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I mean, God's judgment is pretty scary, lol. Without taking Hell into consideration, If even He thinks I'm a cunt then there's no way around it, and that's a big blow to one's self-esteem!

In this world... probably my wife dying early. I'd rather die before her like most men do, and perhaps I could tolerate her going first and me waiting some a year or so, heartbroken and fading, but anything else is just too much. 😔

I’m not scared of being dead, I’m scared of being maimed

The thing that scares me the most is a clean windshield on my car.

Don't get me wrong. I hate having dirt on the windshield. However, I remember a time when in summer I was in a constant battle to clean spattered insects off my windshield. Now I almost never hit an insect.

I haven't moved. I still drive on the same roads I used to drive on. Either the insects have evolved to avoid roads, or they just aren't there anymore.

Life on this planet is dying out, and we're using all our technology and all our resources to allow us to pretend it isn't. Eventually, the extinction will outpace our ability to compensate, and we'll all start dying along with everything else.

I don't actually believe life will cease completely. I think when enough people have died, they planet will recover. However, the millennia between the crash and the recovery will be unpleasant for anyone who manages to survive long enough to experience it. And the deaths of those who don't survive long enough will be horrifying.

The world around me becoming dystopian like in The Handmaid's Tale. Ignorant people laugh at that because it's fiction but, like all dystopian fiction, it's based on things that have actually happened in history. There's little stopping it from happening again. The country right next door to mine is already on the path to it. Some say my country isn't far behind. There are people in Canada who support Trump

Loneliness. Without my wife or dog, I would descend into a most dark place.

Being trapped in a country that descends in to rampant transphobia

Severe physical pain. I'm not really afraid of death, however a gruesome and painful leadup to death is what scares me the most

Fear? I'm already at the acceptance level for not having done shit with my life, and I'm fine with that. I have been happy and I've seen the world and I've done all the things and if other people gonna judge me because I didn't do the same dumb shit that they did and now hate their lives and are massively in debt and worked their whole existence away, too bad.

Drowning in a small space like underwater caving. I'm a bit catastrophic (claustrophobic). Normally no issues with water but the thought of being trapped somewhere small and watching it full up with water terrifies me. Safe to say I am never going caving or swimming in caves.

Oh and the apparently inexorable march towards fascism in the UK and the west is pretty bad too.

Getting to a point of deterioration where suicide becomes a logical choice. That can be health, societal, or environmental.

Watching stuff like the Expanse or the Martian made me realize how much I'm scared of this vast open space. It makes me super uncomfortable to watch those astronauts in these movies often without any form of security doint something outside in space. All I can think of is one tiny asteroid and you are gone. Drifting in this vast empty space, watching all your life control fail over time and just slowly die.
So scary but also veery unlikely to happen to me :D

Tomorrow

What are your three biggest fears?

In all seriousness though, basically this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_climate_change

Sea level rise is already not a question of if but when and how much.

We're seeing evidence now that ocean temperature increase is accelerating, and ocean current patterns which have been stable for the entirety of recorded human history are collapsing. There have been several extreme heat events around the globe this year.

So I guess my fear is that I'll live to see everything descend into bloody, desperate chaos when all the infrastructure we've built fails, and food and water scarcity become a daily concern for the entire population.

Making a small mistake that snowballs into manslaughter.

The destruction of everything I know and love merely due too ignorance, malice and apathy. OH WAIT

Being misunderstood and I am living it everyday (neurodivergent).

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My biggest fear is that people are forgetting how to write actual words.

For a time recently I felt extremely overwhelmed and fearful of the idea that in death there is nothing and your consciousness slips away into a black nothingness and everything I had ever done was completely meaningless and that my existence was for nothing.

Getting excluded from society.

I'm part of a heavily politicised minority, and the possibility of that minority being (quasi)outlawed/societally shunned is real and very scary.

To a degree that scenario feels like a death sentence.

Modern life, with modern politics, has been scary enough that I struggle to imagine what could scare me anymore. I've been homeless three times, I've had friends die young, I've come to a point of acceptance and I'm not sure if it's healthy or a sign of being beaten down so much that acceptance is my cope.

Abandonment, by far. Fun fact: 0 fear of death.

Edit: btw OP, what is your success criteria for life?

The destruction of all life due to a runaway process, e.g. paperclip maximizer or other such maligned goal seeking program

Probably spending the rest of my life alone.

Exactly what I'm living right now, the whole thing.