Come on people you all make me sick. Death is nothingness and in that you won’t have to feel any emotion. I can’t even comprehend why you don’t want to embrace the beauty of death, hell i’ve only tried countless times…damn psych hospitals. In the end your lives are pointless death is just a release into a better place
Seriously, could anything be worse than entering a new world, naked, head first, out of a bloody hole and then getting your ass slapped by a creature 10 times your size?
I have no opinion on this subject.
I hope you get your money back from those hosiptals…it would not appear they have managed to help you much!
I fear death, but not so much because what lies after, but because im selfish and I love life. Life has hardly been fair to me (at least in my opinion!) but just the same their are times where I just stare out at the world and just marvel. When I think of dying I am saddened at all the things I will miss…my family, friends, laughing, movies, swimming, sports, picnics, travel…the list goes on and on! Not to mention the possiblity of all those cool things I have been reading in Sci-fi books all these years! What I wouldnt give to be around for the first settlement on Mars, or the first contact with aliens. Just so much…
I worry about dying in my sleep and what would happen if I did. I worry that no one would be there to take care of my daughter.
I fear death most because of the unknown. It saddens me that we can feel extreme joy, happiness, love, pain, fear, and triumph only to find out in the end it didn’t mean shit, and people will indeed forget about you as time moves on, and ultimately, until decades past and your existence is completely forgotten.
When we see death - we see loss, grieving, anger, sadness, and those are the things we fear from death. A seperation, a parting. Even though I grew up Catholic, I’ve still always feared death - more for my loved ones than myself however.
To get a bit more scientific, whether you believe or not, it matters little what religion or non-religion you believe in, (atheism is just another religion), the subjective experience of death will produce the effect of eternal life in a series of explosive transitions from one eternalized temporal space to another, unless during the lifetime you have become familiar with the experience and are able to remain conscious and attentive.
You may find this experience intolerable, in which case you are likely to lapse into a state of unconsciousness, falling subject to a procession of nightmarish dreams to avoid the horror of changeless endlessness and explosive transition.
It makes no difference whether you die slowly in bed or instantaneously under the wheels of a ten-ton truck. The subjective experience of eternalized temporal spaces, what are called “chambers”, will be the same because brain events occur at more or less the speed of light. Even within a few seconds there is plenty of time to develop a chain of eternalized temporal chambers, which can seem like hell to the uninitiated…
As the death-point is approached, the temporal chambers fragment into smaller and smaller units, just as Xeno’s arrow never reaches its target because the distance is halved, halved again, and again, endlessly.
Even after certified medical death has firmly been established, there are measurable brain functions and consciousness continues long enough to cause this subjective phenomenon; because there is still microamperage in the brain, too low for legal life, although measurable even by the crude electronic instruments of contemporary medicine.
The thing is that consciousness is an internal synaptic brain function, not an exterior set of phenomena, and therefore can produce self-generated holographic images and symbols resembling a vague approximation of the objective world without exterior stimulation when contact with the external world is broken, although this cannot continue for very long, and the total absence of external stimuli will produce organic death within microseconds.
If your only answer to the question “Who are you” is first person plural by the time your species reaches the end of its collective life, you are indeed going to cease to exist.
If you connect with the universe at large and with participation in the dance of creation, though, you could end up being one of those species of which it is said that how they experienced being, who they in fact were, transcends their extinction.
(Are you now going to come back and ask what about the heat death of the universe and the cessation of time? :p)