We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.
We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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