RE: How Do You Get Over Death?
August 23, 2015 at 2:17 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2015 at 2:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Having never been raised with the notion that death can be "gotten over", more as a brute fact of life, specifically juxtaposed with the judeo-christian notion of an eternal afterlife, or the eastern idea of subsequent lives, the OP question seems nonsensical. Death can't be "gotten over". There is no alternative. "Getting Over" on death from a psychological perspective seems similarly futile and counterproductive. That I will one day die is the driving force behind what I do in life. I have "x" amount of time to do "y", and whatever is left unaccomplished in life remains forever unaccomplished by me. I leave that to those I leave behind me, though that brings little satisfaction. I've never, personally, seen someone do more or less based upon the notion. It's difficult to for me to tell who believes in another life based upon their actions in this one. Christians duck when shots are fired - so does everyone else. I've never known an atheist who rushes towards death either. I think the question originates in the fiction, and so there is no sensible answer.
Either you are satisfied with what you have done -in this life- or you're not. You can change that, you can decide or conclude that it cannot be changed. Largely, though, seems like something that's out of our hands. If we really spent as much time in our lives fretting over death as we seem to in conversation we'd never step foot in our showers or cars (easily the most dangerous places a human being can find themselves). I don't think that we do. I think that we imagine the problem, then imagine the solutions, and all of that imagining accounts for nothing in our lives. Obviously anecdotal, but there it is, I don;t think that anyone "get's over" death, nor do I think that we expend much effort in service of that goal whether we believe it;s possible or not.
Either you are satisfied with what you have done -in this life- or you're not. You can change that, you can decide or conclude that it cannot be changed. Largely, though, seems like something that's out of our hands. If we really spent as much time in our lives fretting over death as we seem to in conversation we'd never step foot in our showers or cars (easily the most dangerous places a human being can find themselves). I don't think that we do. I think that we imagine the problem, then imagine the solutions, and all of that imagining accounts for nothing in our lives. Obviously anecdotal, but there it is, I don;t think that anyone "get's over" death, nor do I think that we expend much effort in service of that goal whether we believe it;s possible or not.
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