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Funny how this is bound to culture: I used to be afraid of reincarnation as a teenager.
Despite my Christian upbringing, my family is deeply influenced by kardecism. It's a sect that originated in France and is quite popular where I live (most of my friends have either been kardecistss or have kardecism parents). It's a weird blending of Christianity, Darwinism, and Hinduism.
According to kardecist thought, the afterlife is pretty much like ordinary life, but there are different levels and whatnot. And then, there's rebirth. You die, you go some place else where you're punished/praised/whatevered, and then you're back - either to planet Earth or to some other more/less advanced planet.
And I grew up being told such was (after)life. It really bothered me. Was I stuck this stupid cycle of death and rebirth, earning mana and karma, with no memory card to save my progress so I could take a moral holiday!? When did I agree to take part in this messed up world? Why couldn't I just leave without being punished and then brought back? (being a Christian sect, suicide was frowned upon).
This rebellion, so to speak, didn't last more than 6 months, though. Being in contact with orthodox Christianity and Buddhism, and always having had a thing for agnosticism/atheism (I was expelled from a Catholic Elementary school for being an heretic ), I quickly threw the religious baby out and kept the moral bathwater.
Now, don't you think your fear of hell is just as absurd as my fear of being reborn? The difference is just the social context you find yourself in 
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