How do you guys cope with the fact that it is(most probably) going to be "Lights Out" once and for all after death?

[iwanttodie019]

It does not scare me
but
it makes very uncomfortable

life is the only thing that we all have ever known
and then it is going to be "lights out" once and for all
(not forever,mind you, since the conception of time is gone after death)

 

[suacide]

I'm curious most of all. I wanna know how it feels like, but I also don't like the possibility that may be forever really is forever even removed from the concept, though I guess it wouldn't feel like anything at all. Like the distance between falling asleep and waking up on a dreamless night or trying to see out of your elbow.
An optimistic part of me wants to think there is something at the end of all of it, something good and better than all of this. That by the time I'm there, I wouldn't have even acknowledged the time it really took. Some sort of soothing balm for the poor deck of cards served to me this lifetime.

 

[cemeteryismyhome]

As a Catholic I believe in the eternal soul, heaven and hell and so on. At the same time, I don't think I'm really part of the game so to speak. I've always been left out, on my own, not a part of what everyone else is doing. I can't explain it but I think God's going to just let me evaporate when I die, just, poof and no more. I don't think hell could be any worse. I don't think heaven has a place for me. I think he might just let me slip through the cracks and disappear forever into nonexistence. And I desperately crave exactly that.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

"Lights Out" once and for all after death?

to me that Non-existence forever is the best thing imaginable, no chance of suffering, no pain , no problems no bad memories, no old age, none of those horrible things ever

in contrast life is full of suffering, having to work a job chores, worries, problems and there is always the possibility of something extremely horrible entrapping a sentient being or a human . there is always the probability of extreme torture. then decay disease old age torture the human or animal for years

to me the garbage pleasure addictions are not worth even a second of the worst pain much less years of the constant worst pain every second

Eternal Non-Existence will be like all the time before i was born every second of the 13.8 billion years before i was born i had no problems , no chance of suffering extreme torture, no worries, didn't have to work chores or do anything ... that and a book more of reasons is why that time was a billion times better than after i was born and now living as a bag of cells, a brain that can suffer unending constant unbearable pain.

only after i was born did the very huge problems began for me.

every second after a human or other sentient animal is alive they are under threat of something extremely horrible happening or being trapped in unbearable pain.

eternal Non-existence is the oppossite of that horrible state

what i mean is i will never exist again 1 micro-second after my brain dies. so to me it will be a state of Non-Existence forever. "myself" , the world the universe are only models in my brain that sometimes get the attention of my brain. at any moment only that which is the attention of my brain exists to me . so imo i only exist when i'm thinking about me or me in relation to my situation or something. all i am is my brain and brain cells.

 

[iwanttodie019]

"Lights Out" once and for all after death?

to me that Non-existence forever is the best thing imaginable
it will be like all the time before i was born every second of the 13.8 billion years before i was born i had no problems , no chance of suffering extreme torture, no worries, didn't have to work chores or do anything ... that and a book more of reasons is why that time was a billion times better than after i was born and now living as a bag of cells, a brain that can suffer unending constant unbearable pain.

only after i was born did the very huge problems began for me.

it won't be nonexistence FOREVER after death.
Conception of time is gone after death

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

it won't be nonexistence FOREVER after death.
Conception of time is gone after death

what i mean is i will never exist again 1 micro-second after my brain dies. so to me it will be a state of Non-Existence forever after my brain dies, Eternal Non-existence Permanent Non-Existence which to me is " lights out once and for all".

"myself" , the world the universe are only models in my brain that sometimes get the attention of my brain . at any moment only that which is the attention of my brain exists to me : you can only think about 1 or a very few things at a time . so imo i only exist when i'm thinking about me or me in relation to my situation or something. all i am is my brain and brain cells.

after i die it will be the same to my point of view as if the universe were also wiped out forever, and also all my problems and threats against me also wiped out forever

 

[angrybakunawa]

Think about sleeping but never waking up. I feel like that's how it feels. Does that make sense

And I love sleeping so I'm not scared of the nothingness that comes after death.

 

[Jorvak]

It doesn't bother me at all, so what I tend to focus more on how we can amplify the dignity of all humans while they are still alive, secure human needs for all, and to eliminate marginalization, which involves a whole lot of completely abolishing class politics and all it entails. the details of that is discussion for a different thread.

but to elaborate, you did not exist before, you were not conscious to fear non-existence, yet alone fear life. but lets look at this from a different angle, imagine if you were forced to live an "eternal life", that you don't get to choose and you are not allowed to stop this "eternal life" at any point. that sounds far worse than the certainty of non-existence. Not only would you inevitably become bored, but have no escape. So in my view, eternal life is only worth it if you have an escape at any time.

And don't get me started on the sheer misery of the so-called "good" ending of the after life that religions like christianity depicts. what they call "heaven" sounds like another version of "hell" to me. imagine being forced to worship a mythological cosmic tyrant who for all of eternity and you're expected to be happy about it. and if before you even die, you refuse to worship that being either because you don't have sufficient reason to believe they exist, or disagree with the tyrannical actions they are depicted to have committed throughout the holy book attributed to them, you get sent to an "eternal punishment". Either of these options are deeply sickening notions to me, and its all the more sickening to me that kids are taught that if they don't believe in this horrible mythology they'll suffer forever, scarring young kids with trauma in the process. So i for one am very glad these mythologies are fake, human made stories designed to control ancient populations behavior.

So yea, i don't mind the thought of non-existence, and it certainly couldn't bother me once i cease to exist. There are far, far worse notions out there in mythology than total non-existence.

 

[panhandle5363]

If you think about it, you experienced it before you were born, so it's just a return to a previous state.

 

[WakingNightmare]

That's what I am actually hoping for, if it's anything else I am gonna be pissed

 

[Chemi]

It's an unsettling thought that I try not to think about too much. Usually, just keep reminding myself that once I'm gone, I won't be able to miss what could have been anyway. Gives me some kind of comfort, at least.

 

[Forveleth]

Eternal non-existence is exactly what I want. I do not have to "cope" with anything as it is the outcome I am looking forward to.

 

[Dejected 55]

Humanity has a difficult time grasping the concept of nothingness. For as long as we have individually existed, we have been here. There are people who have memories of time before we lived, and early in our lives before we have memories... and there will be people still here after we die... but what does that mean for us?

Were we anywhere before we were born? Will we be anywhere after we die? Nobody knows, and there's only one way to know about the after... and whether it scares you or not, it's hard to wrap your head around the idea of essentially going to sleep and never waking up again.

I hope for nothing, though. I don't want more of this or some other thing. I just want it to be done.