[grugagag]

I honestly don't want to believe that but, there's nothing else to indicate that there's an afterlife. And if anyone has any proof they're most likely wrong. And honestly, irrationally, I do fool myself into vaguely believing into the possibility to an afterlife or something beyond death, maybe to mitigate the fear of death. I'm still young, in my early 40s and currently am not afraid of death, but a conversation with my mom made me realize it's because it's quite far away and not likely anytime soon - excluding a sudden accidental death or some terminal disease I could be afflicted with at anytime. She was also carefree when she was young but as she's approaching her 70s she's now starting to feel an anxiety about ceasing to exist. It helps to believe in afterlife or even agnostic. Not sure why I got down-voted, but guess people on HN don't want to hear it.

Also LSD or mushroom trips for terminally ill patients are very promising in accepting death. I'll retort to that if it will be possible.

[aschismatic]

I'm turning 30 this year and I still feel anxious about death every once in a while when I think about it. But I think usually my anxiety stems not from death itself, but what it means for the life I am experiencing right now. It means that I'll have regrets because desire is limitless, but I only have so much time to fulfill my desire. It's impossible to fulfill every desire. I also fear the pain of dying.

But I guess that's where various religion and philosophy come in, the ones that eschew desire. Maybe you will still have pain, but if you try to limit desire, you also limit your regret, or other suffering that desire can cause.

Life is difficult, but can also be filled with happiness. When you die you will no longer suffer, but you will also cease to be able to experience happiness. That is why death is such a conundrum. Depending on how you experience life, it can be a source of dread, or something in which to seek solace. Many times it is both.