I’m not afraid of death, I’m in love with life.
Cool Bug Fact #47
Submitted 2 weeks ago by OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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SuperApples@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Well no, I haven’t experienced it. Experiencing something is only possible with some kind of sensory organ - of which I had none before I developed them in this life. Not to mention any data “I” may have gathered back then was thoroughly erased so it doesn’t affect this life in any way.
whoxtank28@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We have near analogies that are close enough for us to have an idea. Anesthesia, being knocked out, dreamless sleep are closest to what we would consider “experiencing” oblivion. We can correlate the lack of experience or consiousness to the what we “experienced” prior to existing.
I get what you mean though, we can experience a transition out of and into non-experience, but cannot, as a matter of course, experience non-experience. There is no good reason (by my measure) to believe that there is anything other than just non-experience in the before and after phase of life. To the individual consciousness there is no discernable difference either. The matter/energy you are made of existed prior to and will continue to exist after you are gone, all that will be left is your memetic and causal imprint on our small bubble of reality.
Naich@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I’m afraid I’ll have to go through all this shit again.
Soulphite@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Fun fact, according to other beliefs, you’ve already been through this shit infinitely. Only the YOU in this moment realizes this one.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There isn’t really an effective ‘you’ then is there?
darthsundhaft@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I wasn’t aware of the abyss before being born. Now that I’m alive, I can feel a certain way about it.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No.
RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Reminds me of the Mark Twain quote: “Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.”
Or as I explained to the head of my church when I was 19 and he asked me how I could not fear death if I did not believe in an afterlife: “I’m not scared of the idea of eternal nothingness after I die. Nothing can’t be scary, because that’s something, and then it wouldn’t be nothing.”
weps@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
being dead is the fine
it’s the dying part that’ll kill ya
cuerdo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Live is a drug, once you try it, you cant have enough
MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I prefer to say it’s habit forming. Better captures the battle with with the parts of you that want to quit
insanemantis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If nonexistence was temporary before birth, surely it won’t be temporary after birth
Yeah it’ll be a hella long time sure
But you won’t feel how long it was. You’ll just be born again with a new and different existence
CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Not what infinite time means or implies.
insanemantis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How can you have infinite time to do something and never, ever do it?
There’s no such thing as a perfectly zero percent chance of anything. Roll enough times, roll 52! times or Googolplex times and you’ll see the most crazy shit happen
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Assumes the universe can’t reach a static state that it remains in forever. Final shape, if you will.
insanemantis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You talking about the inevitable heat death of the universe?
Yeah there’s a 100% chance that it won’t stay like that. Just a matter of time until whatever caused the atoms and energies to become clumpy and imperfect is going to do it again in some big or small way. There’s no beginning and end to the universe, which means that it has existed for an infinite amount of time, which also means that heat deaths must have happened before
Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Everything has already happened and will always happen, over and over again in incomprehensible stretches of time that the human brain is not capable of quantifying
Worstdriver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because now I know the difference and… I don’t want to go.
DrSoap@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oof. Right through the heart.
ImWaitingForRetcons@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A common saying on Roman tombs/graves:
Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo; often abbreviated as NFFSNNC.
It means, ‘I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.’
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“IDKIDGAF”
trojanbark@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Facts does not need an apostrophe as it is neither possessing anything nor contracting with anything
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
That’s the name of the pub owned by Cool Big Fact. It’s where a drunk person wearing red boxing gloves (as depicted in OP’s picture) is talking your ear off about what comes or doesn’t come after death, trying to convince themselves more than you that there’s nothing to fear.
trojanbark@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
oh
softwarist@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Fact’s is a contraction for “Cool Bug Fact’s”
Godric@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Another reason not to fear death: pedants don’t comment on shitpost formatting!
Delusions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Because I don’t remember experiencing the nothingless void… But if I go by the feelings I have when I think about it which is dread it must have been awful
Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not afraid of being dead, it’s the actual dying that’s terrifying.
Duranie@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Working in hospice and working with people as they approach their transition and end of their experience here, there’s a touch of comfort and anxiety watching the many ways people can go. There are definitely preferred ways to go, and some that are heartbreaking, and some that I would personally find terrifying. Don’t fear comfort meds. They’re there for a reason.
Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m an infantry combat veteran and my experiences with death lean more towards the violent. My only real goal is to live long enough to die naturally as the other ways all seem rather unpleasant, but if assuming I don’t make it to a ripe old age, then I just hope it’s quick.
sundray@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Afraid? On the contrary, it takes everything I’ve got to not get their early.
P1k1e@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The void is fine, its actually preferable to the other stated alternatives. I fear the pain on my way there, and the pain my absence may bring to those I care for
sompreno@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The fear of death is more than the fear of experiencing death. Its also about the fears of not accomplishing enough, the fear of leaving loved ones alone and many more things.
Krono@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
The void is not frightening, it’s comfy and warm. I go there every night.
Death is not frightening, it is only a moment.
What is truly terrifying, Cool bug, is eternity.
RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
After bug is the same as before bug.
You have already experienced the loss of bug. Do not fear the absence of bug.
flandish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
directions unclear, bug now lodged in rectum.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
no you got it right
RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Bug where bug belongs
Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I have big FOMO. Its something Im working on
NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Alan Watts made a few points like this. Very interesting.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I love this about bugs.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m afraid of the psychopath who used an apostrophe there
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A very good and well soothed explanation of what happens in the process of dying:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZDDByT0Vr0
If you are afraid this video may help.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The grammatically incorrect apostrophe in the title is really rustling my jimmies.
carin_heron@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m going to save this and send it to a friend or family member who trusts me dearly, while they’re having a bad trip.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Its funnier when they trust you 😂
orenj@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Thanks bug. Im always saying this
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
its called a “nothingness void” for a reason
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
To quote (or more likely paraphrase, it’s been a while) Dan from the Game Grumps … I’m not afraid of being dead. I’m afraid of dying.
prism@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m not afraid of it, I just don’t have it in me to try again.
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not afraid of death. I’m afraid of dying. Once you’re dead it’s easy.
Viceversa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You don’t know it. Maybe it’s eternally terrifying after.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Nobody knows for sure. However, what we do know for sure is that we’re all going to die some day, and scientific analysis lends more credence to nothing than eternal terror. So why would you worry about it? Assume the more likely, and more desirable outcome, rather than spending your days fearing a remote possibility.