by Lissar » November 16th, 2006, 12:55 am
I'm not afraid of death because I won't be the first or last person to die. Besides, why should I be afraid of it? I have too many other things to think about right now.
As for the afterlife, as a Jew and a scientist, I don't really think about it much. I mean, I suppose it would be nice, but very crowded, and I'd probably get really bored.
The problem with death is that we fundamentally cannot wrap our brains around the feeling of not existing. No matter what we do, we always exist. But I guess the good news is that we don't have to freak out about how we're going to deal with not existing because, well, we won't exist to freak out about it.
I don't particularly want to die, but when it happens, it happens. And I'll just live the best I can.