Question about permanent death

[EgoDeath]

Another thought... It may sound like common sense to some... but I almost see humans as simply a very advanced "growth" on the surface of the Earth. We are simply life that has been allowed to evolve over millennia into conscious beings. We are just "there," no different from plants, or fungus or bacteria or rocks or monkeys or deer or anything else. We are seeing and observing the world from our perspective so it is challenging to think anything other than that we are special and are "meant to be here" but we truly are not. We are simply bacteria that has, arguably, been allowed to evolve for WAY too long. We are like an infection on the Earth in that we destroy everything around us. We're just a growth, nothing more. A complex one at that, but still just a growth.

Such depressing words aren't for all. There are a lot of people who after thinking about what you described, just commit suicide to skip short sad life. And religion steps in and prevents a lot of such disasters, even if it brainwashes.

Well, not really. There's no need for it to be depressing. We can understand, logically, that life really has no objective meaning or purpose while still feeling fulfilled in our personal lives. The fact that, on the macro scale, I really don't matter, doesn't make my life any less enjoyable, my friends any less funny or my niece any less beautiful. It doesn't make my cat any less adorable or food taste worse.

I think it's important for people to compartmentalize certain beliefs, as we often do with so many ideas anyway. Why should this one be any different? Yea, life doesn't really mean much in the vastness that is our universe but we don't live on that macro scale, we live on the day-to-day, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute scale.

There's really no need to take this sort of approach that being realistic about our existence is somehow depressing.