denial of death

[ksp]

if life is so great, and humans don't actually escape from reality, people should remove these items from their lives:

• alcohol
• drugs
• books
• tv
• radio
• movie
• news
• computer games
• entertainment (no electricity)
• porn (no magazines/print)
• bars

because life is great, and humanity as extremely relevant, right?

 

[Worndown]

Denial if death is like denial that you car can run out if gas. A great intellectual debate with no practical application.
All those things you mentioned are distractions, alcohol, games and some form of porn going way back in our history.
Even a great life needs distractions.

 

[ksp]

@Worndown - yes, i spent every day of my life 7-8 hours sleeping + 8 hours working + 8 hours distracting myself. now i'm asking myself: why?

if i would be abandoned on an island, at birth: what would make appreciate my life? (besides the survival instinct). what would drive me? what would make me think: 'wow, this life is great'? then, trying to extrapolate, and understand the fact that people want to deny my death; force my to suffer

i can't find any reasonable or acceptable solution…

 

[Wannabehappy]

@Worndown - yes, i spent every day of my life 7-8 hours sleeping + 8 hours working + 8 hours distracting myself. now i'm asking myself: why?

if i would be abandoned on an island, at birth: what would make appreciate my life? (besides the survival instinct). what would drive me? what would make me think: 'wow, this life is great'? then, trying to extrapolate, and understand the fact that people want to deny my death; force my to suffer

i can't find any reasonable or acceptable solution…

The problem is trivial. Who are we as people? Sometimes I think that those who want to leave this world are the only sober people. It seems to me that in this world we have lost humanity, we cannot support each other, love. Empty vows we make to each other. I don't think we should give up stimulants, be it alcohol, drugs, sex games, anything. Only we can't do it together. Enjoy the fact that I'm going out and I'm drunk with my man/woman. no. most of the time we'll go out together, take a picture for instagram, and at home we'll give a shit.

 

[FuneralCry]

All that life is, is just a temporary and useless distraction from the fact that we will inevitably cease to exist. Life as a concept serves no purpose, it only exists as a consequence of evolution. I think that to me the true tragic thing is that the existence of life was completely unnecessary, there was never a need for life to exist and yet it does. Nothing could ever justify bringing life here yet people glorify life to such an extreme extent with their delusions and they attach so much value to life when there is none actually there, individual lives are so insignificant and meaningless as after all life exists just to deteriorate and die, it's the fate of all living beings.

But yes, I do think that the world we live in is largely in denial of death. Life is seen as something to be prolonged at all costs with the focus being on to restrict suicide methods and trap people in lives filled with endless suffering. It's like people forget that we will all die anyway, if someone was to die now or in 50 years time it really wouldn't make that much difference at the end of the day, apart from preventing unnecessary years here where the person could have potentially been tortured to such extreme extents.