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Originally Posted by John
Thing is, you've already experience oblivion. Indeed, you've experienced 13.7 billion years worth of it. It could hardly have been so bad, since you don't remember it, eh?
Just picture what you felt five years before you were born. That's what oblivion is like. Hardly a traumatizing experience, eh?
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I love what you just said. I often think of that in the past to what it felt like
before you were born, and yes, it's oblivion.
Personally I have no fear in death. I just see it as falling asleep, but forever.
But it's the way I die that can frighten me. Dying of old age is something I have no fear in, but if it comes to being held hostage with a gun pointed to your head, yes that is scary or being tortured to death.
When it comes to my religious views, I do believe that there is an afterlife, so maybe that stops most religious people from fearing death. But it's hard to think that way if before you were born, it was totally nothing. But in a way since you lived your life, that could lead you to someplace else because of who you are and how life shaped you... It's so hard to ponder on.
Perhaps death is the same principle.