Fellow atheists, do you find the idea of death a little weird?

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EscapeBlade

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Yeah it is. Doesn't make me want to pop a religion pill to ease it, but yeah. I've on and off thought that maybe we go to the pagan sort of afterlife, or go on to another universe. I don't know, I may never know (kinda hard to know when you don't exist).

Of course, if we live another life (such as in the event of reincarnation), we would never know we had this life. Really, we as people would be gone, lost, as we are ultimately products of our life. So whatever happens, we would no longer exist even by old pagan standards.

Well, just live a long and productive life 'til then. In my last moments, I intend to dream what my ripple in the pond has done. :)
 
My brain just cannot grasp the idea of not existing...
Yes, I know, just think about before you were born, but I still find the notion unsettling.
 
At first, I suppose it did. But that was mostly because I had grown up religious and had heaven/hell on the brain...

I've come to terms with the idea, and it doesn't bother me. In fact, I'd rather that then living for eternity in some heaven or hell.
 
I know I'll die someday... but I hope it is not too soon because my 11 yr old son needs me. I'm all he has.

I've been keeping a journal off and on since I was a 12 yr old Mormon girl and have so many journals filled now... I think I have 9 or 10 so far. I guess I just like writing down my experiences and insights I've gained along the way. Maybe I think too much, but that's just how I am I guess.

These days, it comforts me to write in my journal knowing that someday my son will be able to read what I wrote and maybe others too, thereby they might get to know me better when I'm gone, (ironically) because that's when people start looking through a persons things.

I have willed everything I have to my son.

I don't know exactly what it will be like in the afterlife or "non existance" whatever the case is (I'm not atheist), but I think it's rather interesting to think about and also ponder what it will be like on earth long after I'm gone.
 
When I think too hard about it, my mind can't grasp the idea of it. Therefore I try not to think too hard about it or else my brain will eventually explode.
But I think of it this way: When I'm dead I won't know. So what's there to be afraid of?
Does that make sense? That's the way I have to think of it when I start thinking too much.
 
well you answered your own question just think about before you were born you didn't exist then and you won't exist when you die it's hard to grasp the fact but it's true
 
I do, indeed. 3 months ago all was kosher and lovely. I had a small skin cancer. It was just cut out for the fourth time today.

I have always found the idea of death a little weird and ungraspable - It's becoming a little easier to contemplate.

Bummer.
 
I kinda do, but more than that, I worry that I'll die when my kids still need me. I'm also afraid of dying in some messed up, painful way. I've had some really creepy nightmares about that.
 
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