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Personally, I do not fear death. I don't fear death because I'm utterly curious. All of your thoughts are functions of a brain, a brain that will stop functioning. So what will you experience? Religious people will say there's an afterlife. A non-religious person might say you experience a void. You see, hear, feel, smell nothing. But if experiences are a function of the brain, and the brain is dead, you can't even experience a void. It's not possible to imagine a true nothingness. So it brings me back to the original question, what do you experience after death? It's an impossible question to answer without experiencing it. Sure, people have had near-death experiences and talked about them, but I question how many of those experiences are merely hallucinations created by a mind panicking about its demise. To die is to finally get the answer to the question. I do not fear dying because I will finally have an answer to the unanswerable. That said, my bigger fear is aging and becoming decrepit. I don't want to survive, I want to live. If I ever get to a point where I'm merely surviving, unable to walk without assistance, unable to wipe my own ass, then I think it'll be time to say I've had a good run and end it. |