My grandfather died last week. When of his death that I didn't feel anything, just numb, until I saw his corpse at the funeral. I had just seen him a few months ago and he was perfectly fine but he just suddenly collapsed and died. My parents didn't want to do an autopsy on him so we don't even why he died but it has left me afraid that I could also just collapse just like that at any moment.

Do you have any ideas on how to mentally deal with the fear of the inevitability of death?

the moment of death does not matter it may be sooner it may be later, the important thing is, did you do your best while you were alive, did you have fun, were you lovely to be around, if the answer is yes then it doenst amtter when or how you die

>>2
But how can you care about long term projects?

>>3 "im so happy i can die"
"now i can die in peace"
"now i can die without regrets"
poeple with genuine long term projects do not care and even embrace the thought of dying pursuing their project.
one of the side effects of fulfillment.

idk if we can even fathom that something other than what we know exists out there, boring people would just say that after you die theres literally nothing, like you cannot experience anything so time doesnt matter anymore itsjust nothing, you stop being. other retarded people just say smth along the lines of "energy doesnt die bro" and ngl im not willing to believe that the "afterlife" is anything like we would expect, like youre not just going to spawn inside sovngarde and exist like you used to. personally ive been scared of the idea that i cannot imagine what exists other that the phenomena that im seing in my everyday life, or the theoretical phenomena that just exist in our myths. life after death is simply another dimension of existance or lack thereof so i just dont think about it usually, ive come t0 terms with the idea that thinking about it blackpills me so i just simplify it in my head. sry for the long response tl;dr people are too dumb to even think that something out there exists so just think about it until the point you get bored of doing so cause there are no answers

thinking about the afterlife is like thinking about fairies and ghosts,we live in a non-magical world, where all myths and legends have their own explainable phenomenon counterpart that inspired them, also its really not that bad here

>>6
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I want to die

very productive contributions fellas

you dont come over the fear of death, you come inside it

you have to embrace it. you can't fight death (unless it literally comes in the form of a savage animal trying to hurt you). it is the one thing that unites all things. be prepared for it. as far as possibilities go, dropping dead at a moment's notice seems to be a desirable outcome when you compare it to other possibilities like a road accident, a (or multiple) gunshot, stab or bite wound(s), poison, venom, starvation, exposure, heatstroke or a long decay by illness. death isn't the one thing to fear, injury is far worse, especially if you survive your wounds. sometimes i think about what life would be like if i had lost a part of my body or a sensory organ. losing the ability to speak wouldn't be much of a bother. losing a hand, an eye or lots of teeth would be quite bad.
>>5
if there's a next life i hope it is as alien as can be to the mammalian experience. i don't want to exit a blood-and-shit world only to enter another blood-and-shit world. i hope that the next world will have no food, no forms, no communication and no colours.
>>6
this nigga really thinks that the perceptible layer is the only existing layer of this world, not to mention the countless other, imperceptible worlds.

>>11
What are the imperceptible layers?

>>12
do you not have thoughts?

>>11 humans create myths and legends out if their experiences, is it that weird to just analyze the human experience that led to experiencing these layers you're talking, the supernatural is not out there, its in the day to day experience of regular poeple mythologized

>>14
not the guy ur replying to but i think it kind of is that weird, or perception is so extremely limited in ways we definitly know and many possible ways in which or perceptions are completely seperate from reality; we don't even know how consciousness works it seems really weird to dismiss as the "human experience" causing these layers.

>>15 try to make sense next time buddy

>>13
Are you saying that thoughts are imperceptible? If u r, thats not true, I just percieved myself thinking about making this post. Or r u saying that I would know of many imperceptible layers if I were capable of thought? That might be true, but I just want 2 hear some examples so I know we're on the same page. Or what?

i don't think thoughts themselves are perceivable. you perceive the content of the thought, but not the thought itself. similarly i don't think you perceive pain, pain is the perception of the thing that causes pain. but perhaps, because pain is measurable with something like an ekg it might be considered perceptible in that way. supposedly thoughts are also measurable with similar technology.
regardless i feel more like thoughts are the means to percieve the imperceptable. the bubbling out of the chaos a signal. that bubbling is an "imperceptable" layer, in that no one could every point to it and say "that's where the thought came from".
and for a lame answer "something something string theory" "something something dark matter" "quantum quantum quantum"