Conscious thought, experience, and the inevitable.

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I used to fear death but I don't as much anymore.

It is a useful survival instinct for us organisms to have. It is the primary binding principle behind all evolution. Survival. It is written into our DNA.

Humans are rational and understand that death is inevitable and inescapable and final. Resist, ignore, or try to escape it as we may it finds all of us just the same. It reduces the most powerful and most powerless among us to the same end.

Heidegger calls life Being unto Nothingness. Kierkegaard spoke of Sickness unto Death. They were speaking of the feeling of finiteness. The fact that each human has an end that is always growing nearer. That all feelings, thoughts, works, and things face the certitude of annihilation.

Religion is consoling in this respect. It provides hope of escaping from annihilation and nothingness. To placate oneself with falsehoods is tantamount to dishonesty, weakness and bad faith.

Fear clouds our ability to think rationally. I know that I am a Being unto Nothingness. That I face that eventual fate and that there is nothing I can do about it. It is final and binding and inevitable. So all I can work to do is face that thought with serenity and acceptance. Life is meaningless and finite but that does not mean that all things mean nothing. They matter while we are alive. One can live in fear or one can work to overcome that fear. I choose to not be afraid.