User blog comment:Holly Bailey/Thing I'm Afraid Of/@comment-27905100-20170213152025/@comment-28266772-20170214111715

Who says the two aren't dependent on each other, you?

You've stated this wildly counter-intuitive position regarding death, fear and perception, arguing that perception of a stimuli and the emotional response to the stimuli are independent of one another (going against all emotional research I have ever encountered in six years of research) but why? Why are the two independent? Because you said so?

I would accept the position that neither of us can know the exact experience someone has at the moment of true death but I refuse to believe that you are somehow privileged to this magical information when no one else is. Nor do I believe you have the capacity or the right to dictate the subject to myself or others with such poignant philosophical musings as "every fear start from death".

For what it's worth though, the evidence overwhelmingly supports the position thatfear is related to perception (read the first line; it's familiar enough to me from the eight or so text books I've read during my post graduate education but if you're particularly pedantic I could dig an academic source up in no time), and that many cultures interpret death differently.

Which I suppose brings me to the crux of this argument - learn the difference between an opinion, or personal evaluation, and an argument.