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0 pointsnullsense5y ago0 comments

"it holds no more horror than pre-birth" is an excellent way to phrase how I think/feel about it. I wasn't able to be bothered by it then, and I won't be able to be bothered by it when it happens. I'm only able to be bothered by it now, so I mostly choose not to be bothered by it even now.

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ericmay5y ago· 2 in thread

You weren’t bothered by it because you had no previous experience of life.

I think some (maybe many?) people aren’t afraid of “being dead” they’re afraid of all the things they know exist and are enjoyable.

Life is the greatest, and most tragic blessing. Once you know you can’t un-know.

nullsenseOP5y ago

You can unknow at the point you no longer posses the capacity to know. Which is why pre-birth and post-life are the same.

The mistake is in projecting the current emotions of attachment to the current capacity to experience all the things to a time where no such capacity exists. If you do that you will feel afraid of death in this way. If you see pre-birth as fundamentally exactly the same as post-life and aren't bothered by the pre-birth phase, then you have no problems.

ericmay5y ago

It’s not fear of being dead once you’re dead, it’s fear of losing all of these joys in life while you’re alive and knowing that it’s all going away.

I’m only not bothered by pre-birth because I wasn’t alive to understand the wonderful existence I have now.

It’s like being at a great party but knowing that your ride home is coming soon. I’d rather stay at the party.

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