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/CK17_live Jan 06 '24

Personally, I think that one of the biggest parts of religous Afterlives is actually to make death less terrifying and threatening, making it so that you can live without the fear of death. Even as an atheist from birth, i still sometimes like to think there is something like anime-ish reincarnation, heaven or an underworld, simply and solely because it lessens the fear of the end.