What Scares You the Most About Death?

Our favorite Portland looks this week.

By Sam Gehrke
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"Potentially reliving the same life over and over again."

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"Where I'm going after."

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—"The possibility that maybe there's nothing and mourning the things I didn't get to do in life"
—"A boring death."
—"Being closed up in a box."
—"Uncertainty."

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"The uncertainty of what's on the other side."

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"The pain that I can't help those I leave behind."

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"That you might end up going to Hell."

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"Not being able to fulfill all my goals and being able to provide for my family the way I want before I die. Also not knowing what happens after you die."

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Sam Gehrke

Sam Gehrke

Sam Gehrke is a photographer born in Milwaukee, WI in 1990 and raised in Eugene, OR. He moved to Portland in 2016 to pursue photography, quitting his full time job and diving head first into an independent career. His work has since appeared in Vice Magazine, OPB, The Fader, Vortex Music Magazine and Premier Guitar Magazine.

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