A Recovery from Faith - On Dying

Forsaking Faith

In this episode, Heather and Christine express their anxieties about death from before and after deconversion. They both talk about how death affected their day-to-day activities as well as their long term goals.

Christine’s fear of martyrdom during her religious journey came from a place of not feeling worthy enough to be in a leadership position. She worried that her faith would be tested through torture because she was so scared of it. However, since she has become an agnostic atheist, she feels better about death and likens it to a permanent but restful sleep.

Heather didn’t have anxieties about dying when she was a believer, but now has a fear of its finality and thinks about it often. The most striking thing to Heather is the idea that she will someday lose her consciousness, and she is most saddened by this. She strives to find peace with her ideas of death.

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