An atheist i was talking to told that he finds being reduced to ashes horrifying

[iwanttodie019]

Then i explaine to him:---
You will not be conscious during the process,so how is it horrifying?
Do you find it horrifying when the chair(or any inanimate matter)in your room burning?

 

[ZwartHartje]

Exactly. Personally I do believe in an afterlife (NOT in the religious way though), but as for those who are convinced that there's no afterlife, I've all too often heard about their fear of the "endless blackness and nothingness" after death. That's pretty inconsistent, because you'd need to continue to exist in order to experience that...
Either there is an afterlife or there's nonexistence, but nonexistence can't be experienced, so it's pointless to be scared of that.

 

[iwanttodie019]

Exactly. Personally I do believe in an afterlife (NOT in the religious way though), but as for those who are convinced that there's no afterlife, I've all too often heard about their fear of the "endless blackness and nothingness" after death. That's pretty inconsistent, because you'd need to continue to exist in order to experience that...
Either there is an afterlife or there's nonexistence, but nonexistence can't be experienced, so it's pointless to be scared of that.

He was telling being reduced to ashes as horrifying.'
If you were conscious during the process then yes it is horrifying.
but since you won't be conscious during the process,it is like finding a chair in your room burning horrifying.Completely irrational

 

[dust-in-the-wind]

Being a rotting corpse in the ground is no pleasant thought either.

 

[iwanttodie019]

Being a rotting corpse in the ground is no pleasant thought either.

You won't be you anymore when that happens
You will have been comletely anhiliated(assuming physicalism is true and death is the end)

Do you feel empathy for an inanimate object burning?or do you feel empathy when you you see a rotting fruit in the ground?
Anything is of moral significance only if it has the capacity to suffer or is conscious

 

[BoredomSeeker]

The rational argument is kind of irrelevant. I'm sure whoever you are speaking of knows that their concern is irrational. Doesn't make it any less of a real fear. Humans aren't purely rational.

 

[iwanttodie019]

The rational argument is kind of irrelevant. I'm sure whoever you are speaking of knows that their concern is irrational. Doesn't make it any less of a real fear. Humans aren't purely rational.

Yesthat's why i say fear of death is very irrational