(August 19, 2013 at 12:52 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: C'mon guys. Death is a frightening idea. Sometimes the idea of non-existence even keeps me up at night when I think too much about it. Accepting the fact that something is inevitable doesn't make it less scary somehow. Nor does it make the idea of an afterlife anymore realistic.
It's a very personal thing, Capn. All we can do is relate our own personal outlook on the subject. How we approach and accept it is obviously very personal.
On January 2nd of this year, I had to be put into an induced coma for nearly a week to save my life, and it was by no means assured that I would awaken. I can't say that I know what dying is like, but I imagine that it could be like slipping into the dreamless sleep of coma. If that is the case, then I know I have nothing to fear. During that period, I had no memory, no consciousness - nothing but the void of nonidentity.
I can live with that. So to speak.
