Poll of the Day > Are you afraid of what happens after death??

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RCtheWSBC
06/22/17 3:16:40 PM
#51:


Funkdamental posted...
Smarkil posted...
I've never understood how atheists could be afraid of being dead


Survival instinct.

I think there is a distinction between an aversion of death and a fear of death. Like, I look both ways before crossing the street because I don't want to die, but I don't keep myself up at night pondering about a state of non-existence.
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thanosibe
06/22/17 3:26:19 PM
#52:


Funkdamental posted...
Smarkil posted...
I've never understood how atheists could be afraid of being dead


Survival instinct. The threat of personal extinction.
Yes. I am more afraid I am right that there is no afterlife and I will cease to exist than I am that there is, even if its a bad afterlife.
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SushiSquid
06/22/17 3:27:47 PM
#53:


thanosibe posted...
Funkdamental posted...
Smarkil posted...
I've never understood how atheists could be afraid of being dead


Survival instinct. The threat of personal extinction.
Yes. I am more afraid I am right that there is no afterlife and I will cease to exist than I am that there is, even if its a bad afterlife.

I feel this way too. This is what I meant when at the end of my post I said I would prefer Hell to oblivion. I'd rather exist in constant pain than not exist.
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Smarkil
06/22/17 4:03:10 PM
#54:


thanosibe posted...
Funkdamental posted...
Smarkil posted...
I've never understood how atheists could be afraid of being dead


Survival instinct. The threat of personal extinction.
Yes. I am more afraid I am right that there is no afterlife and I will cease to exist than I am that there is, even if its a bad afterlife.


But why? When you've ceased to exist you won't care that you don't exist because you...ya know...won't exist.
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OhhhJa
06/22/17 4:19:42 PM
#55:


Smarkil posted...
thanosibe posted...
Funkdamental posted...
Smarkil posted...
I've never understood how atheists could be afraid of being dead


Survival instinct. The threat of personal extinction.
Yes. I am more afraid I am right that there is no afterlife and I will cease to exist than I am that there is, even if its a bad afterlife.


But why? When you've ceased to exist you won't care that you don't exist because you...ya know...won't exist.

I think it's the fear of that last moment knowing that's what is about to happen
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Jiggy101011
06/22/17 4:26:20 PM
#56:


I like to believe when we die we start over but on a completely different planet in a different solar system and while we are fully aware that we have started over we can't communicate with Earth.

If I'm wrong oh well I'll be dead and won't care.
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Funkdamental
06/22/17 4:36:57 PM
#57:


Smarkil posted...
thanosibe posted...
Funkdamental posted...
Smarkil posted...
I've never understood how atheists could be afraid of being dead


Survival instinct. The threat of personal extinction.
Yes. I am more afraid I am right that there is no afterlife and I will cease to exist than I am that there is, even if its a bad afterlife.


But why? When you've ceased to exist you won't care that you don't exist because you...ya know...won't exist.


Well, when I no longer exist, I'll stop worrying about it. Until then, the prospect of nonexistence is gonna continue to disturb me.
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mastermix3000
06/22/17 4:42:26 PM
#58:


Jiggy101011 posted...
I like to believe when we die we start over but on a completely different planet in a different solar system and while we are fully aware that we have started over we can't communicate with Earth.

If I'm wrong oh well I'll be dead and won't care.


idk the universe is infinite so I doubt we all die and that;s the end (aka I wouldn't be surprised if your guess is right). It would sorta explain deja vu
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Judgmenl
06/22/17 4:46:55 PM
#59:


No not at the slightest. I'd honestly prefer death over life. Life's overrated boring shit.
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Funkdamental
06/22/17 4:59:29 PM
#60:


Consciousness is a product of electrochemical activity in the brain; it's a fragile and ephemeral thing. We'll have no more awareness of existence after our death than we had before our birth. We'll be just recycled chemicals. That's what I believe.
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wwinterj25
06/22/17 7:39:50 PM
#61:


Smarkil posted...
I've never understood how atheists could be afraid of being dead unless they really believed in some form of afterlife.


