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Why are we afraid of death? When we die we will
be no more. We won't even have a chance of noticing
that. Not black darkness. No deep sleep. We
just won't be anymore. We don't mourn about
the fact that we were not around when pyramids
were made. But we mourn about the fact that
we won't be around when we are dead although
we have not died yet. Why? Could it be because
we are scared that things won't be quite over
when we died? Could it be that, like with a
new job or a date, we are scared of a new, unknown
world we will have to face? Why do we give a
shit otherwise? Bang, whoom and...there is no
even NOTHINGNESS!
Is it simply because we were not thought in
schools properly what the death is? And what
it means for us, in practical terms? We have
been dying from the day we were born. We don't
know what so called "life" is,but we can be
certain that it is about dying. One day at a
time... Why didn't we get used to it yet? Evolution?
Psychology? Bollox! Animals know more about
death than we do! Why ?!!
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Jim responds: I think the main difficulty
with death is that we are not equipped to imagine
it. If you are religious then its hard to imagine
what you will look like in some imaginary afterlife,
will you be the same age as when died, or a
baby or youthful or some sort of bodyless spirit.
I often wonder whether religious people harbour
a nagging doubt about whether there is really
an afterlife. Perhaps deep inside they know
they are fooling themselves. Heh heh heeh.
If you don't believe in an afterlife then things
are more interesting in a way because things
become absolute, because you are faced with
oblivion. It is this latter which is quite spooky.
Even though we have been oblivious to the vast
majority of the time of the Universe ie. before
birth, the prospect of being oblivious to the
rest of it seems freaky. Yet it must be. Even
if technology keeps us alive artificially there
is a limit. One day the Universe will be unable
to support life because its energy density will
become too low for information to be processed.
That last idea is even more freaky even though
it is trillions of years away, as opposed to
death which is merely a few dozen years off.
The idea that they have been oblivious to the
Universe until now doesn't bother people, its
only future oblivion that they fear. But it
does seem peculiar doesn't it? All that time
and we only get to be aware of such an insignificant
slice of it.
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