Discussion
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So if you guys are alright, I’d like to ask if you all are comfortable with this idea:
A discussion about death. Not about why it happens, but why people are afraid of it and why it’s so scary sometimes. -
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I think a lot of people are afraid of it because they think it could be the end of everything, that there is no life after death, and that it'll be just over.
Also death usually involves pain plus it might have something to do with instinct -
The most common answer is probably that people fear the unknown
But also, the idea of everything simply shutting down, your body decaying and rotting, as well you being unable to think or see the world around you anymore. Then the idea of no longer being able to do things that you're put into this world to do, or the idea of losing meaning and becoming unknown, is scary for a lot of people. Losing touch of loved ones, missing out on things you never got to accomplish, feeling unfulfilled, dying too soon or before you felt you found your goal or reason or thing which is most important to you. Being left to just rot under ground and buried there. I think there are a lot of reasons. Death goes against everything about what it means to be alive for people
Even just the fact death often creeps up on people without them knowing, and it seems like there is little you can do to change that fate when it arrives. You can't always predict it, and you're left to come to terms w it if it shows up for you w a nice ol notice that "hey ur gonna die in x amount of time! Hope u haven't wasted ur time alive :)"
Death of loved ones and pets also takes a heavy toll on us while we're alive. Experiencing the pain a death of somebody important like that causes, and seeing what it took away from us, or the person/pet who just died, can ake us also then fear the very idea of it even more -
Yeah. I think it’s just super hard to imagine what it’s like without an afterlife. Sometimes I’ll act so casual about dying, like I’m not scared at all.
Then other times, I just curl up on my bed because I’m just so horrified about the fact that one day, everything in me is gonna shut down before I even get the change to say ‘goodbye.’
It’s just scary. Because sometimes it feels like I’m almost “watching” my life. Like it’s a show, and after it’s over I can just get up and go to watch another film.
What’s scary to me is that my life, is actually my life. I’m not watching someone else’s perspective, this IS ME. And when I die, there’s going to be an infinite amount of time after me, and I’m not going to know about anything after I’m dead. I’m not being selfish, but the thought of other people being alive and having conscience while I’m just completely gone from the world, is really scary. Like, how can I be dead but everyone be alive? How can they think but I can’t? And why does the universe not stop when I die? -
That’s why I believe in a life after death. Like a second life that never ends. I want it to be real, and a big part of me thinks that it is real. It makes me feel better about dying. I have this cool visual about what it feels like to believe in a sort of heaven vs. just dying
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Ok actually I just came up with a story to describe the feeling that I get when I think of what it’s like to die.
“It’s like you’re walking through a familiar place, your house. You know where you want to go, maybe you’re going to bed to lie down for the night. But you turn the doorknob and walk in, and instead of seeing your room, it’s black. Like you’ve just walked into some sort of horrible place. You can look back, and the door is still open. The light from the hallway is still on and the hall is still right outside the door. Before you can comprehend what happened, and the door disappears behind you. Now it’s all black, all gone. Your room doesn’t exist, the hall doesn’t exist, your home doesn’t exist.
And then everything goes black. You don’t even have time to think of your life before you’re gone from the world. There’s no heaven, no television. You have no brain, you’re gone.”
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