I think death is beautiful.

[bennyboy]

By the way, the poll options are goofily lacking. There are way more than two views on death.

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Ivy brought up a good point. I think secretly, many of us aren't as scared about the fact that we will stop experiencing the world, as about the fact that the world will keeping going on just fine without us. My worldview has ME as the glue that holds all my experiences of the world together: and without me, the world as I see it will fall apart.

So death won't only unravel me, it will invalidate everything I "know" about the world.

Perhaps in some cases that might be the case. In mine, not so much - I have no illusions about my role in keeping the world from coming unglued. YMMV of course.

Well, there are the philosophical ideas people SAY they have, and the ideas their behaviors reveal to be true. Very few people say they think they are the center of the universe. But then they cross four lanes of fucking traffic to pull into a snack area, causing about 200 cars to slam on their brakes, causing me to nick the bumper of a BMW at about 2 miles/hour, and costing me $5000 because the driver decided to rub his neck dramatically and take a week off of work. In this scenario, the asshole driver, the asshole who didn't leave enough room (i.e. me) between cars, and the asshole BMW insurance faker, clearly all acted as if their time and benefit was more important than everyone else's. But I doubt any one of us three would check "Yes" next to "Think I'm the center of the universe" on a survey.

I've heard a lot of people say they're not afraid of death. I'd like to line them all up in front of a firing squad and see how beautiful they think death is then. I think their actions would show in a pretty obvious way the difference between ideas to talk about on a forum, and their actual world view.