Conversely, anything negative will also end. If you don’t like being depressed, there won’t be depression once you’re dead. There is full eternity without depression.
I guess you’re 2 was a counterargument to my 1. I need some literature on this, I don’t quite understand.
Human reactions to impeding doom don’t have to reflect on death. Reality doesn’t have to conform to our emotional reactions to it, after all. We can only come closer to understanding that reality, and if that requires understanding and accepting one’s own mortality, shouldn’t that be a priority? I mentioned the source regarding development stages because it seems children do NOT always innately understand death, it is an acquired knowledge, a milestone, according to this theory. So why learn the fear of death, which can cause so much emotional struggle in a person, instead of teaching death’s primary result: the termination of gene propagation for an individual.
Agreed.
Again, agreed.
Once more, agreed. though I suppose wills help with such planning to an extent, among other actions.
Conversely, if a relative is suffering from their illness, death can provide for a release from that suffering. This probably ties back into point 2.
Overall, agree that the essay failed to explain why death is bad. It also failed to explain why death is good. Hence it being an essay, it didn’t have purpose other than to put thoughts out into the open and rekindle discussion. My intention was to talk, not make claims.
Conversely, anything negative will also end. If you don’t like being depressed, there won’t be depression once you’re dead. There is full eternity without depression.
I guess you’re 2 was a counterargument to my 1. I need some literature on this, I don’t quite understand.
Human reactions to impeding doom don’t have to reflect on death. Reality doesn’t have to conform to our emotional reactions to it, after all. We can only come closer to understanding that reality, and if that requires understanding and accepting one’s own mortality, shouldn’t that be a priority? I mentioned the source regarding development stages because it seems children do NOT always innately understand death, it is an acquired knowledge, a milestone, according to this theory. So why learn the fear of death, which can cause so much emotional struggle in a person, instead of teaching death’s primary result: the termination of gene propagation for an individual.
Agreed.
Again, agreed.
Once more, agreed. though I suppose wills help with such planning to an extent, among other actions.
Conversely, if a relative is suffering from their illness, death can provide for a release from that suffering. This probably ties back into point 2.
Overall, agree that the essay failed to explain why death is bad. It also failed to explain why death is good. Hence it being an essay, it didn’t have purpose other than to put thoughts out into the open and rekindle discussion. My intention was to talk, not make claims.