From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!ee163hp
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Title: Re: Immortality and fear.
Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.303
Posted: Tue Feb 15 03:54:44 1983
Received: Sat Feb 19 13:01:31 1983
References: sdccsu3.302

[Response to "Jack of Shadows" query/discussion of fear of death:]

     Perhaps one good reason not to fear death is fear itself ...
except in crises, fear can be a waste of energy, can distract one from
"higher-level" concerns, and so on.   Knowledge of one's ultimate doom
may spur one on to great glories, but fear needn't be the catalyst. 

                   -- Larry West, UCSD