What should I read to cope with my fear of death?
What should I read to cope with my fear of death?
Nothing. Embrace it.
Denial of Death written by some jew professor is great, and Kierkegaard
Your should live a full life that's the best way to come to terms with it.
Alternatively you can do as I did. 15 years of debilitating depression made me jaded so I can't even care anymore
Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy
Why fear the death of your body, when consciousness is eternal?
Maybe Meditations by Aurelius.
The Book of the Dead
>The Papyrus of Ani
Epicurus
“There is no death, in this our world. We have reached the beach, and I am one of those, who pulls the nets in; when immortality arrives in batches.”
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Becoming, the totally genuine biography of Michelle Obama.
Then Twilight and then Shakespeare in one of those emoji versions.
Plato
THIS
You weren't afraid of being born, why should dying be any different?
“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.” -epicurus
Also read the myth of sysiphus and the rebel by albert camus
listen to me my dude. Death is the only fact that will for 100% occur in your life so as you dont think all the time that 2+2=4 dont think about death. It will come sonner or later but it will although when it does come you wont care anymore. Pursue your goals untill death comes.
people are scared of death because they are selfish
Notes from the underground
OP here, thanks for the suggestions.
I'll re-read Meditations and Camus and read Epicurus.
Maybe what I truly fear is my life ending without fully having enjoyed it.
Taking psychedelics completely cured my fear of death
the New Testament desu
As a fellow person absolutely terrified of death I have found the myth of Sisyphus to be good as well as Gravity's rainbow, story of the eye, movies like the seventh seal and the holy mountain, musical acts like the bad seeds as well as death grips are also good
you have a shot at living for an indefinite period of time if you're young and healthy right now. Of course, there is also the whole "horrors beyond your comprehension" side of things when it comes to AI and biotechnology.
What should I read to cope with my want to die?
Live a life worth living, that's the only way.
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