Why do you fear death?

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I don't.

I take a lot of comfort in the thought

To realize you will die is the beginning of terror. To accept that you will die is the beginning of joy.


 
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I fear it less and less as time goes on.

I figure if I'm right, I'll get to have a killer afterlife and spend it with the people I love, doing the things that I love and ALWAYS being happy.

If I'm wrong, the worst that could happen is that Christians/Jews/Catholics/Hindus/Mudslimes/Whatever were right and I will go to Hell for not obeying every single trivial rule in the book. I don't see that as likely, so it doesn't bother me.

The middle ground is that we are both wrong and nothing happens. My brain will just shut off and I will no longer experience sorrow, joy, or anything, so it's not like I can complain.

When you look at it that way it becomes much less scary.
I'm gonna suggest that calling people 'mudslimes' as a racial slur is probably hell-worthy.
Probably, but all organized religions disgust me, I just don't have funny names for the rest of them.
Hmm. As long as it's more about religion than race, I guess.


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Existence is all we have. The idea of not having it is unacceptable.


 
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I fear it less and less as time goes on.

I figure if I'm right, I'll get to have a killer afterlife and spend it with the people I love, doing the things that I love and ALWAYS being happy.

If I'm wrong, the worst that could happen is that Christians/Jews/Catholics/Hindus/Mudslimes/Whatever were right and I will go to Hell for not obeying every single trivial rule in the book. I don't see that as likely, so it doesn't bother me.

The middle ground is that we are both wrong and nothing happens. My brain will just shut off and I will no longer experience sorrow, joy, or anything, so it's not like I can complain.

When you look at it that way it becomes much less scary.
I'm gonna suggest that calling people 'mudslimes' as a racial slur is probably hell-worthy.
Probably, but all organized religions disgust me, I just don't have funny names for the rest of them.
Hmm. As long as it's more about religion than race, I guess.
I despise all cultures barring of a few, so I suppose you could say I am racist because of that but I don't hate individuals for their culture, just their cultures themselves because they disgust me.
Fair enough.


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I neither fear, nor despise.
I find out if what I believe is true or not.

And things I enjoy in life are gone forever


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I fear forgetting who I am, who I was, the people I love, and the people who loved me.


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I look forward to my death, actually. There is nothing to fear.

It will be something like a permanent, sleepless dream, I imagine.It's only scary because the brain is poor at comprehending non-existence and we fear the unknown.

And who knows, maybe, with the passage of time you will blink into existence again as another being.
Last Edit: November 26, 2015, 10:12:27 PM by KinderEssen


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My response is the typical "Not afraid of death, afraid of dying" thing.


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I've had considerable time to ponder this after Panic Attacks that have started happening to me this year.

For me it seems to come down to the question of "What will happen to my state of Consciousness when I die?" which gets my mind towards a worried state. Then the possibility of me not accomplishing (or even attempting) the shit I want to do before I die makes things worse, on top of the possibility that my Death will be extremely unpleasant to experience.

I know it's stupid and illogical to fear something, but sometimes I just can't stop myself man


 
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I fear death. I fear death because for all I know it is the end of my existence and seeing as my existence is all I have it's a pretty important thing to lose. Also I fear what will happen with my family and the people I care about if I were to pass.

However I'm at peace with what happens after death personally, after death my body will be returned to where it came and will become one with the Universe. There's some kind of peace in that for me.


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I fear death. I fear death because for all I know it is the end of my existence and seeing as my existence is all I have it's a pretty important thing to lose. Also I fear what will happen with my family and the people I care about if I were to pass.

However I'm at peace with what happens after death personally, after death my body will be returned to where it came and will become one with the Universe. There's some kind of peace in that for me.
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i personally dont think death exists tbh

i believe there are multiple planes of existence you can reach with zone theory

i am a plane 8


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Our time in this world is short, so we have to make the best we can of it; when I finally have to step aside and let the world go on without me, I want to have left something behind in my place, something that persists even if only for a little while. It's comforting to know that as long as living creatures have existed, they've all had to go through the same thing, and when I'm gone the world will keep existing.

Also I wouldn't mind having a chat with Riemann, Euler, Hilbert, and Gauss in the afterlife, maybe I'll have a great theorem to show them by then.


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I fear dying in the most shitty way possible.


 
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I don't fear death, I fear dying.
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Well unlike all the edgy people in this thread, yes, I do fear death. Everybody does. Your instinct is to fear it. You can override that if you feel you have something to do which you could sided more important than your own life, but other than that death is scary.

Unless you're a retard and believe in an afterlife.
It's literally the most comforting idea ever, though.

The process of getting old and sick and dying? That's what you should fear.


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ITT: people acting hard by pretending they don't fear death

You don't really have a choice in the matter; death is scary to everyone. The notion that I'll just stop existing is terrifying, not to mention the pain of dying by crime, an accident, or disease.
Last Edit: November 27, 2015, 08:33:49 PM by Thanksgiving is Murder


 
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ITT: people acting hard by pretending they don't fear death

You don't really have a choice in the matter; death is scary to everyone. The notion that I'll just stop existing is terrifying, not to mention the pain of dying by crime, an accident, or disease.
it's not about being "hard"

it's about the simple realization that death is the cessation of literally everything that i hate--and that's comforting

i'm sorry you don't feel the same way, and i'm sorry that my outlook appears to be some sort of affront to your preconceived notions, but i just don't feel the same way as you

getting flustered over someone not being scared of something seems a little bit silly, doesn't it
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ITT: people acting hard by pretending they don't fear death

You don't really have a choice in the matter; death is scary to everyone. The notion that I'll just stop existing is terrifying, not to mention the pain of dying by crime, an accident, or disease.
It's precisely because I don't have a choice that I'm not afraid of it, it would be like being afraid of eating or sleeping or breathing, it's simply something that happens to everyone.


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getting flustered over someone not being as scared as you are seems a little bit silly, doesn't it

Am I flustered?

Like I said, you don't have a choice in the matter. Humans are evolutionarily hardwired to fear dying. You can feel comfort now by seeing it as an end to the stresses of life, but you can't shut out the physiological response of it.


 
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Am I flustered?

Like I said, you don't have a choice in he matter. Humans are evolutionarily hardwired to fear dying. You can feel comfort now by seeing it as an end to the stresses of life, but you can't shut out the physiological response of it.
I don't consider my hardwiring a part of me. I'm "hardwired" to like sex, but do I actually like sex? No.

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Am I flustered?

Like I said, you don't have a choice in he matter. Humans are evolutionarily hardwired to fear dying. You can feel comfort now by seeing it as an end to the stresses of life, but you can't shut out the physiological response of it.
I don't consider my hardwiring a part of me. I'm "hardwired" to like sex, but do I actually like sex? No.

inb4butyou'reavirgin

You may or may not like it if you had it, however. Depending on the circumstances, at least.

But, we can add to that little original statement because not every person is wired identically. You can get folks who exist outside of norms for the bulk population. Hence why we get so many variations of people.