For me it's simply because my brain can't comprehend the thought of never existing. Sure I never existed before I were born but since I were born I've developed the thought of fear. Maybe I'll never know that the day I die will be my last but closing my eyes and never waking up again is indeed a scary thought to me.

Being a atheist just means you don't believe in the existence of any gods it doesn't necessarily mean you believe in no afterlife. Although I personally don't believe in a afterlife I actually want a afterlife to be real because at least then I can carry on "living". That would be nothing more than burring my head in the sand from reality though if I believed that.

RCtheWSBC posted...
but I don't keep myself up at night pondering about a state of non-existence.


I wonder if those who don't think about it have any form of anxiety or depression. I mean I never used to give it much though but because my anxiety makes me believe I'm going to die from the many aches and pains I get(mostly tense mussels in my head and chest) it must have triggered me to think about these thoughts much deeper. Although it's not death anxiety I have it's on the verge of it. That's the only explanation I have to these thoughts as I'm only 30 and don't plan on being dead anytime soon.
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SushiSquid
06/22/17 8:27:22 PM
#62:


Honestly I think more than anything I just don't want to die in my sleep. My best friend died in his sleep four years ago at the age of 22. You never get the chance to really say goodbye and have that closure. I think that really messed me up and I'm still struggling with my relationship with death since then. I certainly wasn't afraid of death until more recently in my life.

Plus now I have stuff to live for. I've so long been lacking in purpose, but now I'm starting to finally build a sense of caring about myself and my life. I'm finally planning to live instead of planning to die. It's different, but it's also scary. This world matters to me now. I don't want to leave it.
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thanosibe
06/22/17 9:24:45 PM
#63:


Funkdamental posted...
Smarkil posted...
thanosibe posted...
Funkdamental posted...
Smarkil posted...
I've never understood how atheists could be afraid of being dead


Survival instinct. The threat of personal extinction.
Yes. I am more afraid I am right that there is no afterlife and I will cease to exist than I am that there is, even if its a bad afterlife.


But why? When you've ceased to exist you won't care that you don't exist because you...ya know...won't exist.


Well, when I no longer exist, I'll stop worrying about it. Until then, the prospect of nonexistence is gonna continue to disturb me.
This is my answer as well.
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Smarkil
06/23/17 11:43:38 AM
#64:


wwinterj25 posted...
Being a atheist just means you don't believe in the existence of any gods it doesn't necessarily mean you believe in no afterlife. Although I personally don't believe in a afterlife I actually want a afterlife to be real because at least then I can carry on "living". That would be nothing more than burring my head in the sand from reality though if I believed that.


I don't think you can consider yourself a true atheist and believe in an afterlife. They seem to be necessarily contradictory.

In order to believe in a form of afterlife you have to believe there is something separate from the body that makes us what we are - commonly attributed as a soul. Atheists however should not believe there is a soul that is 'released' upon death. It wouldn't make sense to believe otherwise. There would have to be some scientific logic behind it like copying your brain or some shit. But at that point, could you even consider it an 'afterlife'?

That's why I'm always a little amused when someone claims to be an atheist but also believe in ghosts. The logic of it just doesn't make sense.
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wwinterj25
06/23/17 1:29:16 PM
#65:


Again Atheists don't necessarily believe in the science behind things. All being a atheist is is not believing in god or gods. The rest is up to the individual.
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mastermix3000
06/23/17 1:30:59 PM
#66:


Smarkil posted...
That's why I'm always a little amused when someone claims to be an atheist but also believe in ghosts. The logic of it just doesn't make sense.


Probably agnostic and not atheist. That's an umbrella most people are under but remains untouched
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Smarkil
06/23/17 4:12:56 PM
#67:


wwinterj25 posted...
Again Atheists don't necessarily believe in the science behind things. All being a atheist is is not believing in god or gods. The rest is up to the individual.


The afterlife is a product of belief in some form of divine entity. Unless you necessarily believe there is a scientific explanation for an afterlife, then you necessarily have to believe in some part of a product of the divine.

