15, maybe that set my life for me, I don't know.

They say the #1 fear is: public speaking.

My #1 fear used to be dying alone. Now it's heights.

Kate, I used to have that exact same fear!

Now it's of dying and not having touched a single life, or left any kind of positive mark on the my world that I leave behind. I never want to be forgotten...........silly I know!

my biggest fear
is something happening to my son

spiders

Mine are deep water and falling steel. Both based a little in being irrational and more so in actual events. Almost drowned after being threw into 12 feet of water when I was six for the water and had my leg crushed and pinned by 35000 pounds of falling sheet metal about 13 years ago. The irrational part of that one is now that when I am driving and I come up next to a truck load of steel I have this crazy fear that it will fall on me and my car and this need to get past the truck or to stay away from it altogether.
Oh and yes, I also fear that Karl may be right ;-)

As you should, Bob.

Bob, the day Bush was declared the winner in '01, I said to my wife: "Well, the economy is in for a crash and burn" and here we are. I feel like Cassandra, able to see things clearly and no one will listen.

Mine is fo my grandchildren and the kind of world we are leaving them, the things we are not teaching,in our homes and in our schools. And as for what we have done to this planet, well God help them all because not enough of us care to make the kind of changes it's going to take to stop Global Warming, it wll take the whole world getting involved and Idon't see country's like China getting on board. (just to name one) CINDY

I'm afraid of water, but slowly overcoming the fear.
I'm afraid of swimming pools, lakes, rivers, jaccozies, I lived near the ocean but wasn't afraid of that I only went as far as my anchles.

I am afraid of water. I have a fear of driving off a bridge in deep water.

losing my socks... :)

growing old... :(

My biggest two are drowning and having shards of glass fly into my eyes. I can't really explain the last one, but it's a a fear I've had since I started driving at age 16.

Being clusterfobic, I'd hate to go being confined. Like trapped in your car after an accident.

I'm afraid of dying....and my second greatest fear is that my boyfriend will die....in bed next to me....that would totally traumatize me.

Interesting.

If I had fears -- key word being "if" -- I would not confide that information to a complete stranger. Interesting that these people so freely did so. After all, they cannot even see your real face.

Not that I believe you are, but you could very well be Homeland Security or the FBI, or someone even more dangerous, such as an online predator.

I wonder if these people would also tell me where they hide the keys to their home, were I to ask. I'll bet many of them would do just that.

Everybody...... The purpose of this game is to entertain not rob you of information's.

Thank you for sharing your concern...

I have never really thought about it, Jade. Lots of pain before dying I guess.

Having nothing to do.

I don't really know, I'm not scared of dying (seems werid!) I guess you could say I'm scared of spiders, but I just don't like being around spiders and bugs! But I probly agree with William M. the most, When I die, It want it to be quick, not a lot of pain!

Apparently, public speaking is more terrifying to most people than spiders, snakes, or small, dark places. I'm not sure about mine, once I get rid of one I seem to find another...