Is fantasizing about dying part of a known mental condition?

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I have kind of a weird thing where I fantasize about the idea of dying. It's really not that I'm suicidal or even want to die, but sometimes when I'm laying in bed at night I act out a fantasy in my mind of being killed. One of my common fantasies is being killed by a variety of executions, the idea of being forced to die while people who truely care about me feel sorry for me makes me feel relaxed for some weird reason.

Obviously this is not something normal, but I never tell anybody about it because I'm afraid people will think I'm some sort of bad person. I'm pretty sure this isn't a trait associated with Aspergers, so are there other psycholigical conditions that cause people to get pleasure out of fantasizing about dying?

I don't think it's really that weird to fantasize about people missing you and such, people often fantasize about what loved ones will say at there funeral, it makes us feel loved and it erminds us that if we die we will be missed

Maybe you accepting that one day you will die? Enjoing the moment of peace and life you have currently? So you feel like it is your destiny, and that in a positive way? Feeling of being one with the universe?

if not masochistic perhaps a bit obsessive.

Well I do suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder...

I know I have some really unusual quirks that I don't think are a part of my Aspergers, I really think I must have something else wrong with me too. I should try to talk to a doctor about some of this stuff and maybe they can help figure out what is wrong with me.

I have obsessive thoughts about people killing me in the most crazed, violent, bloody ways. It's relaxing in the sense that the thoughts appear when I'm angry or frustrated, and thinking them burns off the anger/frustration.

If I'm trying to cross a busy road and I'm late for something, I'll imagine the drivers deliberately driving into me and my skull being crushed under the wheels, and my brain being smeared on the road. Or if I'm in a crowded place (I don't like crowds) I imagine all the passersby stabbing me, one-by-one, as more and more blood pours out of me. There are loads more. I'm a bit obsessed with human sacrifice and I sometimes imagine people sacrificing me.

It's a bit different to your death-fantasies, but I can see why you have yours.

I've had bad depression all my life but I'm not suicidal. I don't know what causes it. I don't think other people with depression have thoughts like that.

I'm not suicidal either and yet I fantasize about dying. But for opposite reasons. I like the sense of dying, I like the sense of that euphoric high as you are about to die. Wither away. I use to hold my breath under the pool for as long as possible just get to the sense of feeling of losing whatever power I had. I liked the idea of the body given up. But then I liked the most to be revived. To feel as if I were reborn again from dying.

OP, the easy answer is you are passively suicidal, but after reading your whole post I'm not so sure. I think all of us think from time to time about how those left behind will remember us. I often have thought of dying as a way to end the pain in my life, and this is interesting because I am agnostic, yet I've always believed that death is a release from earthly suffering-- a heaven of some sort.

Just be aware that this sort of thinking can be a precursor to feeling suicidal. It has been for me.

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