> Fear of death is not rational. I vehemently disagree. From the human to the amoeba, avoiding death is our primary instinct. It might not make philosophical

> Fear of death is not rational. I vehemently disagree. From the human to the amoeba, avoiding death is our primary instinct. It might not make philosophical sense to fear death, but on a biological sense, it is the utmost priority, and any organism would benefit from having an innate, irrational, all-consuming fear of its life ceasing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-preservation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-preservation Accepting your death is a learned behaviour, not innate. Either because you know that it will happen shortly, or because of high-order rationalisation such as meditation, reading a lot of philosophy books or believing in abstract concepts such as afterlife. It all depends on your definition of rationality: if you "think" about it, there's no reason to fear death. But if your entire physical being had a say, as it should, as we are more than just pure thought, death is the antithesis of life itself, and must be avoided at all cost.