No, death is not the ultimate fear, it is merely the reason fear exists. The reason you fear things like lightning, or bad guys, or what have you, is due to your survival instinct. You fear it, so you stay away from it, so you have a greater chance of not being harmed by it and therefore a greater chance of surviving to procreate and pass on your genetic material to the next generation for the continuation of the species. But what would fearing death do for you? You can't avoid it, there's nothing you can do to stop it...you can fear the things that would cause it, you can fear the ways it might happen, because that has a useful purpose, causing you to avoid those things, but fearing death itself would get you nowhere.bodyklok said:
And no, when you die, you won't be able to do anything, that's true, but I think you're missing the point. You die, the synapses in your brain stop firing, there is no you. You can't hurt, you can't fear, you can't think, you can't be, because as much as people would like to think more of themselves, we are nothing more than an incredibly complex web of chemical and electrical signals. No signals, no you. Why be afraid of a state in which you can no longer fear?
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