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[-] daggermoon@piefed.world 70 points 5 days ago

I'm not afraid of death. I'm afraid of dying. Once you're dead it's easy.

[-] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Once u’r dead its eas’y

Fixed it for you

Just the fact’s

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[-] SuperApples@lemmy.world 42 points 5 days ago

I'm not afraid of death, I'm in love with life.

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[-] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 22 points 4 days ago

I wasn't aware of the abyss before being born. Now that I'm alive, I can feel a certain way about it.

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[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 36 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Well no, I haven't experienced it. Experiencing something is only possible with some kind of sensory organ - of which I had none before I developed them in this life. Not to mention any data "I" may have gathered back then was thoroughly erased so it doesn't affect this life in any way. Which means the void might actually be endless torture and I'd have no way of knowing.

Edit: just to be clear, I'm an atheist, I don't believe in rebirth or afterlife or souls or any such things. Just arguing for argument's sake with the "you've experienced it" part that I find unconvincing :)

[-] whoxtank28@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

We have near analogies that are close enough for us to have an idea. Anesthesia, being knocked out, dreamless sleep are closest to what we would consider "experiencing" oblivion. We can correlate the lack of experience or consiousness to the what we "experienced" prior to existing.

I get what you mean though, we can experience a transition out of and into non-experience, but cannot, as a matter of course, experience non-experience. There is no good reason (by my measure) to believe that there is anything other than just non-experience in the before and after phase of life. To the individual consciousness there is no discernable difference either. The matter/energy you are made of existed prior to and will continue to exist after you are gone, all that will be left is your memetic and causal imprint on our small bubble of reality.

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[-] RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 days ago

Reminds me of the Mark Twain quote: "Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."

Or as I explained to the head of my church when I was 19 and he asked me how I could not fear death if I did not believe in an afterlife: "I'm not scared of the idea of eternal nothingness after I die. Nothing can't be scary, because that's something, and then it wouldn't be nothing."

[-] cuerdo@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Live is a drug, once you try it, you cant have enough

[-] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I prefer to say it's habit forming. Better captures the battle with with the parts of you that want to quit

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

The void is fine, its actually preferable to the other stated alternatives. I fear the pain on my way there, and the pain my absence may bring to those I care for

[-] Naich@piefed.world 25 points 5 days ago

I'm afraid I'll have to go through all this shit again.

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 14 points 5 days ago

Fun fact, according to other beliefs, you've already been through this shit infinitely. Only the YOU in this moment realizes this one.

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

There isn't really an effective 'you' then is there?

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 6 points 5 days ago

I think, the therefore I am.

[-] Naich@piefed.world 7 points 5 days ago

I'm pink, therefore I'm spam.

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[-] weps@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

being dead is fine

it's the dying part that'll kill ya

[-] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

A common saying on Roman tombs/graves:

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo; often abbreviated as NFFSNNC.

It means, ‘I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.’

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago
[-] insanemantis@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If nonexistence was temporary before birth, surely it won't be temporary after birth

Yeah it'll be a hella long time before your mind molecules come together again, sure

But you won't feel how long it was. You'll just be born again with a new and different existence

Time goes to infinity, which means that there is a 100% chance of it happening again in any given amount of time

[-] CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 4 points 4 days ago

Not what infinite time means or implies.

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[-] Worstdriver@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Because now I know the difference and... I don't want to go.

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[-] bertlewirth@lemy.lol 17 points 5 days ago

Cool bug fact’s what? What does the cool bug fact own?? YOU CANT LEAVE US HANGING!

[-] Viceversa@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Cool bug fact's bad grammar

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[-] Delusions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 days ago

Because I don't remember experiencing the nothingless void... But if I go by the feelings I have when I think about it which is dread it must have been awful

[-] eyelevel@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

A survival instinct is of immense evolutionary value. Nearly all creatures that have survived danger well enough to reproduce and pass forward their characteristics have done so by possessing a mechanism that causes them to respond to danger and try to avoid death. This is often communicated by strong emotional and physiological responses. Humans are advanced in this regard, in that we can conceptualize danger in our minds and experience the reactions in our body as though they were the same thing.

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

Its not the fear. Its the lack of gooning.

I'm not afraid of being dead, it's the actual dying that's terrifying.

[-] Duranie@leminal.space 5 points 5 days ago

Working in hospice and working with people as they approach their transition and end of their experience here, there's a touch of comfort and anxiety watching the many ways people can go. There are definitely preferred ways to go, and some that are heartbreaking, and some that I would personally find terrifying. Don't fear comfort meds. They're there for a reason.

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[-] sompreno@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago

The fear of death is more than the fear of experiencing death. Its also about the fears of not accomplishing enough, the fear of leaving loved ones alone and many more things.

[-] trojanbark@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Facts does not need an apostrophe as it is neither possessing anything nor contracting with anything

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That's the name of the pub owned by Cool Bug Fact. It's where a drunk person wearing red boxing gloves (as depicted in OP's picture) is talking your ear off about what comes or doesn't come after death, trying to convince themselves more than you that there's nothing to fear.

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[-] Krono@lemmy.today 7 points 5 days ago

The void is not frightening, it's comfy and warm. I go there every night.

Death is not frightening, it is only a moment.

What is truly terrifying, Cool bug, is eternity.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

its called a "nothingness void" for a reason

[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 7 points 5 days ago

What happens if I don't achieve all my goals? I'm a completionist this will be devastating if I have like 97 out of 100 things done

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago

99% gamer purgatory

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 7 points 5 days ago

Afraid? On the contrary, it takes everything I've got to not get their early.

[-] RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

After bug is the same as before bug.

You have already experienced the loss of bug. Do not fear the absence of bug.

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[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I love this about bugs.

[-] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 days ago

I have big FOMO. Its something Im working on

[-] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

Alan Watts made a few points like this. Very interesting.

[-] carin_heron@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago

I'm going to save this and send it to a friend or family member who trusts me dearly, while they're having a bad trip.

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