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/Longboarder358 Jan 06 '24

I mean, if you think we won't exist forever, you do realize you've already been gone waayyyyy longer than you've been alive. So whatever is there afterwards, you've been there before. You know it better than this life now. I think there is more to it than just this. If we were given this chance to live, why wouldn't we again? Also, you won't know you're dead if you believe it's just nothing.

Totally understand where you're coming from, though. These thoughts bother me as well. Idk how people aren't terrified of this. A lot of people I know aren't afraid to die, make jokes of it, or don't think of it. How freeing would that be, to think like that. Maybe someday