@pinner458 said:
Since I was 13 I've had thoughts that really got me upset, I'd wonder what would happen to me if I died, where would I go? As I grew older I began to consider the idea of my death more deeply. So as a result I get these occasional bursts of panic where I think "If I have consciousness or not, the world or universe will go on forever anyway, it will never end, surely after millions of years it will just get tedious eventually, ".
I sometimes get so upset thinking about this that it makes me pace around the room and cry, this is serious to me so please don't make fun.
I realized that this looks like it just boils down to "what happens when we die " but I'd prefer it to be a discussion about accepting death,,
I support these views:
@theht said:
You are composed of matter fundamentally the same as all of the universe. Your mind was borne by your body, and your body was born from this earth, and if you choose may return to it. Eventually all things run their course. The Sun, the planet and its organisms, the billions upon billions of other stars and systems that comprise a galaxy. You will die just as an ancient massive star billions of lightyears away from you will die. The expiration and restructuring of matter is something that happens all over this universe.
Our consciousness affords us more than an existence spent carrying out autonomous functions, waiting for deconstruction. Awareness and capability enables us to learn about this world, about space and time, to philosophize about ethics, develop elaborate stories, cook fancy food, build a spaceship, create music. Death is the last experience that we will all share. The finality of our forms, the luck that we were the ones to grow into them, gives value to all life.
I'll add that the finality of our forms, the luck that we were the ones to grow into them, gives value to all life and is their ultimate reward their accomplishment.
Death is a reality that all life must face. But we with our lives, what are we? Why are we here really?
The Universe, the human body, a clock. What do they have all in common?
They all work by the harmony generated by their parts, with each single planet, star, cell, wheel fulfilling its intended role. What if we are also a part of the Universe moving according to our intented function, like say a red blood cell in our blood stream. What if that function is shown by our dreams and what we aspire to?
Like what Charles Perkhurst said:
"Purpose is what gives life a meaning."
This gives insight to the happiness of fulfilling our dreams and being integrated in society. If you consider the universe a system like society, a planet rotating and doing the translation movement is both fulfilling its function and integrated in the universe.
If we consider ourselves by this perspective it gives a new definition to death. Death may occur when there is no longer a function. After it being fulfilled, or when our dream has being abandoned, but not necessarily as we may find another, if it is our will. Or death may occur simply by overlapping our expiration date. ahah
This is my belief.
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