How are you guys able to digest eternal nothingness?

[Journeytoletgo]

I know I won't feel it or know it but man it's horrible

 

[Oblivion Access]

Easier than any food imaginable. To vanish and be forgotten like most before me sounds almost too good to be true.

 

[Foresight]

I don't worry about nothingness. I worry it's not nothingness.

 

[Journeytoletgo]

I don't worry about nothingness. I worry it's not nothingness.

I know let's hope it is, or we travel the cosmic goo

 

[FuneralCry]

I look forward to it. It is what I want the most. It is the end to all pain and suffering.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

I know I won't feel it or know it but man it's horrible

Eternal nothingness is the best thing imaginable to me , no suffering ever , no extreme pain ever, no torture ever , no problems forever.... Etc none of the other hells like stroke , homelessness , cancer , dementia , old age, lies, scams, injustice, 5000 other things I hate about life and this world. That's what I believe will happen to me after death eternal nothingness, non-existence.

I can't wait. I wish I were never born

 

[OldDrummer]

Or Nirvana, as the Buddhists call it.

The end of the self or identity is a scary prospect as we hang onto it like it's reality.

In truth, they say it's just an illusion. We're an eternal witness, watching ourselves play roles on a stage. We're not the actor, we're the audience member.

 

[Soapie]

I literally do not know. I'm not really even able to comprehend the idea of nothingness after death. It's all way beyond me. Honestly the way I'm looking at it is just basically 'i have no idea what's gonna happen but hey there's only one way to find out!'

 

[LostAllHope88]

I think, for me right now…I just keep reminding myself that death is inevitable for all living things. With life comes death, no matter how much people may try to push that fact out of their minds.

Maybe there's truly nothing afterwards, an infinite void…maybe there is more. Only those who have died really know. Any other opinion is just speculation. When I think about it this way, that I'll finally experience the truth, it brings me some comfort.

 

[Journeytoletgo]

I think, for me right now…I just keep reminding myself that death is inevitable for all living things. With life comes death, no matter how much people may try to push that fact out of their minds.

Maybe there's truly nothing afterwards, an infinite void…maybe there is more. Only those who have died really know. Any other opinion is just speculation. When I think about it this way, that I'll finally experience the truth, it brings me some comfort.

How are you not scared though? It has to be nothing. There truly isn't anything, we are a complex life form that has emotions that hopes for more but it isn't true. How do you guys come to terms with the forever end? I just can't accept this is it and it was crappy

 

[Somber]

Life might not exactly be what you make of it, but death certainly is.

 

[Journeytoletgo]

Life might not exactly be what you make of it, but death certainly is.

How are you so sure? Lol

 

[LostAllHope88]

How are you not scared though? It has to be nothing. There truly isn't anything, we are a complex life form that has emotions that hopes for more but it isn't true. How do you guys come to terms with the forever end? I just can't accept this is it and it was crappy

I can't know with any certainty, that's the thing: either there is or there's isn't anything after we pass on, but there is no proof of either currently. It is scary, but fear is always rooted in not knowing.

I remember when I was a kid my dad took me to a theme park and I was terrified to get on a roller coaster. I don't think I've ever shook so much in my life. My dad made me get on it and I had no choice. Afterwards, I realized I loved it! It was the moments leading up to it, the thoughts and anxious feelings that were the scariest part about the experience.

 

[Arrow]

it will happen regardless of anything i do so i just try not to think about it

 

[ultrafuntimes]

I don't. I can't accept it.
The day to day suffering of existence is always there to overshadow any fears I do have though lol.

 

[Somber]

How are you so sure? Lol

Science won't claim to know what they can't prove and every religion claims to know what the afterlife is without proof.

If neither of them can provide me with a convincing answer it's up to me to decide on what it will be like.

I don't follow any religion because why would their imagination be better than mine and if my body dies I'm clearly no longer corporeal and don't adhere to any laws of physics.

Ergo it's my decision.

 

[anxious_depressive]

I hope it's like a dream without dreams.
Or a state of being under anesthesia.

No one really knows what happens after death.

 

[Versailles]

It is difficult for people to digest the idea of emptiness or nonexistence, so it is common to doubt it because this idea is quite big for us.

 

[WiltedSoul]

What was it like before you were born? Were you miserable, happy?

That's how I cope with it. It's a state I've already supposedly "experienced" and I have absolutely no memory of it. I feel neutral about this previous state of nonexistence, so death shouldn't be much different.

That, and I once came close to actually dying via suffocation. I remember the hallucinations vividly and you wouldn't exactly think of them as pleasant if I were to describe what it is I saw, but the actual content of the hallucinations didn't matter. The lack of oxygen/struggle to breathe didn't matter. I felt this great sense of otherworldly peace/well-being.

