Does eternal oblivion scare you?

[Anon1337]

Does eternal oblivion scare you? At this point in my life not existing would be better than existing.

 

[Maravillosa]

Eternal oblivion kind of scares me, but Hell scares me more.

 

[Mr2005]

Only when you put it like that

 

[Duqu]

Yes and same as @Maravillosa w/r/t the idea of hell...I don't *really* believe in it (I consider myself agnostic) but I grew up in a strict christian household and there's still this lingering fear of "all suicides go to hell" and the idea of eternal damnation doesn't sound so great either.

But the idea of simply "not existing" freaks me out too. But not as much as getting old THEN *not existing*

 

[Rachel]

Yes...but the percise moment of going from being alive to being dead is what scares me most.

 

[Anon1337]

I want to think of it as a permanent dreamless sleep.

 

[crova]

I fear of being stuck in the process of dying - somewhere between two states - not fully dead yet, but not alive anymore.

 

[GiveMeNovacaine]

It scares the shit out of me and it's definitely the main reason why I haven't caught the bus yet. Like Rachel said, the transition between life and death is the scariest part.

 

[Jon]

We've already experienced "eternal oblivion" before being born, except it wasn't exactly "eternal" because we were born, and I don't think any of us, nor in fact the whole human race, complained half as much then as we do now we're alive.

Whether death is eternal or not is something I'm not convinced about, because if we were born at least once then being born again cannot be completely ruled out. What is certain is that death brings an end to our life on earth, as is obvious when seeing the lifeless corpse of a once living breathing human being. There's a lot we don't know about what exactly happens after death, but oblivion, whether it be eternal or not, is definitely nothing to fear.

If Homer was right, and we're left plunged into darkness and hanging on for dear life on the slippery walls of the underworld, then sooner or later we will all have to go through that anyway, so the timing makes no difference whatsoever. But I for one would prefer eternal oblivion, though none of us really have a say in the matter, just like we didn't before we were brought, or rather pushed, into this world.

 

[GeorgeEastman]

It's the only thought that brings me any peace.

 

[Trashcan]

No. Reincarnation or an afterlife scares me.

 

[Metavoid]

Yeah, what if the moment you die, you are reborn again? What if death isn't eternal at all? What if we died a million times and every time we just got pushed out of a vagina into a new identity? That's what scares me. What if suicide is a test. If you commit suicide again, you are doomed to another life of misery until you break the cycle and overcome suicide and die naturally and get reborn into a happy life for eternity.

I'm tired.

 

[Made4TV]

I'm not worried about it. But I don't believe in any kind of afterlife.

 

[Metavoid]

It was more tongue in cheek poke at what my Christian mother would say, lol.

 

[littlelungs]

Like others have said, it's the transition of actually getting there that makes me feel weird. I'm personally not religious or spiritual or anything like that, so I sometimes have a difficult time wrapping my head around that once I die, it's just lights out forever. Once I'm there, though, I obviously won't have a clue and there will be nothing to grieve or "wrap my head around" because I won't exist anymore.

I go back and forth on being nervous about it and not being nervous about it. I try to remind myself that being afraid of eternal oblivion is a "living me problem", not a "dead me problem"... if that makes ANY lick of sense whatsoever.

I have moments where I wish that I could see how others react to my death, but then I remember that that would require me to still exist to at least some degree, so then I just think, "Nah, fuck that."

 

[Nem]

If there's a God, he or she knows the struggles we are going through and what/who caused them.

We're all going to die eventually and knowing how things are now, waiting to die of natural causes could be an absolute nightmare from hell. I don't think God would send someone to hell for taking their own lives because they are just not capable of carrying on in this world.
The eternal oblivion thing should not be a large concern, there is a high possibility that we just stop existing and if not, the people that caused us to get in this predicament are in for more of a surprise than we are when we cease to exist.
Peace

 

[worldexploder]

It doesn't scare me at all. Nothing is nothing to be afraid of.

 

[none666]

It terrifies me honestly, I don't know if complete non-existence is something I could ever be ok with. I'd much prefer a peaceful and happy afterlife where everything is ok, and maybe after I've had my fill of that I could come to peace with it.

 

[worldexploder]

It terrifies me honestly, I don't know if complete non-existence is something I could ever be ok with. I'd much prefer a peaceful and happy afterlife where everything is ok, and maybe after I've had my fill of that I could come to peace with it.

Ask yourself - how did you feel before you were born and why do you think nonexistence is terrifying. Only the sentient can feel emotions afterall.

 

[Bringmepeace]

It used to savage me a lot, been reading "journey of souls" by dr Michael Newton lately, I didn't even believe in any of that either before but it's really helped, maybe it can help here? It's a very interesting read nonetheless

 

[starcrossedfate]

Undoubtedly, even with the "reassurance" that I did not fathom my existence before birth and therefore, it implies death as not being any different; eternal oblivion is a terrifying thought/concept because the capacity of human consciousness and imagination is virtually limitless.

 

[08nomore]

Did you fear anything before you were born ?

 

[No Future]

Calling it 'eternal oblivion' puts a lot of pretense, weight and drama onto something that has none of these connotations whatsoever. It's the literal definition of making a big deal out of nothing.

It is what it is; or isn't. There isn't any emotion or thought involved in a state of simply not being. People tend to inject too many human tendencies and spiritual notions onto death. It's not at all complicated.

 

[Daystavro]

it does.
But not as much as to keep living my life with all the suffering, stress and bad emotions.

 

[Help_Me]

Uneasy question. I guess this will be the same experience as the one we had before our birth. There will be no feelings and no self-conscience itself, so we won't be able to actually feel, our minds will no longer exist. I think there is nothing to fear in eternal oblivion.

 

[MAIO]

Does eternal oblivion scare you? At this point in my life not existing would be better than existing.

No. For starters "eternal oblivion" is inevitable. You can either die now when you want to or die when you don't want to, maybe of a slow terrible condition. I personally think it's pretty obvious our view cousiousness is fundamentally incorrect or we are star dust that think the universe revolves around us and even if it wasn't was does death really mean? For instance almost evrey molecule of your brain/body is replaced many times throughout life span. If something is replaced that means the old part of you is dead. So really you have already died into eternal oblivion many times without even realizing it.!

 

[Fcancer]

I am not religious, but if there is a hell. Things you can do
- Judo chop Ilse Koch for being an overseer of the concentration camps.
- Get Chris Benoit to teach you the Crippler Crossface.
- Get Vinny Van Gogh to paint a nice portrait of you.
- Listen to Robin Williams tell you jokes all day.
- Make a masterpiece album with Chester, Cobain, and Cornell.
- Start dating Marilyn Munroe.

The possibilities are endless...

 

[none666]

Ask yourself - how did you feel before you were born and why do you think nonexistence is terrifying. Only the sentient can feel emotions afterall.

True, but the concept of it really scares me, and it kinda makes me question the meaning of life more than I do already, cause if all there is is oblivion for everyone, and when we die that's it, what's the point of being nice and sacrificing for others? When they're dead it won't matter, they won't have the ability to care. On the other hand, if what you do in this life has some sort of repurcussions after death then there's more reason to do good. Either way it feels bad to be bad so I'll try to be good, but in terms of if anything I do really matters oblivion really crushes that hope

 

[led770]

On a cerebral level the thought of eternal oblivion is a relief. It stimulates my thought though towards an alternative afterlife scenario which more frightening... hell/hades/sheol. It's endlessly agitating that so little is known about the next train stop of life.

 

[Arak]

No, but it bothers me. I'd have existed for only an infinite amount of time in eternity. What's the point ?