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Books to overcome intense death anxiety.

wow umm.. my entire purpose in life was a lie. a life-lie. a yet it is essential for my sanity? I don't know what to do with this information

How does one cope after reading this book? Where do you even go from here?

>>17143480
>He was right wasn't he?
Yes.... and No

Will this make me depressed or set me free?

pic related will take the pressure off. then you just have to read the stoics

You are a slave to your fear

Doing drugs is a legitimate life decision. The only problem is losing control of your habits and then not optimizing hedonism in the long-term. It's embarrassing and in inconveniencing to others. Same with having a kid. It's an incredible challenge. If you fail, you've robbed someone of a childhood and possibly their entire life. It's an extremely high-pressure mode to play in. Some don't realize what they signed up for. It is unfortunate that those who question the value of existence itself are usually the best parents. People who take the creation of life lightly are unlikely to meet their full potential as parents.


Basically if you're against factory farming for moral reasons you should be against human reproduction as well, under current conditions.
THE primary disconnect here is that people do not acknowledge the domesticated sapien as livestock. It certainly is livestock, but acknowledgement is bad for business. So, make them think life is good. Encourage the healthy to breed. discourage the troublemakers. No matter what you do, antinatalists lose. Thru don't even want you to breed. You're too dysfunctional. You're hurting productivity with your weird behavior. luckily you will willing choose to go extinct. no conflict. the system marches on. your sacrifice will mean absolutely nothing. one less baby from you makes room for one more from someone else. resources are limited.

>>17062586
>a way for men to immortalize themselves after death, similar to how the poets boast about their power to immortalize people in verse.

Maybe for the Greeks, but surely does not apply to all Romans
Evidence:

>Soon you will have forgotten everything; soon everything will have forgotten you.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.21

>He who gets excited about fame after death doesn’t consider that anyone who remembers him will also die very soon, then again the one who succeeds that one, until all recollection has been extinguished by passing through a succession of people who foolishly admire and perish.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.19

>Or is it this thing called reputation that worries you? Look at the speed with which everything is forgotten; the vast gulf of boundless time on either side of us; the emptiness of applause; the changeable, undiscriminating nature of those who seem to praise; the tiny space in which it all takes place.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.3

What does one read after this ? I also have read the much shorter and better The Last Messiah (1933) by Zapffe.
Where do you go after seeing through to the other side? I can't imagine how to build on this. Also interested in counter-arguments against it

I understood what he wanted to say but going through his words are very painful. Is it a necessity to complete the full book to fully grasp the author’s intentions?

Anyone else read this? I just finished it and now I know that life is an asspull more then anything.

Anyone read this?

>>13592135
Every single person was plagued by death, and this is the book they should have read

More like the cure to existential crisis but I guess it can give you one then cure it.

Thoughts on this book? Is it just too meta to bother talking about?

why the FUCK did you tell me to read this? how the fuck am i supposed go on now? i have no idea what’s real.

The only reason picrelated has virtually zero discussion is because its true and nobody wants to hear about it