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The great thing about death is that you won’t experience it. You’ve never experienced non-existence before and you never will. Being dead is just not something
by md224 9y ago
The great thing about death is that you won’t experience it. You’ve never experienced non-existence before and you never will. Being dead is just not something you’ll ever have to deal with.
This won’t be a popular view here, but lately I’ve begun to think that consciousness isn’t the kind of thing that can end. I used to think death was just inconceivable, but now I wonder if it’s fundamentally incoherent. I think one could make a phenomenological argument for the immortality of the pure self/ego (Husserl said some interesting things about this), but I won’t get into that here.
Either way, don’t worry about things you will never experience. :)
- trophycase 9y agoYes. You can't "be" dead, because to be dead means not to be. If to "be" is to be conscious, then you can't "be" unconscious.
- bradknowles 9y agoWith respect, I disagree. You won’t experience what happens after you die, but you will certainly experience the process of dying. Being dead doesn’t scare me. But the concept of the process of dying scares the crap out of me.