I'm afraid of death, since death means that I will forever cease being, and even for another billion trillion gazillion years, there WILL NOT be "me" again. There's no waking from this eternal sleep. Indeed, there'll never be me again, wiped away from existence, decomposed, gone. It will mean that I'll never experience the riches of the Earth, the people, love, laugh, cry, reading books, playing games, displaying emotions etc etc. and ALL THAT will be gone. It will be a state of "being" before one's birth! I realize that I won't even have the feeling of being scared nor of being in a void or blackness (I won't even have a sensation of blackness or the sensation of being peacefully sleeping or resting, b/c even being sentient of that isn't true death). Even living in discomfort or pain would be better than not experiencing anything at all. Nothing is scarier than pure nothingness.
I want to believe: as humans we can live in a technologically-advanced age, no war, and being immortal??
2007-11-21
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