I'm not afraid of death. I'm afraid of dying. Once you're dead it's easy.

I'm not afraid of death, I'm in love with life.

I'm afraid I'll have to go through all this shit again.

I wasn't aware of the abyss before being born. Now that I'm alive, I can feel a certain way about it.

Reminds me of the Mark Twain quote: "Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."

Or as I explained to the head of my church when I was 19 and he asked me how I could not fear death if I did not believe in an afterlife: "I'm not scared of the idea of eternal nothingness after I die. Nothing can't be scary, because that's something, and then it wouldn't be nothing."

Because now I know the difference and... I don't want to go.

Live is a drug, once you try it, you cant have enough

Its not the fear. Its the lack of gooning.

A common saying on Roman tombs/graves:

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo; often abbreviated as NFFSNNC.

It means, ‘I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.’

I'm not afraid of being dead, it's the actual dying that's terrifying.

Afraid? On the contrary, it takes everything I've got to not get their early.

being dead is fine

it's the dying part that'll kill ya

If nonexistence was temporary before birth, surely it won't be temporary after birth

Yeah it'll be a hella long time before your mind molecules come together again, sure

But you won't feel how long it was. You'll just be born again with a new and different existence

Time goes to infinity, which means that there is a 100% chance of it happening again in any given amount of time

The void is not frightening, it's comfy and warm. I go there every night.

Death is not frightening, it is only a moment.

What is truly terrifying, Cool bug, is eternity.

The void is fine, its actually preferable to the other stated alternatives. I fear the pain on my way there, and the pain my absence may bring to those I care for

After bug is the same as before bug.

You have already experienced the loss of bug. Do not fear the absence of bug.

Cool bug fact’s what? What does the cool bug fact own?? YOU CANT LEAVE US HANGING!

I have big FOMO. Its something Im working on

The fear of death is more than the fear of experiencing death. Its also about the fears of not accomplishing enough, the fear of leaving loved ones alone and many more things.

I love this about bugs.

I'm afraid of the psychopath who used an apostrophe there

Alan Watts made a few points like this. Very interesting.

I'm going to save this and send it to a friend or family member who trusts me dearly, while they're having a bad trip.

Because I don't remember experiencing the nothingless void... But if I go by the feelings I have when I think about it which is dread it must have been awful

Thanks bug. Im always saying this

Facts does not need an apostrophe as it is neither possessing anything nor contracting with anything

its called a "nothingness void" for a reason

To quote (or more likely paraphrase, it's been a while) Dan from the Game Grumps ... I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm afraid of dying.

I’m not afraid of it, I just don’t have it in me to try again.

As someone who's lived with DPDR (depersonalisation derealisation disorder) my whole life this was genuinely how I felt about death for a long while.

My first experience in life was a void where I couldn't sense anything and didn't know I was a person but was still fully aware. Then I somehow appeared in 4 year old me's body as though I was used to animate a body.

Funnily enough, I also grew up in a family of orthodox faith, but I never really believed in it, instead I used to basically be a closeted Buddhist in a sense of believing reincarnation, but have since become atheist but still follow practices from both religions.

A very good and well soothed explanation of what happens in the process of dying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZDDByT0Vr0

If you are afraid this video may help.

J.O.S.S can tell you

The process of getting from one to the other is pretty awful.

But you're not annihilated in a material sense. You're rendered agentless - incapable of expression or engagement - as the machinery of your form fails you.

You're not gone, anymore than a spoon full of sugar dissolved in a glass of water. You are decomposed. Overwhelmed at last by all the other organisms trying to devour you. Then reincorporated into the next generation of stuff.

The grammatically incorrect apostrophe in the title is really rustling my jimmies.

I'm not afraid, in fact, I desire it. But there's a couple people who'd be pretty upset if I left, and I don't want to hurt them, so I'm stuck here.

Being “part of the whole“ is such a beautiful concept. Mind, process of thought, is a prison in a sense.

After death, what once was you, will become a small part of a universe - a timeless, infinite creature. I don’t believe there’s God as a separate person - but I believe that universe itself is a God. Everchanging, everlasting chaos where everything and nothing makes sense.

I missed SO much and I’m bummed about it. Aren’t you? I wish I could see the San Francisco Bay before a single European settler set foot on it. I would have loved to have been at Woodstock. And I want to see everything else that happens in the next 1000 years and beyond. We get a snapshot. It’s amazing but not nearly enough.

How do you know the beginning/end location is a void of nothingness?