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Anonymous Fri May 19 06:59:22 2023 No.22048882 [Reply] [Original]

What can help me overcome my fear of death?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 07:00:27 2023 No.22048883 >>22048882 Having something to die for

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 07:01:22 2023 No.22048885 Imagine being scared of something that happens to every living thing

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 07:03:56 2023 No.22048890 >>22048885 I’m scared of taking a shit

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 07:04:10 2023 No.22048891 Nothing, hopefully

Anonymous Fri May 19 07:08:11 2023 No.22048901

T 1670B Nāgasena Bhikṣu Sūtra
Part 2: Dialogues

2.42. On Nirvana

The king asked Nāgasena, “What is nirvana? Is it that all having gone past, there will be no more becoming?”

Nāgasena replied, “Nirvana is that in which there is no more becoming. Ignorant people come yearning for and craving for (the sense pleasures of) the inner and outer bodies.

Therefore they are not set free from old age, sickness and death.” Nāgasena continued, “Wise men, those who have learned the Dharma, do not cling to the internal and external pleasures of the body, and also have no craving. Having no craving, they have no sense desire. Having no sense desire, they have no pregnancy. Having no pregnancy, there is no birth and no old age. Having no birth and no old age, there is no sickness and no death. Having no sickness (and no death), they have no grief, no lamentation; having no grief and no lamentation, they have no inner pain, they thus obtain nirvana.”

>>	Sag Fri May 19 07:13:52 2023 No.22048924 File: 18 KB, 350x303, IMG_0798.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] When life gives you lemons make lemonade.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 07:16:41 2023 No.22048933 File: 257 KB, 720x429, Screenshot_20230519_031454_Firefox.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22048882 >he still thinks death is real even though he's never seen it happen

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 07:20:04 2023 No.22048945 >>22048901 you forgot this part: >having no rants about reddit tier religions, there is no cringe funny how you excluded that part

Anonymous Fri May 19 07:25:22 2023 No.22048953

>>22048883
It doesn't bury the pain or fear.
>>22048885
Of course I am, eternal oblivion. The thought alone makes me want to puke.
>>22048901
I know very well what it says, I can't accept it.
I know it's a metaphor. SAMSARA
My problem is eternal oblivion, never again.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 07:54:30 2023 No.22049001 fear of annihilation or fear of pain?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 07:56:10 2023 No.22049003 Christ

Anonymous Fri May 19 08:12:05 2023 No.22049047

>>22048882
If you live long enough, life will get repetitive and kinda boring. You'll get to a certain point where its more painful to be alive than it is dead. I don't mean depression. I mean overall exhaustion. At this point, death will feel good and you'll welcome it. It will feel right. If youre under 40, this won't make any sense at all. But one day it will. Don't die early. Dying early sucks.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 08:14:15 2023 No.22049055 >>22048882 Bible

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 08:16:02 2023 No.22049061 >>22048885 Being rejected by someone you like hurts, anon. I know people will be laughing "haha ugly bitch scared rejection!" But no cap fr

>>	Strange Love Fri May 19 09:05:07 2023 No.22049134 File: 43 KB, 392x445, beyond_the_wrong_doors.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22048953 >The thought alone makes me want to puke. Why ... can tell you it is rather nice and comfy out in the void. :)

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 09:12:36 2023 No.22049145 >>22048882 Have a child. Cured me for some reason.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 12:30:24 2023 No.22049474 File: 21 KB, 300x400, 1671448209729587.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22048883 this

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 12:31:26 2023 No.22049477 >>22048924 When life gives you death, deathonate!

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 12:31:29 2023 No.22049478 >>22048882 Become Hindu.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 12:32:01 2023 No.22049481 >>22048882 Leaves of Grass

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 13:16:57 2023 No.22049584 Devote your life to something else. Start a family. Raise children, raise them right and you will be a memory to them forever.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 15:14:39 2023 No.22050001 >>22049584 OP here, climate change and future famine, economical collapse. It's over.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 15:16:42 2023 No.22050012 Watch NDE testimonies on YouTube for a taste of the joy on the other side.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 15:20:00 2023 No.22050033 >>22050001 With that attitude you deserve to fear death!

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 15:47:03 2023 No.22050177 >>22050001 It's never over. Only ups and downs. We happen to be on the down part of the ride atm. >>22050012 This. Just a ride. Play it well, and enjoy the fruits on the other side.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 19:21:13 2023 No.22051100 File: 37 KB, 314x393, hydegger.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22048882 Unironically Heidegger. His brilliant cogitations on death are one of the few aspects of Being and Time that he didn't have to heavily rework in his later thought.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 19:36:35 2023 No.22051141 File: 665 KB, 1520x2344, 91OQ94ZeUWL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22048882

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 19:43:02 2023 No.22051161 Definitely not this article. If anything it'll make it much worse. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sv6ZChzT5Y89XDmZA/i-want-to-die-in-an-infinite-universe-how-philosophy-led-me

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 19:44:13 2023 No.22051168 File: 421 KB, 1920x768, boethius.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 20:12:35 2023 No.22051259 >>22048882 How do you feel thinking about the time before your birth?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 21:05:14 2023 No.22051465 >>22051259 I don't think about it, indifferent, it didn't matter. I've got a taste of existence now.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 21:09:11 2023 No.22051480 >>22048882 gaslight yourself into believing there is anything after death, which there isnt

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 23:54:14 2023 No.22052024 >>22051100 >>22051141 >>22051168 Thanks

Anonymous Sat May 20 00:02:50 2023 No.22052058

>>22048882
Getting busy with something to the point you forget about it. Any attempt at coping with it by tackling it directly will lose its power after not too much time. Think occasionally about the fact that you'll eventually die, since this gives you some perspective and keeps you grounded, then go and do something else so it you aren't overwhelmed by this reality.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 00:04:08 2023 No.22052067 >>22048882 The fact that "you" is just a very specific pattern of matter and there is a nonzero chance that in the far future this specific pattern will be reconstructed and "you" will be here again.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 01:06:38 2023 No.22052326 >>22051161 I believe we are the electricity on the flesh.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 02:58:48 2023 No.22052595 >>22048882 If athiest than find God Few things are more disgusting and sad than an athiest that fears death

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 03:13:59 2023 No.22052629 >>22048882 Whiskey. Lots and lots of whiskey.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 03:59:38 2023 No.22052751 >>22048882 I wish for death daily, these subhumans have ruined everything

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 04:57:39 2023 No.22052883 >>22048882 Listen to enough near death experiences on youtube and you will realize that an afterlife is most likely real and not just a brain hallucination.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 04:58:40 2023 No.22052886 >>22052883 Also find your purpose and meaning in this life and you will find yourself burning with a zest for life and not fearing death so much anymore. This is what happened to me when I started writing my own books.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 20 07:25:20 2023 No.22053126 File: 50 KB, 605x818, flowers-look-like-animals-people-monkeys-orchids-pareidolia-9.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] magic mushrooms in a forest setting

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