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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I mean I think the fear of death is really a function of fear of the unknown. Like I know a person IRL who had a near-death experience where she died for a few minutes and she basically said the same thing, i.e. I have some evidence to back up my suspicion that it's "nothing", but I think that people practically being able to resuscitated is kinda recent in human history? So I absolutely do understand how people can be afraid of death when they have absolutely no evidence to suspect that there's no afterlife or anything else we've conjectured about death.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Fear of death is a survival instinct first and foremost I think.

    If you don't care if you die, chance of dying grow. And, as you said, fear of the unknown adds to that.

    I don't believe in the afterlife, but some people have near death experience, some people don't. Who's right? We won't know until it's our turn to die.

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