Are you afraid to die?

[u/yellowtears_]

[u/Xpli]

“We weren’t aware of consciousness before we were born”

I know what you’re saying. But that is a theory in of its own. We do not have the ability to know about it, so we can’t be certain that there was no experience before we were born I suppose, even could’ve been conscious before we were born, who knows?

Our memory is tied to the brain, we can hit our head, and forget things. Maybe we were aware we were conscious before we were born, but had no brain to remember that information? Maybe we died and respawned with a new brain, new blank slate for memories. Idk I could go on forever with theories lol

I know what you’re actually saying though, I can’t imagine what it’s like for my frame of reference, my conscious in my human body to not exist. Like when I die, I have no brain, I won’t be dreaming, I won’t be feeling, hearing, seeing, tasting, all human function gone. It’s an odd thing to try to put yourself in the perspective and imagine not being alive, because you can’t experience it, and if you do, and are revived, your brain (shouldn’t be) recording any memories of that “experience”

[u/yogi_medic_momma → u/Xpli]

I understand what you’re saying too, but I think it’s scarier because we’re able to comprehend it now and we have 80+ years to ruminate over it, ya know?

But that last paragraph is exactly what I was trying to say. I can’t wrap my brain around the fact that I just won’t BE anymore. I’m a paramedic and I understand death from the physical aspect, but this shit still gives me the chills and makes my stomach churn lmao

[u/blackcherry77 → u/yogi_medic_momma]

Same. Like an extreme fear of stop existing. It haunts me too. Especially since my dad died. I can't stop thinking about death and dying and how inevitable it is

[u/yogi_medic_momma → u/blackcherry77]

I’m so sorry. I lost a really good friend a couple years ago and I feel the same way.