Is the idea that death is darkness a deterrent for most people?

[Weebster]

It encourages me. I embrace the idea that there is nothing after death, because it means that nothing can go wrong after dying too. I don't care whats after death as long as I manage to experience it

I see this repeated a lot on here but it sounds insincere. If you and others like you on here view death as basically the equivalent of heaven, then why are you willingly languishing in the equivalent of Hell?

 

[Journeytoletgo]

I find this so scary still. Sometimes I fluctuate between not fearing death and fearing death

 

[Achlys]

I see this repeated a lot on here but it sounds insincere. If you and others like you on here view death as basically the equivalent of heaven, then why are you willingly languishing in the equivalent of Hell?

I don't consider death or non-existence a heaven. It is only that, compared to the life I live, to not exist would be a refuge. I persist to languish in this life, this hell, for the same reasons many of us are yet to leave it—lack of reliable/peaceful methods, guilt, or a modicum of hope.

 

[Weebster]

I find this so scary still

No Anesthesia experience?

 

[Message In A Bottle]

Abit yes...I'll miss not dreaming vividly anymore - but not like complete darkness isn't calming in its own way either.

 

[Journeytoletgo]

No Anesthesia experience?

No I never experienced it before is it scary?

 

[Weebster]

No I never experienced it before is it scary?

No it's great.

 

[Journeytoletgo]

No it's great.

How are you not scared? I know I'll have to CTB because I been through horrible events

 

[Weebster]

How are you not scared? I know I'll have to CTB because I been through horrible events

Anesthesia isn't scary because you wake up eventually but the nothingness itself that you experience isn't scary.