Have you ever stopped to think about what comes after death? For some people, it's some version of heaven or hell. For others, it's nothing. When people say that there is nothing after death, I don't know if everyone truly comes to grips about how terrifying that is.
Your consciousness is what makes you who you are. It is everything. Your thoughts, your opinions, your interests, your viewpoints, these are all what make you uniquely you. If there is nothing after death, you will simply extinguish like a candle being blown out. Another life in the billions of lives the world has seen. You will not be able to regret, you will not be able to think, you will not be able to comprehend the emptiness of your current state. You will simply... cease to exist.
This is perhaps why people are so ready to embrace religion. Because it offers us an alternative to a void of nothingness. Pretty much every religion has you maintaining your consciousness, maintaining your life after death. Whether that place is good or bad, you will still be who you are, you will still have your memories and your mind. People are not afraid of dying, people are not afraid of eternal damnation; people are afraid of simply ceasing to exist. Even the prospect of spending the rest of eternity in a fiery pit of torture is more palatable for most people than simply disappearing.Never able to think, taste, see, hear, or smell for the rest of eternity.
Think about it while you still can think.
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