ever feel stressed about death?

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Everyone fears death, or merely cannot comprehend its significance and finality.

There is no afterlife.

After you die, that's it, game over, eternal darkness.
I frequently dwell on this, and how (partially resultantly) we are all insignificant within the universe, and it leads to depression.

There is no real solution to this, only a certain form of bitter pleasure in the knowledge that you are one of those who does comprehend.

 

[Evilsanta]

I am too busy and too young to worry about death at the moment.

And it's not death that I am afriad of it's dying.

 

[Weslebear]

I find death fascinating I have spent probably a much larger amount of time than I should have contemplating the possibilities of every aspect of dying, the fact it cannot be comprehended by our minds makes it all the more interesting to me.

I don't fear it as such, I fear the pain usually involved before death and I fear the feeling it will leave with people who care about me, I would hate to do that to those people.

 

[IronicBeet]

Sometimes I get a pit in my stomach when I think that one day, I'll be on my deathbed and I won't be able to do anything to stop it.

 

[TWRule]

Everyone fears death, or merely cannot comprehend its significance and finality.

There is no afterlife.

After you die, that's it, game over, eternal darkness.
I frequently dwell on this, and how (partially resultantly) we are all insignificant within the universe, and it leads to depression.

There is no real solution to this, only a certain form of bitter pleasure in the knowledge that you are one of those who does comprehend.

Or...finding yourself significant, considering we are the ones that invented meaning in the first place. If sentient life didn't exist in the universe, nothing could be found significant (because there would be no one to find it such).

 

[Ganthrinor]

Death: The only thing that can really give meaning to Life.

 

[[.redacted]]

Everyone fears death, or merely cannot comprehend its significance and finality.

There is no afterlife.

After you die, that's it, game over, eternal darkness.
I frequently dwell on this, and how (partially resultantly) we are all insignificant within the universe, and it leads to depression.

There is no real solution to this, only a certain form of bitter pleasure in the knowledge that you are one of those who does comprehend.

Or...finding yourself significant, considering we are the ones that invented meaning in the first place. If sentient life didn't exist in the universe, nothing could be found significant (because there would be no one to find it such).

Significance is the measure of how greatly one thing affects another.

whether or not we can apply the meaning to it (which is an internal process of, hence, very little significance) is irrelevant, as we will still be insignificant.

Finding yourself important is a form of delusion if you are doing so as a part of the universe. As significance is relative, it is possible to find yourself important in a standard worldly context - as you are significant in relation to others around you.

But, if you can understand the sheer scale of the universe and time itself, you realise that to say that anything you do makes the slightest bit of difference, or will be remembered by the universe, is a lie.

 

[Mana Fiend]

Depends how I'm going to die. If I want to go out the way I plan to (in a sports car during an orgy on fire), then I need to get on the planning.

 

[Danpascooch]

As someone who believes death makes you simply stop existing, and there is no sort of afterlife, yeah, it's pretty fucking scary.

I often wonder "what does it feel like to not exist", to which some of you smug assholes might say "it feels like nothing, dumbass" but none of us have ever experienced feeling nothing before, what is it like? I know, I know, it's not like anything, but it's a legitimate question, none of us has gone through ending our existence before, and came back to speak about what it was like to not exist.

It also sometimes makes me feel like nothing I do matters, after all, it's not like I'm going to remember any of it when I'm dead.

 

[Rickyvantof]

I don't fear death, because when I'm dead I won't be able to give a shit whether or not I'm alive.

 

[Danpascooch]

Everyone fears death, or merely cannot comprehend its significance and finality.

There is no afterlife.

After you die, that's it, game over, eternal darkness.
I frequently dwell on this, and how (partially resultantly) we are all insignificant within the universe, and it leads to depression.

There is no real solution to this, only a certain form of bitter pleasure in the knowledge that you are one of those who does comprehend.

Or...finding yourself significant, considering we are the ones that invented meaning in the first place. If sentient life didn't exist in the universe, nothing could be found significant (because there would be no one to find it such).

Significance is the measure of how greatly one thing affects another.

whether or not we can apply the meaning to it (which is an internal process of, hence, very little significance) is irrelevant, as we will still be insignificant.

Finding yourself important is a form of delusion if you are doing so as a part of the universe. As significance is relative, it is possible to find yourself important in a standard worldly context - as you are significant in relation to others around you.

But, if you can understand the sheer scale of the universe and time itself, you realise that to say that anything you do makes the slightest bit of difference, or will be remembered by the universe, is a lie.

I also feel this way, and when you start to dwell on it, IT SUCKS.

So I try not to.

