Hi Alex,

Thanks for the thoughts.

What you wrote definitely does make sense and may very well be the only real way to find peace.

I think of death as how it was before we were born and became conscious, for the 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang. Just nothing. Nothing to fear and nothing to experience. Why don't we fear that? It's equally nothing as "after" death.

Could argue that the alternative of never dying may be worse than death.

For example, if mind uploads were scientifically/technologically feasible and we can live forever, we may still face the same issue of death, but on longer timeframes such as the heat death of the universe or our far future driven by accelerating expansion of the universe. (As an important point, there's no gaurantee that a mind-uploaded self retains continuity of our "current" stream of consciousness.)

Could also be that living forever would be worse. Imagine in the far future of 10^1000 years when all the stars go out, and any left over Black Holes have all evaporated, and there's only the "effective" nothingness of "existing" (and continually expanding) spacetime with barely anything in it.

Could this be worse than the pure void of non-existence after death with no consciousness? Probably...

Kevin