being atheist or agnostic we know that chriatainality and angels and demons gods and devils and most likely an afterlife are all just wishful thinking. seeing as we know that death is indeed the end for us does that idea frightend you ? what are your thoughts on death ? personaly i gotta admitt it scares me . i know there is nothing i can do to avoid it . im so sad when a relative dies knowing ill never see them again. and this is why i think so many people wanna believe in a god and heaven. we want so badly to believe us and our loved ones will live on that many do so just to comfort themselfs. your thoughts ?
No because being dead is easy living is hard
Lol...50 Cent once said :"Death gotta be easy 'cuz life is hard"
I bet you haven't tried it out to find out if it's really true. lol
Of dying, yes. But once dead then either I’ll still be conscious or not. If conscious yeah! If not then I would know I’m dead....
I can remember being very afraid of death around the ages of 8 to 12. I remember some science fiction movie referencing "the end of time", which terrified me in the same way. Then I seemed to grow out of it. I think I have dealt with the deaths of loved ones fairly well; for most of them, I feel like I could go and visit them any time. The sad part is knowing I can't. When I was 39 I got food poisoning, and didn't realize you could feel like that. I had gotten very sick before, but this was off the charts. It was as if an alarm had gone off in my brain, and then in my entire body, telling me if I didn't do something very, very soon, that was it (I went in an ambulance, and the hospital put 4-5 iv bags of fluid into me). Fear of THAT feeling has lingered.
I'm not so sure about what you mean by an "end". While we may die in this universe, and this universe will be enveloped by the heat death, I am not so sure if it would be the end of everything. Physicists are still scratching the surface of what our universe(s) are made of, much less whether our death is truly the end. I think that maybe when this universe "ends", another will "begin", and life will continue with the same processes in another universe like this one. But that's just my hypotheses. I am certainly sad that ,in any event, we will most certainly not see our friends and loved ones again in an afterlife that transcends the metaphysical processes that we can observe in science.
There is no scientific evidence for continuation of our consciousness after our bodies quit. All we know is that energy does not go away. It can take on different forms and travel to different locations, but does not disappear. Our brains produce energy when we think. That energy keeps going. I have known people who had vivid dreams before they died unexpectedly - dreams in which deceased family members came to them and told them they would pass on soon. I don't know what to make of it. We just don't know what happens when our bodies give out. If there is such a thing as reincarnation, I want to come back as a huge tree with swings for children and lots of homes for birds.
Comfort is certainly a reason people elect to suppress their doubts. It's painful to think about. But I simply can't allow myself to live delusional. That said, it does frighten me. This is it. We weren't here for billions of years, then we're here for a little while, and then we're gone for the rest of eternity. That reality sucks. But this is why it's so important we live happily. Also, I found a quote from Carl Sagan that really helps...
"I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.”
Wonderful quote really. I connect with what you say about being unable to live being disillusioned. Honestly that is me all over, I cannot ignore the reality I am faced with maybe life would be easier if I could but I never will.
...Thanx,nice guidepost- I admire CS
more in time...
It used to terrify me when I was little. After a lot of thought on it I realized there was no point in stressing over it. It will happen eventually and my consciousness will cease. When that happens I won't be around to care and all I can hope for is that the people I leave behind will be better for knowing me and remember me fondly.
I’m afraid of dying but not of being dead. I have no wish to cease to exist, or suffering through some sort of death throws, but I could care less about worrying about what happens afterwards.
I’m not afraid of death and I think the reason why I’m not is because when you think about, eternal life no matter where you spend it would have too be the worst thing imaginable because after a while you’ll have experienced everything there is, at that point why even go on so I do sorta like the idea of simply not existing and there’s just something poetic about my body being used as nutrition by the same world that I’ve some small hand in destroying
I think, there is no need to worry everything related to the religious ideas about the death,
C'oz many Religious idea (Especially Christians idea) tried to design human mind illusion, fear, and uncomfortable thoughts about the death.
For me; I'm not afraid to die
I have no fear of death, but there is a fear of dying. I only fear the pain of prolonged suffering prior to death.
As A athiest no when your dead your dead nothing to fear
Birth and death; are like waves in an ocean. Just the occasional awaeness of the universe beholding itself..
Cool.the way it should be
Afraid ? No.
When you're dead, you don't know you're dead.
Same goes for stupid.
I fear nonexistence.. Fear of the unknown,
I guess.. and the pain that comes before death because I'm a big baby when it comes to physical pain.