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If you don’t believe if an after life then death is the end. Everything you have learned, built, feel, etc goes away and it never comes back. All the stuff you enjoy, the people you love, you not only never get those feelings back but you never get to experience it again. I can imagine that terrifying people.
I guess because I view death as the beginning of an eternity with God.
Personally I find the concept of an afterlife and the implications that has infinitely more terrifying.
Becoming deleted no, so long as it's legitimate. The actual act of how and why, yes. AKA some jerkwad trying to rob me and gun goes bang vs if I had some disease where I just quietly went to sleep one night and never woke up.
Less so death, and moreso not being able to do as much as this planet has to offer. Really - the fear of it being cut short.
We all have to die at some point. But man, getting a fatal diagnosis or dying in an accident young would be tragic
Yeah I have a fear of losing a sense like my eyesight or getting paralyzed somehow. I had some close calls of almost getting hit on the road on my bike (I biked 10K miles one year outside) and ride with front and rear cameras for liability purposes. I mainly ride indoors now.
indoors on a track? Or like stationary bike? That's a damn shame - feel a key part of biking owuld be the great outdoors. How often did you have near misses
Same. I was nearly paralyzed in a skateboarding accident when I was a kid. I fear paralysis, going blind, suffering from a painful disease, or being wrongly imprisoned, far more than death.
Why fear what you can't control?
I'm afraid of a painful death but not afraid of death in general. I think of it as falling into a deep sleep and never waking up. It is wild to think though that after we die, the universe will exist for countless trillions of years and that we will be entirely forgotten. Humbling that no matter how wealthy or powerful one may be, we will all turn into dust, our matter absorbed by the universe.
Yeah and also a trillion years is such a long time, but a trillion versus eternity is like a single grain of sand or much less versus eternity.
Yeah time will end when the universe ends, but one wonder whether a new universe will arise from it. If we are living in a simulation, the "creator" will probably just create another universe. We also can't rule out multiverses. We have not even scratched the surface of what the universe really is.
Death can be intimidating if u view life as something meaningful. But if u approach life in a nihilistic way, nothing really matters. You come and you go, nothing scares u.
Still haven’t fully accepted I will die one day. I know I will, but the concept seems so foreign
Still haven’t fully accepted I will die one day. I know I will, but the concept seems so foreign
Still haven’t fully accepted I will die one day. I know I will, but the concept seems so foreign
Still haven’t fully accepted I will die one day. I know I will, but the concept seems so foreign
Still haven’t fully accepted I will die one day. I know I will, but the concept seems so foreign
No. Because in death, we get transcended to eternal life, with no pain, suffering and the depression that comes with recruiting for firms with 10 interviews and working in sweaty groups. It is the beginning of a full relationship with God and we finally get to see him in his full majesty.
That's easy to say tho in your early 20s. I'd imagine myself in my 80s nearing death, wondering if these beliefs are actually fr, and wondering when's that day gonna come - tomorrow? Next week? Next month? Next year? 10 years? Or later this afternoon after my nap? Will probably be a scummy feeling too, knowing every sleep I take might be my last lol
No. I've been close enough, multiple times, that I've made peace with it.
For example, I almost went into septic shock from a bacterial infection. An hour or two slower to the ER and I'd have been done for. At that point, I would have been pretty happy to die (being literally eaten alive isn't a feeling I hope any other person has to experience). At a certain threshold you can't handle the pain and death seems like a release. I've had other events with trauma (more on the psychological side) that evoked similar feelings.
Eventually you start to become numb to the possibility of death and you realize that you might as well act as though it will come. It's a nihilistic perspective from an atheist's viewpoint- sometimes it makes me want to do nothing, and other times I feel like no risk is too great to achieve a goal. It all depends on how intrinsically motivated I am feeling on a particular day, as I see life as only having the meaning I choose to set for it.
(Admittedly, I'm not a banker, so this viewpoint likely makes more sense if you realize my primary goals aren't wealth/status.)
Yes.
No. Why would I be afraid of something that is not only inevitable, but also promises something much greater - perfection of myself in the union of eternal love? Of course I dread the thought of, say, getting Alzheimer's and slowly rotting away in a nursing home, but that is within my hands, since I can choose to live dangerously. In any case, death is not the worst thing - it's not truly living life in its fullest, truly loving recklessly, and laughing truly joyously every single day.
It's definitely my biggest fear. I do not believe in an afterlife. Upon my death, I think my individual consciousness ceases.
What it will be like to be dead, I do not know, but I have some suspicions. By my best guess, I will feel the same thing in 2150 that I did in 1950 - nothing. No perception of time, no perception of being me, LD as a person. It is hard to wrap your mind around because you can't imagine it.
Part of me wonders if the universe is cyclical or eternal. If so, I may live this life over and over and over again with no memory of my past lives. Not sure how I feel about that.
There is also the idea of generic subjective continuity which is interesting. After you die, other creatures come into being with the same sense of being a self that I do. Since I can't be conscious of not existing, will it be like a seamless transition into being someone else with no past memories? Who knows. Honestly, part of me hopes it is not the case. Most beings (people, animals etc.) live worse lives than I currently do.
I'm not sure I would want to live forever, however. Imagine living one googol years (10^100). Then you realize that you have to live 5 quadrillion sets of those googol years. And that's just the beginning! That makes my head spin. I'd rather be unconscious instead. Perhaps the solace of the atheist is that you go under an anesthetic to endure eternity.
If you told me that I would live 85-90 years in the first world and then I'm done, I could make peace with that. Really, really, really don't want to die young or suddenly. I guess that's why I take care of myself.
The ultimate consolation I have is my grandfather who passed in 2016. He lived a great life - successful career, respected member of the community, loved his wife, had many successful children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, and then passed in his sleep at 86. And you know what. He doesn't even know he's dead! That's my goal in life. To be like him.
I am not afraid of ceasing to exist. There was a time before I existed and there will be a time after. I am afraid of aging/dying, especially if it affects my mobility. At that point I'd rather sit around doing drugs all day or maybe take advantage of assisted suicide but neither are really an option yet.
If somebody told you that you would be painlessly killed in 30 seconds would you be afraid?
I don't think so?
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