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> You're still alive after a party and could go to another. Hmm. What I’ve said is basically that it’s the only party - but that’s to evoke a feeling not to be
by ericmay 6y ago
> You're still alive after a party and could go to another.
Hmm. What I’ve said is basically that it’s the only party - but that’s to evoke a feeling not to be taken literally.
> You’re still projecting your aliveness onto the dead state
I’m not sure I follow. Can you elaborate? I’m speaking about specifically being alive and enjoying that, not fearing death in the act of being dead. I fear death as an alive person, not as a dead person.
When I say I fear death it’s not that I fear being dead. There won’t be anything. But as an alive person I know there’s lots of awesome stuff I’d like to be a part of. I would like to continue that experience. I don’t care what death holds.
- nullsense 6y agoTo summarise "don't think about it". Why do you fear it as an alive person? I get that you do, and I can make myself feel this way too if I indulge that same frame of reference. But why do you feel those emotions? Losing something hurts. But why do you feel bad about that loss? Most likely it's because you _can_ feel bad about it while you are alive. And, I certainly get that. It does make sense. But I see it as a fundamental error to feel this sense of loss about not being able to enjoy all the experiences of being alive because as a rule I take into account the fundamental state change that occurs after I'm dead. I look at that period only from the perspective of being dead, as that's how I'll be. If you look at being dead from the perspective of being alive, a frame in which you have emotions you can feel, then it feels bad, but this is some sort of strange faux-state that doesn't actually exist in reality as once you're dead you're dead, and while you're alive you're not dead. You're mixing aliveness and deadness together where I choose to cleanly separate them. I don't think about being dead from the perspective of being alive or having had been alive.
- ericmay 6y agoDon’t take this as an ill-intention comment but if you live with the perspective of a dead person why not just kill yourself? Why would you care and why would it matter if you do? Like what’s the point of being alive with such an outlook?