(July 5, 2017 at 9:35 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Why should mortality bother me so much? It seems like most of you guys here have adjusted fine to the idea. Why can't I? I think my existential crisis is this: The end of my conscious experience is completely indistinguishable from never having had that experience at all. The very moment "I" cease to exist, it will literally be as though "I" never existed in the first place. From "my" POV it will be like time snapping backwards. It's the ultimate dissolution. So, why be bothered at all?
I know, I know...once I'm dead I won't know or care about any of this so it's silly to perseverate on it now, but sometimes I feel like I've been stuck in one of the five stages of grief for years, and I can't get past it.
Hey LfC -
Bold is mine-
Everything ok?
That's not even true in my opinion. You have kids and "you" will live on through them. Or anything else you create that lasts in a meaningful way.
Hell, when I play a Bach tune, there he is - on my violin, on youtube and many other places. He bit the dust almost 300 years ago but he lives on through what he created.
Sure, I believe that when I die I won't live on after death. But I don't think about that too much in my daily life. Only when I'm feeling down, which is why I asked if you're ok.
-Teresa
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