/sci/ - Science & Math

This might not be the right board to post this on. But I just want somebody to help me come to terms with me dying someday.

drug induced schizophrenia is your only option, good luck my friend

Ever gone to sleep and not remembered any of your dreams? Death will be like that time gap. It's not so bad, death, just the dying part. It's why I work in substations, if lucky I'll be vaporized and not feel much when I die. Better than lying in a hospital bed.

The universe itself is mortal

Do magic mushrooms it worked for me

(Serious)

But that is what scares me. Me one day just all of a sudden do not exist is the part the scares me.

>not looking forward to death

just wait a while

Some of you commenting are making me feel worse. Please stop. I am seriously asking for real answers

>>10343546
1) disregard ego
2)

>>10343546

you can spend your life working towards immortality tech. then you only die if you fail. youre in complete control of the situation.

>>10343552
That is one thing I've been thinking about but I don't know if I would be alive by the time they make it.

>>10343518
OP if you're really scared look up brain vitrification, its affordable to you if you're middle class and gives you a chance to come back... Maybe

>>10343518
>>>/church/

>>10343555
But even if I do cryogenically freeze myself and I wake up in the future I would still be mortal and that would just be slowing it. Not stopping it.

I don’t think there’s anywhere for us to die to

>>10343573
That doesn't help at all.

OP The understanding you're looking for is non-linguistic in nature and can only be brought about by certain spiritual experiences, possibly induced through (but not limited to) psychedelic states of mind. Nothing anyone says on here is going to enact some sort of change wherein you're suddenly okay with the concept of your own mortality.

>>10343560
If technology exists to rejuvenate a frozen brain, at the very least you'll be bought much more time, or exist in a man made electronic network, effectively immortal.

you will die and you will keep dying in every possible way until the probability of you still being alive goes down to 0%. Ever heard of quantum immortality?

>>10343518
Just imagine the worms wriggling down your pee hole and then feasting on your balls.

>>10343554
>they make it
>not devoting your life to making it

sad

>>10343579
Tough crowd

>>10343518
your body will do it for you after a while
you become desensitized to any fear from being constantly exposed to it, no matter how terrifying it is

>>10343518
Define yourself. Are you your body, and the constituent parts thereof? Are you your ideas, thoughts, and memories? Those things come in and out of existence all the time. They die constantly and have been doing so since you were born. What exactly will do the dying in your scenario?

>>10343541
underrated (or /sci/ is zoomers)

>>10343518

Relax!, in all likelihood you will be very old when the time comes. Just about everybody you know will be be very old and most already dead. Death will be a long desired eternal sleep. If most religions are correct, you will awaken one day to a young strong body in paradise.

Have a lot of life experiences. Live mostly in the now and if possible take psychedelics. I guarantee youll laugh at death after that

Look into near death experiences, the “P-Zombie argument”, the origins of the big bang. There are many aspects of life that could lead a belief of the paranormal

>>10343518
>>10343527
>>10343539
>>10343546

OP, are you afraid of what you believe death to imply, whether it is oblivion, eternal nothingness, an afterlife, hell, reincarnation, or the uncertainty of it all? Or are you afraid of death no matter what it is of those scenarios?

Either way, if you want a practical experience that might ease your fears, >>10343538 and >>10343788 are on the right track. For instance, I was shown that life is at least an ultrajoke. It really is ridiculous how seriously we take this role-playing experience, but that is also part of the immersiveness and the fun that we wanted to have. Believing the movie, video game, or book is real while you are experiencing it makes it more fun. You wanted to believe in the exclusivity of this world before you came here, so enjoy it!

>>10343518
>>10344003

Also, just because religions are demonstrably silly, it does not mean that materialism is true and that death implies oblivion. There is a tremendous amount of empirical evidence that suggests that our mind or consciousness continues past the point of physical death and that there is an infinitely amazing afterlife awaiting unconditionally around the corner of a ceased heartbeat for everyone.

