You feel like wanting eternity now, but that may not be the case once you actually have it. It is because of your limited temporal existence that everything that holds value to you holds any value. Once you have eternal life, those things would no longer hold any value.
No, I'm not saying that if someone grants you eternal life right now, you'd stop enjoying life right away. I'm saying that the longer you live, the more you'll start getting bored of things you love now. Maybe in a thousand years, you really would be bored of life itself. This article here gives plenty of reasons why you should not wish for immortality.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5-r...death.html
Another reason you are afraid of dying is because you cannot conceive your non-existence. You use phrases like "I'd enter the void" or "I'd be in nothingness", because you imagine how your ego would cease to exist. You get what the idea means theoretically, but you haven't integrated it with your concept of existence. Once you do that, you won't stop being terrified of death, but you will realize that as long as it doesn't come before its time, you can expect a future where you would no longer be terrified of it.
The best thing to wish for here, in my opinion, is not immortality, but wishful-death. That means that you get to live as long as you want and when you want to die, you die.
No, I'm not saying that if someone grants you eternal life right now, you'd stop enjoying life right away. I'm saying that the longer you live, the more you'll start getting bored of things you love now. Maybe in a thousand years, you really would be bored of life itself. This article here gives plenty of reasons why you should not wish for immortality.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5-r...death.html
Another reason you are afraid of dying is because you cannot conceive your non-existence. You use phrases like "I'd enter the void" or "I'd be in nothingness", because you imagine how your ego would cease to exist. You get what the idea means theoretically, but you haven't integrated it with your concept of existence. Once you do that, you won't stop being terrified of death, but you will realize that as long as it doesn't come before its time, you can expect a future where you would no longer be terrified of it.
The best thing to wish for here, in my opinion, is not immortality, but wishful-death. That means that you get to live as long as you want and when you want to die, you die.
