The absence of life itself. It is scary and gives a sense of nihilism to many because they feel like "What's the point if I get forgotten afterwards?"
Well, even if you get remembered, it's not like the universe will go on forever... See: Mourning the act of mourning
Does this lead to people irrationally cherishing the time they are alive? For me, being alive until death is just a fact, nothing more to it.
Where humans avoid risk factors. Thus, they feel scared when they do new tasks, and avoid risks…
This can malfunction into nilihism, because once an organism is born, they are guaranteed to die one day, and a human might say, “What’s the point of living if it’s going to happen and I become forgotten?” Humans are aware of this; other animals are not, but both are still wired to survive, but humans have knowledge of the concept of certain death.
Dead people don't feel dead, they don't feel anything for they have no capabilties to feel anything. The reason it's not an excuse is that a society that allows killings is chaos, and family pain still exists.
Inventing some “meaning” to “distract’ us from certain death, like purpose, esteem, connections, religion…. It's a biological coping mechanism to keep the terror of death away. But biology says otherwise, where a human dies, everything about them is lost. (There’s no proof for life after death, likely scientifically God does not exist: Atheism)
Thus, the question of whether to look for meaning or not causes one of the biggest conflicts in human existence; there are both innovators and lazy (energy-saving) people.
Well, the belief that there is more, but then some end up reverting because there is no evidence to support it, even after lots of research, so they can suddenly feel extremely delusional and potentially depressed.
The philosopher Lucretius argued that we should view the nothingness after death exactly as we view the "eternal darkness" before birth. So, it is the case, yet societally, death is seen as worse than choosing not to give birth/abortion.
A dead person is simply in a state of non-existence. Even if you pray, even if you burn money, or give them gifts, it is all futile as the corpse would not come back to life. Thus, it is a waste of time and money and energy just because it’s a tradition; you should have said your last farewells when he or she was still alive! It’s just that the feeling of grief overwrites most humans’ thinking systems to the point where cannibalism is illegal even though technically it’s a free meat resource (however, this is likely due to health reasons), and methods to bury the dead “properly” are enforced with the threat of legal punishment otherwise (but this is also a health issue). It is mainly said to be just social synchronization because everyone else is doing the same thing. Respecting the dead? The corpse cannot feel respected as they have a lack of sensory input :)
But I don’t really get one thing: why do humans mourn deaths that aren’t personally related to them? I think that just not caring + trying to somewhat personally ignore it is going to lead to more stable emotions, yet many do care. I guess it’s perhaps because humans have evolved to be (perhaps overly) social creatures. Evolutionary issue. As if a weakling like me can do anything…
Wait, in fact, if you mourn every single death in the whole world, the death count will rise faster than your mind can even search up the cause, so thus, as a conclusion, I don’t think mourning deaths is that productive at all.
But, now that I think about it again, maybe you do miss the time when a relative does good things for you. And it might make your emotions better. So I think it can still be done.
It sounds weird, but it sure can be done; you just won't see their
physical self anymore. Rather, it depends on whether there are any
traces left in the record or in the brain's memory.
Example 1: Dead philosophers’ ideas
Example 2: Corpses of relatives are actually remembered for despite no
longer being alive.
Derived from John 10:10:
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that
they may have life, and have it to the full." (NIV)
Is it a method to make people work hard? I think there are better ways
to do this, but most will just blindly believe in their Faith.
But life is just a temporary state, and most are, in fact, FORGOTTEN in
the end.
And isn’t “fullest” subjective!?
It ignores the Biology of Rest. You can't run a processor at 100%
capacity
Thus, I declare, that scripture is meaningless in my current philosophy
In fact, I don't even practice Christianity. Who am I to judge my biased self? Huh.
Rather, I live how I want to... It seems like that this may be just a
side effect of exposure amounts indicating belief strengths...
Look at a dog who is leashed to his owner. Not much work
needed.
One may murder those whom they deem undesirable so that they can
guarantee a life like a dog in prison. At least they won't "struggle" to
live.
Rights won't necessarily be fulfilled, right? Other than "free" (as in
money, not in choice)
food.
a.k.a. The cost of freedom of living is suffering in a system
beforehand
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