I?m horrified of dying ? mainly because I don?t think there?s a life after death. What?s even worse is that death is all I can ever think about. Every second of every day, I?m thinking about death and how it would be like to stop existing and have any trace of my presence in this world to just waft away in time and be forgotten forever.
It doesn?t help that I feel like I didn?t live life to its fullest.
Because of this I vowed to invest in life extension research when I?m rich.
An unhealthy habit I have is to go upstairs in the mornings, look across the crowds of people in my school and try to discern the skankiest girls from the cluster of humans and think about how many babies they?ll probably pump out within their lifetimes. Then I think about how superfluous our existence is, how much more superfluous our lives become as the number of humans grow and how we?re all effectively the same. We?re all just organic machines with sex drives. Then I try convincing myself that the very fact that I?m thinking about these kinds of things excessively separates me from all of them, but it doesn?t.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, each one of us is a ?star in the universe? and ?death is just like being unborn again?.
I realize there?re a lot of fun, optimistic ways to look at all this that help people better cope with the idea of dying, but they don?t change the essential truth, do they? We?re all going to stop existing and be forgotten forever if we don?t make something of ourselves. We?re all going to die.
Having this mindset isn?t all bad, it does have its share if applications, for example, I?m the least likely person to suicide bomb something and you won?t catch me trying to grind electrical wires with my skateboard while I'm on fire, or trying to balance a car on my head.
Anyway, I was wondering how other people deal with death. You can suggest positive ways to look at all this, but what would be most helpful is priori proof of an afterlife.
It doesn?t help that I feel like I didn?t live life to its fullest.
Because of this I vowed to invest in life extension research when I?m rich.
An unhealthy habit I have is to go upstairs in the mornings, look across the crowds of people in my school and try to discern the skankiest girls from the cluster of humans and think about how many babies they?ll probably pump out within their lifetimes. Then I think about how superfluous our existence is, how much more superfluous our lives become as the number of humans grow and how we?re all effectively the same. We?re all just organic machines with sex drives. Then I try convincing myself that the very fact that I?m thinking about these kinds of things excessively separates me from all of them, but it doesn?t.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, each one of us is a ?star in the universe? and ?death is just like being unborn again?.
I realize there?re a lot of fun, optimistic ways to look at all this that help people better cope with the idea of dying, but they don?t change the essential truth, do they? We?re all going to stop existing and be forgotten forever if we don?t make something of ourselves. We?re all going to die.
Having this mindset isn?t all bad, it does have its share if applications, for example, I?m the least likely person to suicide bomb something and you won?t catch me trying to grind electrical wires with my skateboard while I'm on fire, or trying to balance a car on my head.
Anyway, I was wondering how other people deal with death. You can suggest positive ways to look at all this, but what would be most helpful is priori proof of an afterlife.
