From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!li134ad Newsgroups: net.philosophy Title: Re: Immortality and fear. Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.311 Posted: Tue Feb 15 14:51:56 1983 Received: Sat Feb 19 13:18:23 1983 References: sdccsu3.302 sdccsu3.303 sdccsu3.305 Perhaps people shouldn't fear death, for the reasons posted by "Larry West" and Lady Arwen, but people DO, and that doesn't seem to be something that's likely to change very soon. Apart from any considerations of whether we should fear death or not, I wonder if anyone knows why they do. Is it simple fear of the unknown, and fear of not surviving, or something different? Jack of Shadows.