You're going to die, Anon. You're going to die and cease to exist forever. Some things may never happen, this one will. An eternity of nothingness awaits you, a whole day nearer now. Nothing more terrible, nothing more true.
How do you respond without coping?
I look forward to it to be quite honest famalam
time to goon
>An eternity of nothingness awaits you
Oh, you know this for a fact do you? Excellent, but where may i ask is the evidence for this statement?
Occam's Razor
I will have sex and make children as my ancestors did, ever since they were a bunch of chemicals.
thank god I hate being alive
>going to
but I am not dead in the present while Larkin is
Everything is a cope in some way. Our problem is that we’ve conceived of this image of death as some sort of malevolent force which it’s not. Art consistently portrays death and thanatophobia via images of blackness, minimalism, and skulls, which evoke feelings of despair and nihilism. But the reality is death is only frightening in brief moments where the mind fails to comprehend eternity and when you’re young and have an almost fairy tale view of life. Once you start to actually break down and get tired easily it becomes less frightening, not even out of hatred towards life but as a hopeful desire for release.
I mean, I wake up every morning, and in my half awake mind state, I ALWAYS imagine how amazing it would feel to sleep in longer. To sleep in forever because sometimes it feels nice to not be aware. And it feels great to rest. Obviously, I would love for there to be something, but as I get older the less I view death as some evil.
There is nothing. In your final moments, the full realisation of this fact will terrify you beyond all reason.
>Thomas Ligotti
Well, I can confidently throw this opinion in the trash.
Cope
>humanities
A horror story writer is not a serious philosopher or historian. Quit fricking around.
Ligotti is the most important philosopher alive today. This is not your safe space you coward.
Okay bud.
so true thats why all NDE people say they felt happy
Death by old age is a "modern" luxury
Before civilization you either die of illness or of injuries
get drunk and jump off a bridge then
I just did and I was fine.
find a taller bridge then, if death is meaningless to you you should be able to commit suicide
Cool. I hope I leave the world a slightly better place for those I care about.
cope
My granpa did for me
Good
Nah, nothingness sounds nice. No more stress about the 300k I'm in debt or the job I need to wake up and do tomorrow.
>An eternity of nothingness awaits you
Why do people always assume they will even be councious to experience it? You're dead. You cease to exist, you cease to experience sensations, passage of time, you cease to experience anything. Want to know what dyings like? Go to sleep. Thats whats dyings like. One day you'll just fall asleep and not wake up.
The leading up to dying might be the hard part. Most people meet death with a grace that everyone around them and even themselves find unfitting of their character. Most think they'll be despairing and wailing and banging at the walls "Oh why me?!" but most people are rather accepting of death given they get to face death with some grace.
I dont remember where I read it, but people who are highly narcissistic or have narcissistic personality disorder are usually the ones who are the worst when it comes to facing death. Maybe perhaps because in their mind, all life cease to exist when they perish because they cant really fathom a world that doesnt exist only for them, all though it would probably flatter them if the world would end as an result of their death, it would fulfill their ultimate wish of being the center of which the world revolves around. Maybe they have great regrets about all they should have accomplished and didnt become the greatest thing since jesus and everyone will forget them after a month or two.
Most people become less narcissistic with age, hence they manage to accept death with more dignity, narcissists only become more narcissistic.
*destroys your argument*
This isnt about death, but regret
>I am scared of nothingness
Aight, he can write a poem about it. Doesn't mean I feel the same.
I'm not a dumb ant tho, I have a ego
I tell him to frick off, because atheists are all moronic homosexuals and israelites on par with bible-thumping cucks, who think they are smart.
we are gonna achieve immortality sooner than any of you think