The only thing I take solace in with regards to death

[Busticket]

If you read some of my threads you know that I am very scared of death.
What scares me about it is that it is like being asleep and unconscious but not for one night but forever, it will never end.
The only thing that I take solace in with regards to death is that I am not the only one who is going to be in this situation of being unconscious forever.
I am not in this alone.
Every person is going to die and billions have already died.
We are all in this together.

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

What scares me about it is that it is like being asleep and unconscious but not for one night but forever, it will never end.

No time perception (or any perception) when dead.

 

[WornOutLife]

Well, nobody really knows but I think that without a brain, there won't be any consciousness and being dead will be just like the time before we were born; we won't even realize!

This helps me not to be afraid of death.

 

[motel rooms]

What scares me about it is that it is like being asleep and unconscious but not for one night but forever, it will never end.

What's so scary about being unconscious or being asleep & not dreaming anything?

 

[the_final_countdown]

I'm not afraid of death. It's like sleeping. Don't you think?

Well to be honest, nobody can say for sure. I don't think there's any evidence we come back in this world.

And it's not clear to me we would come back in another.

Maybe this entire universe will repeat again and the moment you die trillions and trillions of years pass until the Big Bang happens all over again.

Who can say for sure?

That would be the cruelest fate. To resurrect over and over again.

Or maybe all of this is a one time event and it'll never happen again. And you, me, everybody will stay in a perpetual oblivion.

I don't mind that.

 

[keyakizaka]

this does make me feel better. i find comfort in the fact that i'm not the only one.

 

[ExistentialEntropy]

Well it's certainly true that everything living eventually breaks apart. From a materialistic perspective we all fade into the heat death of the universe.

But what's to say that there isn't something outside the purely material?

 

[Efilismislife]

Sleeping forever/eternal nothingness is not the worst part.

the worst part is the dying processs, what happens to every cells of you and what comes after? What you feel during that entire times when that happens?
Thats always what hunt me&stop me from suicide cause im a thinker(or overthinker)

Of course people would like to try/think of skipping that part but no one can know for sure. Theres no research for it how bad the pain.

And the people who experience dying to death process cant give testimonials. Also the memory might not work so they dont remember. Like surgery.
(Except for the liars who make themselves popular by making up stories/hallucinating that they died go to heaven, etc without proof)

 

[FuneralCry]

Most people are scared about death because they are worried there is some sort of afterlife or reincarnation but I believe there is nothing and that comforts me. It is quite a surreal thought thinking there will be nothing forever, so I understand your fear despite the fact that it sounds like a wonderful thing to me, experiencing nothing. I think life is the scary thing and death is my only escape. I do understand your point though, dying is our purpose and our true intention, it makes life meaningless.

 

[Broken Buzz]

I study consciousness, I've conducted research on different states of consciousness, and I have a personal philosophy on it. It's hard to think of 'nothingness' because we automatically inject consciousness into our vision in order to understand what it might 'feel' like. Ie. without consciousness we feel nothing, but how do we know we would feel nothing unless we imagine being consciously unconscious?

Anyway, I also used to be afraid of death, the process of death, but then I experienced a minimal state of consciousness, being conscious but with no images, no pain, no sense of space or time, not even thoughts, it was the feeling of simply existing. Some people experience that feeling during a coma, others reach it after spending years mastering certain kinds of meditation. It's being conscious whilst asleep, but not dreaming. You would think it would be scary but for me, it was incredibly peaceful. If that's what the 'afterlife' (if there is one) consists of, then I'll happily embrace it.

It doesn't feel like 'forever' because there is no sense of time, nor any thoughts to reflect upon the passage of time. In the absence of emotions, there is just 'peace', a sense of existing but not "being alive".

 

[motel rooms]

It's being conscious whilst asleep, but not dreaming. You would think it would be scary but for me, it was incredibly peaceful.

I just don't get why anyone would find that scary. Doesn't everyone enjoy a good night's sleep without dreams?

 

[Broken Buzz]

I just don't get why anyone would find that scary. Doesn't everyone enjoy a good night's sleep without dreams?

This was exactly my point, but a lot of people seem to envision this as something different. Not as going to sleep as they do every night already, but as going to sleep and being trapped, unable to wake up. Being trapped within their own mind as if in some kind of pseudocoma. At least, those are my observations from people I've spoken to.

 

[motel rooms]

Being trapped within their own mind as if in some kind of pseudocoma. At least, those are my observations from people I've spoken to.

I guess it's a good thing that those people don't realize that every living person, happy or unhappy, is trapped within their own mind

 

[IWantToSleep]

I've thought about this before, it does bring some degree of comfort.