Venting Are you afraid of Death , for you to die?

[pthnrdnojvsc]

Do you fear Death ? Why or why not ? how do people on this website compare with the general population?

i don't mean the process of "dying" but Death after the brain dies. one could be "dying" for months of cancer or alshiemers but still alive.

I don't fear Death for many reasons. I believe Death to be non-existence forever. if i don't exist then i can't suffer a trillion times worse than the worst one can imagine. but while alive i can suffer extremely and so can every human and other sentient animal. eternal non-existence is the only guarantee of not being trapped in a hell a trillion times worse than the worst hell one can imagine.

the brain can suffer unending constant unbearable pain. but not after the brain dies. non-existence forever > life or existence

while alive i can suffer, feel pain, have bad memories , problems , diseases, get old and many other horrible things. permanent non-existence is the only guarantee of never suffering any of these horrors of never suffering. so imo non-existence forever is better than being alive or existing.

furthermore i find no meaning in anything . so life is meaningless suffering and unbearable pain. nothing matters to me except avoiding unbearable pain.

most people fear Death. most people seem to think that Death is the worst thing that can happen. to me it's the best thing that can happen to me because it's the escape from hell into the ultimate perfection of eternal non-existence.

i haven't killed myself because i fear failing and remaining alive with even more brain damage and other physical damage not because i fear Death. Death would be saving me from the worst nightmare so why would i fear it? and i would just be going to the state i was in before i was born for 13.8 billion years i didn't exist and i had no problem with not existing all that time.

i also fear any potential pain from a suicide attempt and of course i fear life because i can suffer unending constant unbearable pain any day i continue living .

also i didn't ask to be brought into this hell. i have to work all day a job and chores only to decay and risk extreme torture.

I don't see a reason for why i have to live another minute even if i didn't have all these problems.

Death will be like it was for 13.8 billion years before they birthed me into this nightmare.

i didn't have any problems for 13.8 billion years before i was born. big problems began for me only after i was born.

huge problems began for me only after i was birthed into this evil world as an always hungry animal that can suffer unending constant unbearable pain . for what to be a slave .

what am i but a bag of trillions of cells, and brain cells that can suffer unlimited extreme pain.

non-existence forever is as good as the unending worst pain the worst torture is bad.

to me Death / eternal non-existence is the escape from a hell that is a trillon times worse than the worst one can imagine , a hell they tell me i have to be grateful for . never i will never surrender. i would never want to life or exist under any cirmcumstances much less in a horrible life.

to me permanent non-existence is the most beautiful thing by a septillion times , the ultimate perfection.

nothing else has zero suffering, zero pain, no problems no bad memories..

The philosophy of avoiding unbearable pain. what should we call it? but also the desire for eternal non-existence to escape life and this world forever . but to me i don't care what other do if they want to live or die goes in with nothing matters except me avoiding torture, pain and suffering. so this is different from complete nihilism , efilism.

edit : 21 members on this site so far 84% don't fear Death

the general population in the US shocked me 52% don't fear Death. i would've thought it was over 95% fear Death for one thing the movies and tV shows i've seen they are always fighting to live and fear Death.

Demystifying death: 7 facts you may not know about death - WellTuned by BCBST

When it comes to death, everyone’s feelings are different. Some people are very afraid. Others aren’t at all.

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[Namelesa]

Yea I don't fear death itself at all as the main priority I have for myself is to not suffer and well as I would say after death is nothing, there is nothing to fear from it as I can't suffer if I can't feel or regret anything.

 

[hibikikyuxx]

Scared? No. I'm more curious, if anything.

 

[nuggetfinder]

No. I don't fear death itself. The only thing regarding death I fear is what you touched on, the possibility of brain damage after an attempt. I also fear pain during it. I know it's unrealistic but I just really really hope for a peaceful death.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

Yea I don't fear death itself at all as the main priority I have for myself is to not suffer and well as I would say after death is nothing, there is nothing to fear from it as I can't suffer if I can't feel or regret anything.

i agree. My main priority is me avoiding extreme suffering and unbearable pain. then me avoiding any kind of suffering pain or problems. that's my philosophy . it's not complete Nihilism . Nihilism except for me avoiding pain or suffering and then my suicide as soon as possible.

part of my philosophy is nothing matters except avoiding suffering, pain , problems. and then my suicide as soon as possible is also part of my philosophy . these things are the only things that really matter to me. of course if i kill myself then i avoid suffering from then on forever . but i added my suicide asap for many other reasons also some of which i put in the OP.

The philosophy of avoiding unbearable pain. what should we call it? but also the desire for eternal non-existence to escape life and this world forever .

but to me i don't care what other do if they want to live or die goes in with nothing matters except me avoiding torture, pain and suffering. so this is different from complete nihilism , efilism.

 

[Cosmophobic]

Yes. I fear the unkown. I can't be 100% sure death is non-existence but I agree that's the most likely scenario from what we know. Unfortunately we don't know everything. Our brains work in a particular way for a particular purpose. We have figured out a lot about a lot but there's some things we'll never be able to say for certain.

 

[jinmaopoison]

I just want it to be over but I'll miss my friends. I don't believe in an afterlife so I'm not worried about punishment or whatever. But the bad outweighs the good

 

[willitpass]

I fear the act of dying. Having had many close attempts, I know the physical pain and inevitable fear (no matter how ready you are, there will still be fear, humans are hard wired to fear death, suicide does against our very instincts) that accompany the act of death. I don't fear what comes next. I have come close, like I said, and it has always been oblivion. Nothing at all. You simply cease to be. It is very comforting to me. But to get there had proven to be far more difficult than I know what to do about.

 

[Metro]

I've for long agreed with you on the idea of the lack of suffering in death - it's impossible to suffer or feel pain or care about anything at all if you're dead. But conversely it's impossible to feel happiness or joy, too - though at a certain point in time I would've said that that doesn't matter because you only desire those things by virtue of being alive, and you won't actually care about missing them once you're dead, the same can be said for suffering. So I'm not promortalist, and not strictly antinatalist either - theoretically, you could very well create life that feels more happiness than suffering, and that would be a net positive. But I don't feel so good about making that risk.

Excluding the process of dying, I wouldn't say I'm scared of death but it does provoke somewhat of a reaction when trying to conceptualise it.

I have at various points tried to imagine second by second step by step what death would be like - pulling the trigger at earlier attempts, fading into unconsciousness in others. But each time I get to the actual death I have this feeling of utter overwhelm and incomprehension, then this weird snap back into reality.

It's probably because it's entirely impossible for me to imagine not being. The human brain can't think about not thinking or conceive not conceiving. Despite having done exactly that for billions of years, I am incapable of ever knowing what it's like. I can't imagine not being conscious, and it's trippy. I am admittedly scared of that because it's incredibly overwhelming to me.

Souls obviously don't exist, all we are are brain cells firing around a bunch, but I feel like it's hardwired in us to think of ourselves as something external.