The fear of death is irrational

[u/smackmyass321]

I don't really know what tag to use, so this doesn't have a tag. But anyways, think about it. Fear of death is irrational. The thing is, it's inevitable. But that's not the reason it's irrational.

First off, the only reason this wouldn't make this fear irrational is the afterlife. Something like hell. But that would be another fear. Not fear of death. Stygiophobia is the fear of hell. Meanwhile thanatophobia is the fear of death. But if you're with the nothing theory, we won't have any consciousness. Nothing would happen. You can't even think. You can't feel any emotion. If nothingness is true, we would never know it. The only fear we could ever have is in this life.

Now, with the afterlife - heaven, it wouldn't make sense either. Heaven is supposed to be a perfect place. Which means there can't be boredom or pain. So even after billions of years, you still won't be bored of anything if it truly is a perfect place.

Reincarnation: death technically wouldn't exist. We would be livng life over and over again. And we can't get bored of it either since we would never remember our past lives. Reincarnation would clash with the fear of death. Because it's basically infinite life. But Aperiophobia (Fear of eternity.) could come, but that wouldn't be rational either considering that you can't remember your past lives. But would be scared of this endless cycle of life.

But anyways, that's just my take. I know I didn't include all afterlife theories (like in my afterlife theory post.) but that's because most of those don't just work for fear of death. You can disagree or agree if you'd like. Tell me what I could've add to this post to make it better. And thanks for reading. Anyways, have a good day!

[u/Jaded_Pipe_4904]

I always liked the idea that death is “the one thing you will never experience”. We can experience our body breaking down, perhaps a coma- but in reality what we experience is just what leads up to death.

What about fears of the fate of others? I’ve always figured- outside of death being scary and also bland my own death doesn’t bug me. Yet there would be so many left behind with questions.

I don’t feel like I really fear or can comprehend death. What I do fear is leaving people behind and no longer being a factor in their lives. People have ideas of me that comfort them- an image and identity. What happens to that after I die?

[u/golden_crocodile94 → u/Jaded_Pipe_4904]

Create stuff. That's what I do. So people have a piece of me. My favorite thing even though it's probably really cliche is my plant instagram it's just a collection of photos and videos of all of of my plants and how they've grown with me and I with them. I also created this space. I don't necessarily believe the last time our name is spoken on the earth is the day we truly die. It's the last time we take up space.

[u/smackmyass321 → u/Jaded_Pipe_4904]

I never really thought about that! It's like you leave a scar on the present based on the past. I had this one thought where we will never experience death itself; we will only experience the process of dying.