• DyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    I can't not worry about my inevitable death. There are a lot of really horrible ways to go, and oblivion in itself is terrifying. I don't think my mind was meant to contemplate the end of its existence

    • TheDialectic [none/use name]
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      8 months ago

      Nah, the cool thing is we can't die. Or well we probably can't. If you die you don't exist anymore. If you don't exist you can't be dead. So you can never die.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        8 months ago

        glad to see somebody else expressing this

        biggest fear is your conscious experience just pauses until the universe goes through some HUGE NUMBER to the POWER OF MORE HUGE NUMBERS of iterations (singularity, big bang, expansion, decay, quantum tunneling event, big bang again) until you plop right back into that iteration exact in nearly every way and just restart.

        maybe you live your life again but there are tiny differences but you don't remember because you were briefly decoupled from your squishy brain and all the memories inside it

        be cooler if you just slip into a dis associated state where the last microsecond of consciousness just becomes stretched to infinity like you are entering a black hole but you basically give birth to your own tiny universe to exist in

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      8 months ago

      You don't have to and it's senseless to do so. It happens and you can't control it at all aside from delaying it potentially. It's the most whatever happens happens deal. I'm not into dying but I've experienced more than enough to know it's a thing that happens what the hell and sucks but thsrs literally all there is to it.