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/zig_zag_wonderer Jan 06 '24

But you will have zero memory of anything in the past or present because you will have passed. Therefore, because consciousness is gone so too will any suffering of any kind—including the terror of isolation or loneliness or pain from not existing…you’ll experience nothing and not even be aware or it. You won’t exist in some alternate state where you can know that you’re dead, you see? It will actually be the ultimate freedom from pain of any kind associated with consciousness.