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| quote: | Originally posted by Sunsnail
Maybe you convinced yourself that you are afraid to die? |
It is not something that needs convincing. If you are born without an innate fear of death, you are not a human being, mortal in this state.
One of man's greatest fears is the unknown - when faced with such things he reverts to his most basic, animal state. There are some things, however, that are even worse than the unknown - like knowing what it is that lurks there. If you say you're not afraid of death, it's only because you've never actually seen it before and can only speculate with uncertainty on what lies beyond it.
Maybe it could be argued that humanity has an innate predisposition towards religious dogma, so it is possible for us to truly overcome the fear of death by belief in a benign afterlife? Yeah, because religious people aren't afraid of anything.
Maybe it could be argued that placid acceptance of one's own death is something that everybody comes to terms with at some point and that, as rational beings, we are able to overcome this fear of the unknown because fear is an irrational thing. Because human beings are really, really rational creatures. Yep, that's us. Rational as can be.
Let me try and clarify things though - "afraid to die" and "never falling asleep again because I'm petrified by the fear of death" are 2 very different things.
We are comfortable in our illusion of safety, some of us comfortable enough to taunt what it is that this illusion guards us from?
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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