Just to be mindlessly charitable in the event you aren't a Poe/Troll, your fear isn't hell; it's death. Now ask yourself how filled with fear and anguish you are at the thought of your non-existence prior to your birth. Seems silly, right? In the absence of any chemical/electrical activity associated with life, why would death be different than your non-existence before conception/birth?
I had surgery when I was 18. At no time while I was under did anyone declare me "dead." I was alive and well. My brain and other vital organs continued to function. Yet I had no sense of myself or time or anything while I was out. It was a nothingness that I wasn't even aware of. One moment I'm being an anesthetized, the next (as I experienced it) I'm coming to in a recovery room. No fear. No experience.
The uncertainty people have regarding death and the dread we feel contemplating it is what gives rise to these afterlife fairy tales we use to scare each other and that some use to keep us in line. It's all bullshit. Get over it. You can choose not to live in fear and grovel like a slave to an imaginary judge.
I had surgery when I was 18. At no time while I was under did anyone declare me "dead." I was alive and well. My brain and other vital organs continued to function. Yet I had no sense of myself or time or anything while I was out. It was a nothingness that I wasn't even aware of. One moment I'm being an anesthetized, the next (as I experienced it) I'm coming to in a recovery room. No fear. No experience.
The uncertainty people have regarding death and the dread we feel contemplating it is what gives rise to these afterlife fairy tales we use to scare each other and that some use to keep us in line. It's all bullshit. Get over it. You can choose not to live in fear and grovel like a slave to an imaginary judge.
