From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!li134ad
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Title: Immortality and fear.
Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.302
Posted: Mon Feb 14 22:37:11 1983
Received: Sat Feb 19 04:55:46 1983

I  would like to address the question of why people are afraid to
kick the bucket in the first place. I am afraid to die because I
know that everything ends then. Period. I'm an agnostic, and I have
no evidence(yet) to suggest that I will live on after corpeal 
dissolution. I fear this for a couple of reasons; one, it is
something which I know will happen sooner or later, and that I have
no control over it (people in general HATE not having control) and
two, I like all the rest of the animals around me, have an
incredible instinct for self-preservation. Are these (roughly) the
same reasons that everyone else is afraid? To open the discussion
further, who thinks we shouldn't be afraid to die, and why not?


				   Not afraid to talk about
				   something that most people
				   seem to be afraid of,
				   
				   
				      Jack of Shadows.