Fear of death while also wishing I wasn’t born
Can anyone else relate?
When we compare our lives to the time we’ve spent not having been born and the time we’ll spend being dead, it’s basically just a blip. If I’m right about what happens after death, it will be as if we never even existed at all.
So, what difference would it have made if I truly never existed at all? Thinking about the void is only scary because I was dragged out of it. If I was still in this void for all of eternity there would be no fear or despair about it. But because my time spent in this void is separated by this brief lifespan, I now have to not only deal with the burden of being human but also intense dread over my mortality.
This is why I don’t want to have kids. Why burden them with a fear of this void that they’re so comfortable in right now? Especially when their death may happen after a long and excruciating process?