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2026-04-12 06:24 UTC
Replies (29)
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@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-12 06:49
I can handle being dead, and I won’t even complain about it, but dying sounds like it sucks.
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@Zwiebel@feddit.org 2026-04-12 07:16
You didn’t experience either tho
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@Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-04-12 07:22
Instant surprise switch to nonexistence after my kids and grown up and have their own lifes would be totally fine. Preferrably in synchronization with the life partner. It’s not the being dead that’s the problem, it’s all the nasty stuff connected with the transition process.
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@lordziv@lemmy.nz 2026-04-12 21:32
Reminds me of one of my favourite Alan Watts quotes: > "When you die, you're not going to have to put up with everlasting non-existance, because that's not an experience. A lot of people are afraid that when they die, they're going to be locked up in a dark room forever, - Try and imagine what it would be like to go to sleep and never wake up. And if you think long enough about that...it will pose the next question. What was it like to wake up after never having gone to sleep? That was when you were born...you see...you...you can't have an experience of nothing so after you're dead the only thing that can happen is the same experience or the same sort of experience as when you were born."
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@pjwestin@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 19:08
I don't remember what being 6 months old was like either, but I'm told I screamed and shit myself the entire time, so maybe the experience actually wasn't great.
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@Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 2026-04-13 23:01
We have already experienced the endless void, why do you think we are so afraid of it...
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@rumba@lemmy.zip 2026-04-12 18:18
We are hard-wired to fear death so we don't usher it on. By the time we are old enough to die of natural causes, we are in enough pain and so starved for serotonin that we're more or less ok with it.
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@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2026-04-12 21:18
I experienced getting kicked in the nuts as a kid, that did not make me less afraid of getting kicked in the nuts
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@Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 18:00
Because existence outside the void is glorious and beautiful and painful and strange; the Void is just empty nothingness, forever, and should not be cherished.
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@sunbytes@lemmy.world 2026-04-14 14:01
There's still books I need to read
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@58008@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 15:40
I only care about other people dying. Not afraid of my own death at all, except in how I know it will affect others. If I knew no one would care or remember that I existed, I'd skip to my death like I'm off to see the Wizard. Being *not alive* is not even another state of being. There is nothing to do the "being" on either side of alivetude. It's not like, once dead, you're now in Phase 3 of beingosity (the first two phases being *pre-alive* and *alive*). Your energy and nutrients will serve other purposes, but we're talking about consciousness here, and that is as fragile and malleable as a flaccid penis, and as temporary and fleeting as a decent erection. A way I like to conceptualise it is with this thought experiment: Everyone on Earth has the power of telepathy, except you. You try to explain what not being able to read or transmit thoughts is like, and the other people who do have telepathy are struggling to grasp it. "Is it like a dial tone? Or is it maybe the ambient silence when you're in a room with nothing making noise, like the sound of your own bodily vibrations?" and you have to be like "no, it's none of those things, because those things are all still imagining the presence of a sensory platform that just doesn't exist in me. It's not a *faulty* telepathy, it's complete absence of it that doesn't hint at its own absence, there is no telepathy hole in my brain that I can finger, it's all solid and complete as far as my sense of self is concerned". Death is nothing to be afraid of. Your fears and anxieties around it are all supposing the ability to retain hindsight once the process is completed, like you'll watch the party continue without you and that you'll miss out on things that would make you happy. You're simply projecting yourself forward in time, perhaps imagining yourself in some weird paralysed state, uninvolved in life, but still *there*. You'll have no framework within which to *experience* experience. So fuckin' relax and enjoy yourself and try to make everyone else's ride as nice as you can. That's literally all there is to it. Oh, and MILF porn.
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@stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2026-04-13 07:45
I like the light.
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@Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-14 12:54
When I "experienced" it the first time there was no experience, nothing to lose (that I can remember). This time you lose everything and everyone you know. Everything.
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@Malyca@lemmy.zip 2026-04-14 01:11
If it where rational I wouldn't be in this mess
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@hedge_lord@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 15:56
The thing that currently calls itself me wants to see the third Spiderverse movie before it ceases to exist. If the future "me" doesn't want to see the third Spiderverse movie then "I" have died and it's basically the same thing. Don't leave me on a cliffhanger bro.
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@Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2026-04-12 18:17
It might have been void before, or it may be our actual life that we're currently unaware of, because this is a learning experience where less limited creatures constrain themselves to the "human experience" in order to learn from it. There's no real reason to believe that's the case, but it's just as probable as nothingness. If life is full of surprises, maybe death is too.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-04-13 08:13
is it dead or alive?
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@m3t00@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 18:03
void is not empty but boring. won't know you are there 🐝
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@stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 17:40
I can't go back to the ocelots, I owe them transient ether shards, and I'll never be able to make them back on my own, I'll just hang out in this life until the heat cools down. and by that I mean The heat death of the universe, I have no plans for after that.
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@chunes@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 17:08
After you die, someone else will be born. It's literally reincarnation without some kind of persistent self or magical scorecard.
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@DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 2026-04-12 16:21
This is such a braindead take.
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@anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 11:27
Before your first taste of ice cream you had none. Now that ice cream is permabanned and you’ll never have it again why you so upset?
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@Deceptichum@quokk.au 2026-04-12 09:57
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@prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-12 15:00
>You've already experienced Have I though? I don't think my ability to "experience" existed prior to my birth.
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@s@piefed.world 2026-04-12 08:38
When powered on, a TV or computer monitor can output black. When powered off, the lack of signal is noticeably different than the black output. You do not experience a lack of signal.
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@yakko@feddit.uk 2026-04-12 07:17
I'm afraid of dying while people are still using common phrases incorrectly.
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@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2026-04-12 11:36
People post this expecting it will make death more comfortable, but all it does is make contemplating the past less so.
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@osanna@lemmy.vg 2026-04-12 08:33
The bug fact’s what?? Don’t leave us hanging!
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@BanaramaClamcrotch@lemmy.zip 2026-04-12 10:30
Hm. Hot take!