You can't say, "Oh, I don't believe in God but I do believe that some guy rose from the dead after three days and ascended into the sky". One is a part of the whole.
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wwinterj25
06/23/17 9:36:49 PM
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I mean people can believe whatever they want. Some may believe in a heaven without actually believing in god for example. It doesn't need to make sense as none of it actually makes sense. Death being like a eternal, dreamless sleep is the only logical thing to believe in my book.
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TheGreatNoodles
06/23/17 9:40:15 PM
#69:


I'm scared of there being nothing... I know if true that means I won't have any feeling... But that's scary... What happens to my mind?

It's probably the only thing that merely thinking about makes me scared of... If I don't exist anymore I won't miss living or feel dead... But... I don't know how to even write this. :/
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TheCyborgNinja
06/23/17 9:43:51 PM
#70:


I'm an atheist, so not really. I just don't want to die.
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wwinterj25
06/23/17 9:46:51 PM
#71:


It's interesting to think we have all been dead before(before we were born) but what exactly made us see life through these eyes. Could that actually happen again? Have we been born before and don't remember? Would we even want to be born again and not remember? So many questions really.

I know the scientific reasons as to why we exist and our brain will rot away like the rest of us once we are dead(unless cremated). Proof of this is skeletons of course. However what happens to our contentiousness if anything remains to be seen. Although consciousness is a thing the brain creates so without the brain I guess consciousness doesn't exist. That's what freaks me out the most.
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Terumin
06/23/17 9:48:44 PM
#72:


Yeah, a bit. But it was worse when I was younger.

Now I get just a bit sad when I think all good things will end for me someday. But more than anything... I´m sorta afraid of being "nothing", It´s a feeling a human being can´t describe. Sometimes I think that would be cool if we could be reborn as another person.
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Parvenu
06/23/17 10:02:07 PM
#73:


The only thing I'm worried about is my family. My kids are young to lose their father. I won't have shit to worry about.
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IAmNowGone
06/23/17 10:08:27 PM
#74:


RCtheWSBC posted...
wwinterj25 posted...
I'd love to know peoples thoughts on why they are not afraid at all. I assume it's due to religion but I could be wrong.

I'm non-religious, and I explained my thoughts in my post.

I don't believe in an afterlife or an oblivion. When I die, there will be nothing. There will literally be nothing to fear.


Basically this. The eternal sleep.
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Smarkil
06/24/17 1:31:39 AM
#75:


wwinterj25 posted...
I mean people can believe whatever they want. Some may believe in a heaven without actually believing in god for example. It doesn't need to make sense as none of it actually makes sense. Death being like a eternal, dreamless sleep is the only logical thing to believe in my book.


Then you're not an atheist. What you believe is supernatural. You may not believe in a conventional version, but you believe in something. At best you're an atheist leaning agnostic.
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wwinterj25
06/24/17 1:43:43 AM
#76:


Smarkil posted...
Then you're not an atheist. What you believe is supernatural. You may not believe in a conventional version, but you believe in something. At best you're an atheist leaning agnostic.


Oh I believe in no afterlife so I'm a Atheist either way. I'm just simply pointing out that atheism is just not believing in gods so if other atheists believe in ghosts, the afterlife or even heaven that doesn't change anything. People can refer to themselves as whatever they want to when it comes to beliefs as there is no right and wrong in my view.
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Dash064
06/24/17 2:28:27 AM
#77:


I too have struggled with this and I still am. My biggest fear is non-existence because I absolutely love life. There are so many perfect things in this world despite all the shit we deal with. Is it so wrong to fear the loss of something so great? So many people right now are choosing to live rather than dying and that must mean overall, they find life worth it and doesn't that mean life is overall good? To think all the pain, happiness, and growing we went through was all in vain. Dust in the wind? I refuse to believe that. Humans can't even begin to comprehend everything in this world so we may not have to worry about it because it doesn't matter in the end. But at least there's hope everything will be made right in the end. Life has proven that it will all be okay.
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Desulated
06/24/17 2:44:45 AM
#78:


No because death comes to everybody, and I certainly hope I won't be reborn and have to put up with the 12 years of misery that is school all over again.
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