• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago

    Honestly sounds kinda nice as long as the going is peaceful. Like I’m not suicidal and I’m on an upswing right now but it still genuinely sounds nice. Thanks for sharing. Have a happy new year.

      • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 days ago

        I mean I think the fear of death is really a function of fear of the unknown. Like I know a person IRL who had a near-death experience where she died for a few minutes and she basically said the same thing, i.e. I have some evidence to back up my suspicion that it’s “nothing”, but I think that people practically being able to resuscitated is kinda recent in human history? So I absolutely do understand how people can be afraid of death when they have absolutely no evidence to suspect that there’s no afterlife or anything else we’ve conjectured about death.

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          Fear of death is a survival instinct first and foremost I think.

          If you don’t care if you die, chance of dying grow. And, as you said, fear of the unknown adds to that.

          I don’t believe in the afterlife, but some people have near death experience, some people don’t. Who’s right? We won’t know until it’s our turn to die.