Are you afraid of dying?

If you are: why?

I believe fear of death is partly based on the false premonition that death is somehow a state of being. It’s not.
After the point of your death, you cease to exist. That does not mean floating around in darkness. It doesn't mean being nothing.
It means eternal nothingness of no non-existence. Nothing.

In other words, nothing to worry about.

>>5
Don't be a jew.  Don't lull yourself in to believing in eternal life.  Energy does not get destroyed, but consciousness does.  The energy that makes you will still exist when you die, but you will not be conscious of anything.

>>18

Don't be a jew.  Not existing isn't so bad.  Anyway, you don't have to worry about it because you will still exist after you die.  You just won't be conscious of anything.  At least, all that gives you your personal identity will not be conscious.  Other life forms will be consious though, so in a way, the universe will always be conscious of itself.  And perhaps some day we will all be able to assimilate the consciousness of other beings, in a way like the borg, but hopefully not in such a disturbing way.  Does that give you enough hope that there is eternal life?

There is always hope for eternal life.  I think of it this way... there will probably always be life forms in the universe... and they will probably always be advancing and evolving over millions, or billions of years... perhaps evolving to some great purpose which I do not yet understand.  And even if this universe some day is destroyed, either by the big crunch, or by expanding in to nothingness.... there is still a definite possibility of other dimensions and other universes which also contain consciousness.  Therefore, there is a good chance that existence is infinite.  YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!