Many people are afraid of death, and it's a huge seller, obviously, for religions which have salvation as a perk. But Ace is talking about (I think) the fact that you are really just going back to the state before you were conceived- you simply didn't exist (as an organism). Why is this scary? I am not sure. I know that this is quoted all the time, but Mark Twain sums it up well:
Or more simply put:
That's, to me, the best way to put it.
Quote:Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.-Mark Twain
Or more simply put:
Quote:I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.-Mark Twain
That's, to me, the best way to put it.
