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Whenever it seems hopeless I always think to myself "It's okay, I'm going to die."

>>5301294
That almost seems paradoxical, though

>>5301270

>How do you cope with your own mortality?

what's there to cope with? only people who believe in a fiery hell have something to worry about

>Do you try to intellectualize your life in order to make sense out of it? Do you distract yourself with visceral things like sex and drugs? Or do you do something in between?

all of the above

>Can any one life path really be 'better' than another after they've ended?

sure, why not? if "better" even makes sense at all, regarding life paths, what difference does it make that these paths end? there was a time when they weren't ended, that was the time when one of them was better than the other.

>>5301270
>How do you cope with your own mortality?

I don't need to cope with it since I'm not trying to achieve anything extravagant in life.

At most death will just interrupt me making a sandwich, going to work, having sex, reading a book, etc...
Nothing important enough for me to do worry about.

>>5301270 (OP)
>How do you cope with your own mortality?

I don't need to cope with it since I'm not trying to achieve anything ridiculous or extravagant in life.

At most death will just interrupt me making a sandwich, going to work, having sex, reading a book, etc...big deal.

>>5301335

>I don't need to cope
>...big deal

You're trying not to sound defeated yet you're coming across as completely crushed.

Not that I really blame you, though.

I avoid dealing with it.

Whenever I think about it, the thought comes into my head about the experience of nothingness -- which is impossible to experience -- and I get this strange feeling in my brainpan, and it's just not fun.

I don't deal with it. I freak the absolute fuck out. Then my panic makes me wish I were dead. And then I don't care, 'cause I know it will happen.

Rinse and repeat.

>>5301356

Sprinkle liberal amounts of loneliness over every step and you've summed it up quite nicely.

>>5301348
you did experience it before you were born though

>>5301385
>experiencing non-experience

Since nothing in the world is likely to be as great as me I have decided not to die.

>>5301270
Marijuana and apathy.

lose my self

now I got nothing to lose

>>5301270
Be happy with the fact that you got to experience being alive. Every moment, every emotion, every person is beautiful; even extreme sadness. It is a privilege to be capable of suffering. Such is the human condition. You are not owed constant happiness, you don't deserve constant happiness, but you get to be alive, and you get to experience slipping into nothingness once again.

>>5301481
>every person is beautiful

this is literally and metaphorically wrong.

>>5301489
You are correct. I'm not sure what I was thinking.

>>5301335
in a way you are trying to deal with by saying that it not a big deal. you are repressing your death anxiety.

>>5301499
>in a way you are trying to deal with by saying that it not a big deal. you are repressing your death anxiety.

To me death is just an interruption. But if I'm not really doing anything you can't interrupt me. If I'm not going anywhere specific I can't get lost.

I don't want to live forever, but I'd like an extra hundred years or so. I eat healthy and stay fit in the hopes that by my seventies or eighties indefinite life extension will be commonplace.