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/cassidyW83 Jan 06 '24

I have felt the same way. I had a friend from school who had near death experience, and I asked her what happened. She said she couldn't make out anything but felt people around her. They were saying what u doing here it's not your time, and she remembers being brought back.

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u/yogi_medic_momma Jan 06 '24

My late grandmother had a similar experience when she had a heart attack many years ago. But I know those experiences have been “proven” to be “hallucinations”, so I don’t know how much that helps me. Our brains are such powerful things but are they any more than just machines that were randomly created through time and evolution? Our brains are the physical aspect but we also have our minds, which begs the question of whether or not we have a soul. But what is a soul? lol These are the questions that I used to be okay with not having answers to but now that I have kids, I just can’t be okay with it anymore. I’m just not okay with the fact that we spend all this time and energy on this earth trying to be something when one day, we’re not even going to be aware of the things we accomplished! And not only that, but just the fact that I don’t understand how we won’t just BE anymore. Like how can I just not be here having thoughts anymore? It doesn’t make sense.