Death Isn’t Scary

Dennis
Dennis
Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read

It’s kind of weird isn’t it? The natural instinct for survival instilled deep within human nature. Why do we feel the need to constantly keep ourselves alive, and If we don’t why is it seen as a defect if we don’t. Someone who honestly attempts to commit suicide is considered “not in their right mind” but on what basis? Truly Death isn’t what we should be afraid of. Pain is an altogether different matter but death is entirely unknown. Who’s to say that death isn’t pleasant, welcoming, or even enjoyable? Not that I plan to die anytime soon but I don’t believe we should be afraid of death.

According to the first law of thermodynamics nothing can be created or destroyed, only change form. Therefore prior to birth we ( as humans) were someTHING, we were a different thing than we are now but we were at some point one thing. If death is the converse action of birth than again we will become something different than this current thing that we are now. (I’m sure I’m not making any sense at this point) regardless, the scariest thing about existence is existence itself. Following the idea the nothing can be destroyed death is not an end, just another change. The only reason we don’t fear birth is because we’ve already experienced it, but realisticly Birth is scarier than death because relative to our conscious selves (assuming that after death we are still “conscious”) is the beginning of eternity. The Idea of eternity forces us to ask if we’ve already existed in other forms for eternity past and will continue to exist after death which if so whatever it is should be scary.

Constantly existing is weird…

Why did i even write this?

Dennis

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