any tips on not thinking about death?

ever since i was little, this idea has been bugging me, and till this day, i'd randomly just start thinking about it and get scared and start crying and having a panic attack. anyone who's gone through this before and can give me tips on how to stop thinking about it? <33

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Thevy29 · 41-45, M

During a family weekend at the beach when I was 5 or 6, I had gone up to camp for a drink and was looking down the hill to see what everyone was doing, a King Brown (Coastal Taipan) slithered across my foot. And after a close encounter with the 2nd most poisonous snake in the world. Death doesn't scare me as much as it should.

Adstar · 56-60, M

@Thevy29 Wow i had a very similar experience with a red bellied black snake when i was about 4 years old.. But i was in a green house sitting against the wall with my older brother, He was about 5/6 years old.. A red bellied black snake come past us and my brother told me to stay still and not to move ( He later told me he said that because thats what he watched on a TV show ) the snake slid over my left and then right toes and kept on going,, touching by brothers left foot and curving off into the ferns..

Abstraction · 61-69, M

@Adstar @Thevy29 I was walking through bush with my wife and there was a steep gully that you had to run down and run up the other side. As I stepped off I heard the whirr of scales and saw it, and pushed my wife backwards but I had already stepped off and couldn't stop. It was directly between my feet as I ran about 10 metres down the steep slope. A 5-6 foot tiger snake - also in the top 10 world's most deadly. No idea how I didn't step on it. I ran half way up the other side away from it but now it was heading directly towards me. My wife thought to mention that also. I thought if it gets closer i can run down again. Then it turned around and slipped into an old car body in the gully.

Abstraction · 61-69, M

@Abstraction And the Brits don't want to come to Australia because of all our poisonous things and I always assure them you won't ever encounter them. :D

Adstar · 56-60, M

@Abstraction I had three close encounters with snakes.. The one i posted above was only the first one.. I lived on a farm near a river i used to go down to the river on hot days for a swim and to build sand castles.. Anyway there was this fence i had to climb over to get to the river.. One day i was climbing up the post of the fence to jump down the other side.. As i was starting to jump down the other side i looked at the ground and i saw another red bellied black snake and at the last moment i push out from the post to get enough momentum to jump over the snake and land on the other side of it.. When i hit the ground i did a roll to get as far from that snake as possible.. I was like a super athletic ninja.. I had that surge of Adrenalin that made me make a super jump and made time seem to slow down heaps..

On another day going down to the same river i had passed the fence and was walking in the longer grass when i stepped on a fully grown Brown snake hidden in the grass.. A far far more dangerous snake then the red belly black snake.. fortunately the snake tried to get away and my foot was only on a small part of the snakes tail and it quickly slithered away.. I froze in fear and watch the huge snake quickly slither away towards a tree.. If it had not been able to quickly escape from my foot i am sure it would have turned around and bit me.. I was about 11 years old.. So i would never have made it back home alive if it had got me.. After i got my shite together i turn around and ran back home.. I did not want to be anywhere near that huge snake..