Atheists, how do you keep from thinking about dying and having no future after your stay here on Earth?

Question

I mean no disrespect, I simply wonder how you block your future from your thoughts.

dear ;) -- While you are living and seeing others die, how do you not contemplate your own death (if even for a short time).

Dear digital, - while in Iraq, I learned to ask the Holy Spirit to witness to me that I will go to Heaven, if I follow a harmony loving and forgiving life.

I appreciate these answers and I have this to say "You are braver than me."

Answer 1

Well, I'm agnostic, but the question still applies...

I was raised to be "Christian" (not the good kind, but the judgmental, unloving kind) and rejected that, so I am very aware of a hole in that aspect of my life. The thought comes to me from time to time, and yes, it does bother me, but I consider a few things that help a bit:

1.) Maybe there is something more, and maybe the life I've chosen to live will be rewarded

2.) Once I'm dead, I won't care if there's nothing afterwards

3.) I'm still searching for answers (though I must admit I'm jaded by the failures of so many so-called solutions)

4.) Worrying about it accomplishes nothing whether there is more or isn't, since I will neither find "God" nor happiness while dwelling on death.

The emptiness gets to me sometimes because I would like to exist in awareness forever. However, existence does not imply meaning in our world (I'm sure you think differently).

So I guess the main way is by recognizing that there's nothing I can do to change it and considering it all the time bears no fruit.

Answer 2

As an atheist, I think about death sometimes, but my guess is that I think about it no more or less often than the average religious person. As strange as this may seem, at least for me, the thought of no life after death is rather encouraging, or perhaps motivating, for lack of a better word.

I believe that this life is all that I will ever really have. I want to make the most of what little time I have here- happiness, kindness, fun, satisfaction, love, fulfillment, joy, and maybe -just maybe- leaving humanity the slightest bit better off for my having been here.

Emily Dickinson once wrote:

That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.

Answer 3

No. What your suggesting sounds high-quality. But in the end an person will make an "unwanted" option & the society will have got to "Judge" that person. Once a society begins to pass judgement on it is person contributors it turns into a lawful society. Anarchy has the identical difficulty that Communism has as a Political Theory. Human Nature. Need an instance or 2? Communism. I'm a politico within the Party. My son or daughter is NOT I repeat NOT going to head paintings on a few farm collective. I'm going to make use of my connections to aid my youngsters attain their pursuits. I consequently lift them above the opposite "staff" now not on advantage however with my possess individual have an effect on. Anarchy. My baby is ravenous, in poor health or death. You have something it's my baby demands. But your youngsters want it to. Well if I have the capability to take what I wish from you I'm going to. Especially to save lots of my baby. Humans like such a lot of different mammals look after their younger. Even to the detriment of others. Again it is Human Nature.

Answer 4

Because I know that I am going to die, and I know what death is, I don't have to keep thinking about it. As far as the "future after your stay here on Earth", from an atheist perspective, you're banking on something that isn't going to happen and wasting a lot of your time here on being religious.

Answer 5

How do I keep? You cannot presume that I do keep from thinking about dying and having no after life. I have thought about dying and the importance of the values and virtues I pass on with those I live with now so that they might also be open to sharing the collective good that many people try to be apart of and improve.

Answer 6

I don't... I just live my life. What's the point in dwelling on what may or may not happen after something we KNOW will happen?

It doesn't bother me to know that this is all there is... it actually makes it that much more precious to know I won't be around forever, so I have to treat others kindly and love my fellow man, NOW, here.

ETA: Do I think about dying? Of course, doesn't everyone! The thing I dread isn't not living afterward, but the pain that might be associated with dying... I'm not much for the pain thing. But I don't think about having no future after my stay here on earth because there isn't one. I don't sit around thinking, "Wow, I wish there were more." Why bother wishing for for dwelling on something that can't happen? I use that energy to do things here on earth for my family and my fellow man.

Answer 7

I am usually way too busy living to contemplate death..

When you go watch a movie do you need to know there will be another movie in the future in order to enjoy the one you are seeing?

Answer 8

the same thinking before I was ever been born. After I die, the feeling would be the same as pre-existence. There were billions of years that preceded my existence, and you don't see me complaining about it. Life is just single chance, I'm doing my best not to screw it up.

Answer 9

There's no need to avoid thinking about those things. In fact, contemplating our own mortality can increase our sense of the value of life.

Answer 10

Why would anyone waste precious time contemplating what happens after death???---What a grievous waste of time ,which could be spent living in the "now"!!