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.