Just accept reality as it is.  Life is a natural part of the life cycle.  Everything dies.   That's reality.  Stop pretending your own personal desires have any bearing on reality.

I just think we won't know once it's happened. If all our achievements in life will be irrelevant after we die, then so will our fears about death.

I take more comfort in thinking I flat out won't exist than the thought of burning in Hell.

I got over it because there is no point in worrying about things you have no control over.

I didn't worry about it for the 14.7 billion years I didn't exist up until a few decades ago, won't worry about it after I am gone.

Sure I was a bit upset about the thought of my consciousness ending when I first came to terms with death. I mean, I enjoy living, I'd like to continue doing it as long as possible.

The party won't end when I die. It will continue on, just without me.

The carefree days are over,
no more time to look back.
The threshold of the past, today,
keeps on pushing, moving on.

Time can't wash us away
if we turn our dreams into truth.

So what are you doing today
that no one else has ever done before?
Have you held on to your dreams?
Are they worth living for?

(August 5, 2015 at 8:15 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: Since I am not an atheist, not sure if I should answer this, but I deal with death in the same as I deal with sleep on a friday night, that is, not freakin bothering about next morning.

Now you have me intrigued.  Is there any name or description for where you stand regarding matters religious?

(August 5, 2015 at 10:44 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote:

(August 5, 2015 at 8:15 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: Since I am not an atheist, not sure if I should answer this, but I deal with death in the same as I deal with sleep on a friday night, that is, not freakin bothering about next morning.

Now you have me intrigued.  Is there any name or description for where you stand regarding matters religious?

"Not an atheist" means "a theist."  Double negation does that.  That does not mean that Aoi Magi will accept what follows logically, but it is what it means to be "not an atheist."

(August 4, 2015 at 9:52 pm)Shuffle Wrote: This question is obviously directed towards my fellow atheists, hence why it is in the Atheism Sub Forum.

Anyway, how did you get over the thought of dying? After the huge support structure called "Religion" was taken away from your life, how did you get over the thought of everything you have ever done having no effect on the Universe as a whole. Or everything ever done by anyone is going to be completely destroyed by the inevitable heat death of the Universe.

Personally I feel that, because of all of our fates, it makes life even more precious. This took me a while to understand, but hopefully most of you do.

I wanted to know if our reasons matched up or differed.

Thanks!

I'm admittedly still working on that! I mostly just try not to hyperventilate over being a temporarily sentient mobile piece of stardust, stuck on some little backwater planet, in a totally not special solar system, floating about an unremarkable Galaxy in a universe that doesn't revolve around me.

(August 5, 2015 at 11:02 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:

(August 5, 2015 at 10:44 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: Now you have me intrigued.  Is there any name or description for where you stand regarding matters religious?

"Not an atheist" means "a theist."  Double negation does that.  That does not mean that Aoi Magi will accept what follows logically, but it is what it means to be "not an atheist."

Not at all. He could well be an "Idon'tknowist".

You don't like it when theists tell you what your atheism involves. You should avoid the hypocrisy of dictating to another member their beliefs, and at the very least give them the chance to, you know, explain for themselves.

Seriously, don't be so patronizing. It's not only insulting to the subject, it shows you in your worst light to the audience.

I'll admit it: death does scare me. The idea of no longer having awareness or memories of anything is frightening to me. I like being alive. And while it's true that the bulk of existence happened without me, that's not really a comfort. I didn't have myself to lose. I wasn't moving from a state of awareness to nothing.

So, yeah, it's scary. I can understand why theists cling to their beliefs in the face of logic.