Try a thought experiment. Close your eyes and imagine you will die and that your consciousness will cease to exist forever, eternally-- never to return. Death then, is not sleep, because the comfort of sleep is that we are partly dreaming, and even when we aren't conscious, our unconscious mind is at rest. But death is the end of your consciousness, so you cannot logically call it sleep. Your world (you only know of this world as a subject) will cease forever. Whether humanity lives on for thousands or millions of years, or whether another species eventually evolves is irrelevant to the world you lose, because you will never be apart of it. Nothingness is not a state, and neither is it sleep or bliss. The nothingness before you were born is irrelevant here, because you had not come into being yet. But here you are. Now to the question: Does that scare you?
2007-03-03 06:56:10 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
No. When you die you cease to think. The nothingness would be frightening only if I were still conscious in it, which I wont be. I wont be able to think about it, itll be all over. Whats scary about that?
2007-03-03 07:00:33 · answer #1 · answered by Jesus W. 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It terrifies me, I used to think about it all the time as when I was younger, that when I die, there will never ever be another me in existence for ever, and ever and ever, and it keeps going on and on and I will never ever be alive again. I feel like I'm special, like I should live forever, but in reality I'm just a bunch of cells, and once I pass on my DNA through reproduction, my main purpose in life is over.
2007-03-03 15:10:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