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FOMO, mostly.
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When we were nothing we had no concept of being something, so we had nothing to lose. Now that we are something, we have the concept of loss, and in life loss is usually painful and saddening. I feel like it makes sense that we would imagine the loss of our whole selves as being painful/sad, whether or not that's actually the case.
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That actually calms me. Thanks
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The point of pain where your body shuts down is actually not that bad. I could watch myself die no problem. You don't really experience death anyways. Your consciousness exists in user space but your body functions in kernel space. If kernel space dies, you don't even get a memo. It is all kinda shocking and hard to take in when a super traumatic thing happens like breaking your neck back and a bunch of other stuff. It is like you are not part of it. The pain kinda just fades into a noise you barely hear your own thoughts over. I've been damn close to dead, and only barely recall little bits and pieces while missing most of three hours. I've watched people die from far far less severe injuries. They did not see their kernel space fail. So yeah I don't think it matters. Smaller injuries hurt worse most of the time. The really big stuff passes a threshold where pain is kinda irrelevant.
Remember when we were just stardust? Simpler times
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Question for the comments, what is the earliest (aka youngest) you can remember memories. I can remember stuff from being at most 2 years old.
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I’m not afraid of what comes after death, I want to experience a good death. And I’m afraid that I won’t. And there’s only the one chance.
I want my brain to shut down in a cascade, like they have found by doing EEG scans of dying people. It’s supposed that this cascade may be what causes the life flashing before your eyes and peaceful feelings often reported by people who have been resuscitated.
I want that. I want a good death.
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I won't be able to eat pizza in the void.
Yes but it's the survival instinct ingrained into our consciousness by the cosmos is kicking in. I've imagined it multiple times and I still feel dread.
I would miss out on all the new experiences that would happen if I wasn't here lingering like a fart
I'm gonna stick around for as long as I can
Well since the fear of death is so seared onto our existence, and since we've already experienced non-existence, doesn't that imply that we're fundamentally so afraid of not existing because we've experienced not existing and it's horrible?
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But energy can't be destroyed or something, so that means I am a chubby baby with wings and a little bow and Jesus tells me stories and doesn't molest me ever, for all time.
How certain are you in your prediction that after death is just nonexistence, and why do you believe it?
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The transition is scary.
I’m afraid that there won’t be enough morphine to send me off. Death doesn’t always come quick.
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I'm more concerned about the transfer point.
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It's not the fear of ceasing to be—that can sometimes seem downright inviting—it's the fear of how my death and subsequent absence would affect the people who love me. That's the only thing that's kept me going when things have been bad.
What is "fact's" a contraction of?
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Alternatively, watch the movie Enter the Void
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Mmm yes I spend all my time thinking about death because I'm afraid of it
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Death isn’t the problem. The transition otoh can be awful.
Nah I've checked it out. My energy was in some other living entity and this will be my final pass around here. Off to the great unity.
The meaning of life, to us, is chemical. You do something evolutionarily advantageous, get a chemical atta boy.
We are designed to survive. Dying is locally a disadvantage to evolution, so we are programmed to fear and avoid death.
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The pain of dying
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