In articles like this, everyone crawls out of the woodwork to brag about how they don’t fear death. I don’t believe it for a minute. The number of people who c

In articles like this, everyone crawls out of the woodwork to brag about how they don’t fear death. I don’t believe it for a minute. The number of people who could have a loaded gun staring them in the face and truly not feel the slightest bit of fear has to be minuscule. Humans just wouldn’t have made it this far otherwise. What I think is scarier than the concept of non-existence though is the possibility that our universe might be cyclical; i.e., that its evolution would repeat over and over again an infinite number of times. Imagine all of the suffering that you’ve ever experienced happening again, indefinitely. Or the Holocaust repeating. Or slavery. Just thinking about the idea of an endless, cyclical universe is almost sickening. I much prefer the other theories of how the universe might end.