Death Anxiety - eviltoast

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I was having an actual panic attack thinking about death earlier and I thought going on wikipedia would make me feel better… it did not

  • idiomaddict@feddit.deEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    I don’t know if you still want help or if this will work, but I’m always calmed by the inevitability of death. It’s the one thing that’s definitely supposed to happen.

    • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      It’s not the fact that it’s going to happen that troubles me, but the how.

      Car accident? Fall down the stairs and snap my neck? Some guys break into my house and rape me before slitting my throat? Sleep apnea doesn’t end in me suddenly waking?

      There are millions of possibilities. And then, my brain has to grapple with the lack of existence. How does kaitco simply stop existing? I spent some 13 billion years not existing and then I’m here, but then I’m not?

      Anywhoozle…I’m gonna go play video games for a couple hours.

      • idiomaddict@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Sorry. Do you know any really old, happy people well enough to talk to them about death? In my experience they’ve got a perspective that’s reassuring, but it does go in the same direction: you get to finally rest, etc.

        • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          I have my 84 year old grandparents, one of which has cancer, both are terrified, and the only positive notion is “At least I don’t have to suffer any more.”