So my fear of the unknown is lessened. I don't even fear the possibility of an afterlife; in the unlikely event it exists, I feel like the universe/god/sky daddy/whatever probably doesn't give enough of a shit about us to punish us for anything. We're not that important. Life isn't that important. We attach great meaning to it, but look around.

Billions of creatures die just to feed others on the regular. Rats eat their sickly offspring alive the moment they're born, fetuses are constantly miscarried and so on. This is no big deal to life, so why would it be of any consequence to the supernatural?

I feel that if an afterlife exists, it's probably something like reincarnation and the "purpose" of life is to experience things for some incomprehensible reason. Good things, horrific things alike. The pain of the physical body and mind is meaningless to the cosmos. It might even be meaningless to us after we die.

 

[Journeytoletgo]

What was it like before you were born? Were you miserable, happy?

That's how I cope with it. It's a state I've already supposedly "experienced" and I have absolutely no memory of it. I feel neutral about this previous state of nonexistence, so death shouldn't be much different.

That, and I once came close to actually dying via suffocation. I remember the hallucinations vividly and you wouldn't exactly think of them as pleasant if I were to describe what it is I saw, but the actual content of the hallucinations didn't matter. The lack of oxygen/struggle to breathe didn't matter. I felt this great sense of otherworldly peace/well-being.

So my fear of the unknown is lessened. I don't even fear the possibility of an afterlife; in the unlikely event it exists, I feel like the universe/god/sky daddy/whatever probably doesn't give enough of a shit about us to punish us for anything. We're not that important. Life isn't that important. We attach great meaning to it, but look around.

Billions of creatures die just to feed others on the regular. Rats eat their sickly offspring alive the moment they're born, fetuses are constantly miscarried and so on. This is no big deal to life, so why would it be of any consequence to the supernatural?

I feel that if an afterlife exists, it's probably something like reincarnation and the "purpose" of life is to experience things for some incomprehensible reason. Good things, horrific things alike. The pain of the physical body and mind is meaningless to the cosmos. It might even be meaningless to us after we die.

Thank you this calms me down

 

[Promortalistic4Life]

Eternal nothingness cannot in any circumstance be bad since the desire to be alive and experience pleasure ceases to be with your cessation, and this is PRECISELY why I want to die so desperately. Life is completely futile, it is merely a stupid game of evolution where you make copies of yourself for absolutely no sane reason just as hydrogen bonds with oxygen for no purpose, and while you're at it you're just gonna constantly struggle and suffer to satisfy needs and desires that never needed to be. Even if I could live in a paradise of my dreams, there'd be still no reason to do so, since it's still all about wants, which is why I consider nothingness – or sleep – to be the best thing "imaginable". Being a sentient organism is inherently a problem, never a solution even though that's what our parasitiac stone-age brain wants to tell us. There is no awareness of space and time in non-existence, so for the dead, they don't exist for an infinite amount of time, rather, they don't exist at all. Consider the mathematical set [1, 10]. There is no beyond that set within the frame of that set; there is no 11, 12, Graham number, infinity after it. It begins with 1 and ends with 10.

I can't wait to die, but yet I'm constantly procrastinating bc, well, 4 billion years of evolution and fine-tuning of my self-preservation is nigh impossible to overcome, making me stuck in this limbo with my philosophical pessimism (know the show True Detective? The protagonist and detective Rust Cohle has essentially the same convictions as I do, but he said that he hasn't killed himself yet due to his programming. DNA is one HELL of an "evil" code, being the sole cause of all the tremendous torture that has been going on since the last 500 million years on this planet without a pause in action (that's about how long sentient life already exists JUST on Earth).

 

[jimmy7754]

I'm pretty sure it's just a burst of chemicals firing.. we die just like rats..

https://www.npr.org/sections/health...rats-yield-clues-about-near-death-experiences

Spite on my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage..

Rats and children follow me out of town..

 

[D&D]

"I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow."
― Arthur Schopenhauer

 

[Erosella]

The only solace I have is knowing my best friend is there, in that void somewhere and I just want to see her again.

 

[back_to_oblivion]

Honestly I don't worry because I won't be aware of it, there will be no me to be aware of eternal nothingness. I'll just forget everything and cease to exist.

 

[Journeytoletgo]

I cannot accept it

 

[lonerclown666]

Whatever happens after death im ready for it

 

[markimobzzdeasui]

It seems scary when I am alive and there are many theories that roam in my head all day about the state after death. I just have to do it 'cause I don't stand a chance with this existence anymore. Whatever happens after death happens. Atleast this shitty life would end.

 

[Rational man]

The only thing we do know is that we are here today. Tomorrow is not guaranteed for.anyone. A young man in our town died last Week.when a tree toppled onto his car during a storm .His life is gone. We all die and nothingness or whatever, will be. I fear the protracted pain of dying more than i do ' whats afterwards '..

 

[Neon]

It's not good, exciting, or anything to look forward to, it's just better than being alive and feeling like this for the rest of my life.