I've been going through a total existential crisis for awhile. I'm terrified of death. Both for myself and my loved ones. And because of this pandemic, every time I feel weird I get a panic attack. I've run through every single religion desperate to find some way to find peace with my mortality, but nothing felt right. Is there any philosophy out there that can help me find peace?
You didn't exist for basically infinity time before you were born. Death is just more of the same, really
So this comment gets posted a lot in these discussions, but I don't think it makes any fucking sense at all.
Like, sure I wasn't alive before being born, but because of that, I didn't know what being alive was. I didn't exist. Now that I do, I'm not so keen on losing that awareness.
It's one of those statements that maybe sounds wise, but is pretty fucking useless, IMO. No offense intended, it just doesn't work for me.
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doesn't help with the transition, of losing ones awareness to death, but gives you a pretty good idea of what it'll be like afterward, which you've already "experienced". but sure, different folks different strokes also this
I feel the same as OP and anytime I hear this it's not very helpful, not to rag on your specifically. The issue for me isn't so much the not existing part but thinking about the fact that I will no longer experience anything. Not very eloquent, but it's hard for me to put into words.
I know transhumanists get shit on for plenty of perfectly valid reasons, but if someone offered for me to be cryosleeped to be brought back or the opportunity to be loaded into a computer I'd take it without missing a beat. I can't wrap my head around just being over.