Easily digestible tier:

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/day-i-died/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwyVFW9kT8k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw3oaNUR1iI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhANf60Y4Nk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W-PLmMwl2o
https://vimeo.com/7464750
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PX2x0FxDTs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzz-nG5pjFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnoIf2NwaRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5or66dI6akU

World-leading research tier:

http://www.horizonresearch.org/Uploads/Journal_Resuscitation__2_.pdf
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799144/m2/1/high_res_d/vol21-no1-5.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Near-Death-Experience-Consciousness-Survives/dp/1594773564/
https://www.amazon.com/Self-Does-Not-Die-Experiences/dp/0997560800/
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Dying-Peter-Fenwick/dp/0826499236/
https://trans4mind.com/spiritual/Does-consciousness.pdf

In essence, the purpose of these lives is to learn to be an infinitely loving and kind person despite the fact that the world is demonstrably shitty and it is really hard to develop character here. But the person who is infinitely happy, kind, loving, accepting, and forgiving while they are being tortured, to take the ultimate example, will quite figuratively explode from happiness in heaven. So use your challenges as gifts to develop your character. After all, you had the multiverse as your smorgasbord while you were still in paradise, and yet you chose this life; being this character, in this society, in this world.

>>10343518
This -> >>10343587
I have never felt fear of death (I have fears of geting cripled, being socialy excluded etc., but no death itself), so I really don't know how you feel. But one thing I can tell you - you are looking for right answers for the wrong questions. Death is very important part of life. Without death, life has no meaning. What would you do if you were imortal? What would you possobly do with this "gift"? Enjoy life, only than you will be able to enjoy death.

>>10344155

>Without death, life has no meaning. What would you do if you were imortal?

So you are essentially arguing that if a paradise afterlife exists, it must be meaningless to be infinitely happy forever.

Yeah, I do not buy that argument. Whenever I am deeply happy, I feel a lot of meaning, and zero absence thereof.

>>10343518
"Not yet knowing life, how may you know death?"
"Am I afraid to die, or am I more afraid to live?"

So on. All I can tell ya is it happens, and that's about it. Once life gets 'round to torturing you a bit more its meaning becomes clear, and its meaning becomes empty. All at once.

Death is everywhere, all the time. You cannot gain without losing. You cannot lose without gain. Destruction is an act of creation, creation is an act of destruction. Change entails both. When viewed in absolute terms, this is what is present in all frames.

Death just is. You get used to it and direct your efforts towards what matters while you can. Overarching fear of death just for the sake of it is the sure ticket to a life not worth living. Death should be feared for a reason.

>>10343518
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpHiCwztSqE
This one helps me get through some tough times, hope it helps.

>>10344176
Pic very related.

>>10344176
Temporary happiness is great, never ending happiness is a curse. I don't belive in afterlife, but still - if after death I go to a magical place where I am forever and ever super happy - would that be meaningful? Would that be something interesting? I am sure, that after some eternities in place like that, I would indeed wish for death.

I'm back. I just went to bed. sorry if I wasn't replying to your comments.

>>10344337
>Happy
>But wishing for death
I don't think you understand what true happiness encompasses

>>10343518
face your fears. only then can you overcome them

>>10344640
Everything that I do in this life, I do for happiness. When my daughter was born, it was the greatest moment of my life. I'm so glad I got over my fear of being a dad. This has rewarded me with happiness. Now I have difficulties to get enough money to satisfy all the needs of my family. I feel miserable. I have to fight, I have to work hard for my happiness. If someone gave me enternal happiness, I would not fight, I would not work hard, I would not overcome my fear. I would not have a daughter. Fuck that. At the pearly gates I would ask St. Peter to send me back. Heaven is for beta cucks.

>>10343657
The autism in me is screeching and I can't help it.
Pic is not a Cherub, that's a Putto
This is a Cherub, as it was originally intended

>>10343538
This, death is an illusion

>not wanting to die in this shitty world

Interesting.

>>10343518
not science or math

>>10344815
Is it? Seems pretty fucking real, and no dead people have said otherwise.

>>10343530
ahahah, it's funny because it's true. You'll very often want to die, so don't do that if you have a weak will or low IQ, for your sake.

>>10345163
That which is real is that which does not seem.

i am absolutely terrified of dying

i dont want to lose you

we have come so far, we learned so much. Its just not fair.

>>10345226
You seem like a fag, and are a fag. QED.

>>10343518
All you have to do is let Christ into your heart fren