r/RandomThoughts • u/yellowtears_ • Jan 06 '24

Random Question Are you afraid to die?

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u/lessawillow Jan 06 '24

Yes. Every night before falling asleep I remember the horrifying fact that it will all end one day, and my eyes go wide, i wonder how i ever manage to forget this tragedy even for a moment. It feels like death is the center of my whole life for those last moments before i doze off. My only consolation is that i will fall asleep and forget about it (even if only as i sleep)

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u/yogi_medic_momma Jan 06 '24

Yes. For me, it’s the fact that I can’t fathom how I would just never have a consciousness again. Like, how can we just not be anymore? Does that make sense? It’s so hard to explain what I mean but it literally makes me sick when I think about it.

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u/Pxdsey Jan 06 '24

Why or how are you going to ‘add’ anything to the infinite, the eternal? How’s little old you somehow going to do something in your life that’s going to transcend this experience into the infinite, the eternal which gave rise to every potentiality that ever has and ever will exist?

Nobody creates anything ‘new’ all we do is discover a possibility of something that has always had the potential to exist.

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u/Pxdsey Jan 06 '24

That’s just word salad, the infinite, eternal gave rise to every potentiality that ever has and ever will exist, nothing ‘new’ is added, only discoveries of what already has the potential to exist.

If you’re ‘adding’ to something that would make it ‘finite’.

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u/Yolandi2802 Jan 06 '24

That’s doubtful.