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I first experienced anxiety about the inevitability of death (or non-existing ever again) when I was sixteen. Grew up on atheist family so I never had the comfo

by huherto 12y ago

I first experienced anxiety about the inevitability of death (or non-existing ever again) when I was sixteen. Grew up on atheist family so I never had the comfort from religion. These are some of the ideas that have helped me along, in case is useful for anyone. Take what works for you, ignore the rest. 1- Don't spend too much time thinking about it. Your time is short, it is silly to waste it worrying. You cannot do much about it anyway. 2- Death is the price you pay for living. Be grateful that you had the chance. It is truly a miracle that you are even alive. 3- Enjoy life and leave a legacy. It can be as simple and as important as the way you lived your life. Your example. 4- All the evidence tells me that there is not an afterlife. But I still save a little hope. There may be things that are unknowable. May be on the form of your 1) area. So, who knows.

proveanegative 12y ago
>Death is the price you pay for living. Be grateful that you had the chance. It is truly a miracle that you are even alive. Of course, the price you pay for living is not just death at the end of your life but also suffering throughout. Just how much suffering you will experience depends on many random factors the effects of some of which (like genetics and early childhood environment) are either very difficult or impossible to mitigate. The hardest question to confront is whether the price of living is one worth paying. The antinatalists among us think that the answer to that question is generally a "no".
- hw 12y ago
  As much as we ask ourselves whether the price of living is one worth paying, more than often we would prefer to pay down due to the inherent nature of survival in us all. Even for those who experience a lot of suffering that possibly brings one to prefer death, whether one thinks that life is worth living is subjective. It not only depends on how much suffering you experience, but how much you value everything else relative to suffering.
  - proveanegative 12y ago
    Sure, you can make that judgement for yourself, if under the pressure from your self-preservation instinct. The antianalist argument of the kind summarized in [1] concerns not your continued living but whether you should bring new beings into the world. One can't ask one's unborn children to consent to be born and hence to suffer. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism, "Moral Responsibility".
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by huherto 12y ago

proveanegative 12y ago

>Death is the price you pay for living. Be grateful that you had the chance. It is truly a miracle that you are even alive. Of course, the price you pay for living is not just death at the end of your life but also suffering throughout. Just how much suffering you will experience depends on many random factors the effects of some of which (like genetics and early childhood environment) are either very difficult or impossible to mitigate. The hardest question to confront is whether the price of living is one worth paying. The antinatalists among us think that the answer to that question is generally a "no".

hw 12y ago
As much as we ask ourselves whether the price of living is one worth paying, more than often we would prefer to pay down due to the inherent nature of survival in us all. Even for those who experience a lot of suffering that possibly brings one to prefer death, whether one thinks that life is worth living is subjective. It not only depends on how much suffering you experience, but how much you value everything else relative to suffering.
- proveanegative 12y ago
  Sure, you can make that judgement for yourself, if under the pressure from your self-preservation instinct. The antianalist argument of the kind summarized in [1] concerns not your continued living but whether you should bring new beings into the world. One can't ask one's unborn children to consent to be born and hence to suffer. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism, "Moral Responsibility".

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