 

[Bernzz]

Doesn't bother me. It'll happen when it happens. I'm not afraid of what happens afterwards, either. Merely curious.

I WANT to believe in an afterlife, but my brain tells me one can't exist. But it'd be cool.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

While I am here, death is not, and when dead is, I am not.

Thus death and I will never interact in any way what-so-ever.

Why fear something you will never interact with?

 

[gibboss28]

And anyone who says they won't is stupid.

why is that?

 

[TWRule]

Everyone fears death, or merely cannot comprehend its significance and finality.

There is no afterlife.

After you die, that's it, game over, eternal darkness.
I frequently dwell on this, and how (partially resultantly) we are all insignificant within the universe, and it leads to depression.

There is no real solution to this, only a certain form of bitter pleasure in the knowledge that you are one of those who does comprehend.

Or...finding yourself significant, considering we are the ones that invented meaning in the first place. If sentient life didn't exist in the universe, nothing could be found significant (because there would be no one to find it such).

Significance is the measure of how greatly one thing affects another.

whether or not we can apply the meaning to it (which is an internal process of, hence, very little significance) is irrelevant, as we will still be insignificant.

Finding yourself important is a form of delusion if you are doing so as a part of the universe. As significance is relative, it is possible to find yourself important in a standard worldly context - as you are significant in relation to others around you.

But, if you can understand the sheer scale of the universe and time itself, you realise that to say that anything you do makes the slightest bit of difference, or will be remembered by the universe, is a lie.

I'll act on your definition of significance for the sake of argument. How do you measure the magnitude of effect? Size? Certainly something physically small can be of great importance. A mountain is larger than a human being - but in terms of complex relations to the world, the human typically dwarfs the mountain.

So what if we don't move the most mass or energy in the universe, or trigger the largest events? Why is something that lasts longer than us of any more importance if it too is subject to the ravages of time? Why is time itself of importance when it continues to pass with no being to perceive its passing? If the universe had no sentient beings like humans, who cares how much mass and energy flies around or how much time passes? No one. Unless you believe in God, which it seems you do not.

What does it even mean to be "remembered by the universe?" We are remembered by our fellow sentient life forms and that is the only place memory can exist. Do you want to leave a permanent fossil or something?

If we are the only sentient life in the universe, that makes us pretty damned significant, I'd say.

 

[Jedamethis]

Well, worrying won't do anything. So I don't.

 

[Generic_Username]

Well, everyone dies.
If I had to choose one thing that bugs me about it, it would probably be that I don't know when it's going to happen. Knowing how much time I have left would probably motivate me to do stuff.

Also, this:

Death doesn't scare me. Dying does.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

Personally, I couldn't care less when my old friend Death comes for me...

Which people tell me is strange, considering I'm a hardcore Atheist...

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

Everyone fears death, or merely cannot comprehend its significance and finality.

There is no afterlife.

After you die, that's it, game over, eternal darkness.
I frequently dwell on this, and how (partially resultantly) we are all insignificant within the universe, and it leads to depression.

There is no real solution to this, only a certain form of bitter pleasure in the knowledge that you are one of those who does comprehend.

Or...finding yourself significant, considering we are the ones that invented meaning in the first place. If sentient life didn't exist in the universe, nothing could be found significant (because there would be no one to find it such).

Significance is the measure of how greatly one thing affects another.

whether or not we can apply the meaning to it (which is an internal process of, hence, very little significance) is irrelevant, as we will still be insignificant.

Finding yourself important is a form of delusion if you are doing so as a part of the universe. As significance is relative, it is possible to find yourself important in a standard worldly context - as you are significant in relation to others around you.

But, if you can understand the sheer scale of the universe and time itself, you realise that to say that anything you do makes the slightest bit of difference, or will be remembered by the universe, is a lie.

I'll act on your definition of significance for the sake of argument. How do you measure the magnitude of effect? Size? Certainly something physically small can be of great importance. A mountain is larger than a human being - but in terms of complex relations to the world, the human typically dwarfs the mountain.

So what if we don't move the most mass or energy in the universe, or trigger the largest events? Why is something that lasts longer than us of any more importance if it too is subject to the ravages of time? Why is time itself of importance when it continues to pass with no being to perceive its passing? If the universe had no sentient beings like humans, who cares how much mass and energy flies around or how much time passes? No one. Unless you believe in God, which it seems you do not.

What does it even mean to be "remembered by the universe?" We are remembered by our fellow sentient life forms and that is the only place memory can exist. Do you want to leave a permanent fossil or something?

If we are the only sentient life in the universe, that makes us pretty damned significant, I'd say.

This is starting to sound like it belongs in the "Religion and Politics" forum...