I find I fear actual death itself less since becoming an atheist. I'm sure it'll be nothing (certainly not the Heaven or Hell situation of Abrahamic religions anyway) so I don't see reason to be scared of it. I won't know.
What scares me more is if it'll be long drawn out or painful. I have to admit, I would be scared if I was in a situation where I knew it was coming, like a terminal illness, and probably wouldn't be able to deal with living my last few weeks as a vegetable. I hope to die in my sleep or otherwise unexpectedly.
What scares me more is if it'll be long drawn out or painful. I have to admit, I would be scared if I was in a situation where I knew it was coming, like a terminal illness, and probably wouldn't be able to deal with living my last few weeks as a vegetable. I hope to die in my sleep or otherwise unexpectedly.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie