(February 28, 2013 at 6:37 pm)ThomM Wrote: Sorry - but an atheist has NO reason to fear death at all.The existentialists would say that life is just a brief spark of light surrounded on both side by infinite darkness. All we are is dust in the wind...and every cowboy sings a sad sad song.
Returning to nothingness might not be so bad, but a life without ultimate purpose seems worse to me. But that's just me.