How Do You Get Over Death?

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The thought has never bothered me as far as I can remember.

I think this is a problem that is created by people being programmed with the idea that life doesn't actually end. Then, if/when they come to realise this is bollocks, they have to readjust.

I guess it's a case of "You can't miss something you never had".

I've heard also that afterlife beliefs can stifle the grieving process when someone close to you dies. You're stuck with them still kind of being alive in your head, and so can't properly process it and move on.

I think the difficulty in thinking about death is how hard it is to remove yourself from the frame of reference. It's sort of like, "It will be all black! No wait, I won't be able to see it. I won't be able to do anything! No wait, I won't be there to do anything anyway. I'll be dead forever! Yes, but I won't notice..."

My advice, for those coming out of religion/afterlife beliefs is to look at it positively. You've realized you were being conned, and have time to do something about it. Now you know you need to make the most of this one and only life, instead of coasting through it assuming the real life is yet to come.