Why Philosophers Still Cannot Make Sense of Death

[@barrymiller8137]

I am 81 years old and have worried about death most all of my life until recently,. Now when my life is down to just a few more years, I no longer fear death. The freeing thought for me was realizing that when my brain dies, I won't know I'm dead, just like all those billions of year before I was born. It's like this will be my second death. You are dead. Through some amazing luck, you become consciously aware of your existence for a handful of years and then you go back non-existence. My advice to younger generations is to SLOW DOWN AND LOOK AROUND you. Just take in your surroundings, Notice the kindnesses and connections of human beings to one another. Notice and appreciate the connections to the environment around us that is in perfect balance to protect you from radiation, give you the exact right amount of air to breath and magically turn the sun's rays into food. This is a chant I say to myself: "So lucky to be here now, wonder what will happen next?"

[@filo8197]

Please turn to God before you die, I believe that Christ is the truth

[@brunobucciaratiswife]

@@filo8197Christ is the truth, but we will never know what heaven is or what it holds. For all we know, that simple “not existing” means that we truly are at peace with God, at least until He calls us to do something else. It will be peaceful for all of us.

[@Bokonon999]

@@filo8197 Please prove this, or stop messing with other people's reality. You don't define it. Neither does the Bible.

[@MichaelBrown-me3bh]

@@filo8197the Bible is a book of lies and god does not exist you delusional fool

[@dp-ec9vb]

@@filo8197Look up the video, “Sam Harris demolishes Christianity”

[@mikeys7536]

Life is the halftime show between 2 eternities.

[@Quarce1]

Very poetic

[@haveaday1812]

The price of getting to love someone, is having to lose them. The price of getting to live, is having to die. ~Sebastian Junger, In my time of dying

[@LprogressivesANDliberals]

Balanced as life should be. Amen ✝️

[@Already.Forgotten]

We pursue love and life, knowing full well they come with inevitable loss and death. But in the end, everything fades into emptiness.

[@seanomaille8157]

Is it life?" he answered, "I would rather be without it," he said, "for there is queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, it does not keep the rain out and it is a poor armful in the dark if you strip it and take it to bed with you after a night of porter when you are shivering with the red passion. It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like bed-jars and foreign bacon.” ― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

[@bastiaan7777777]

@@LprogressivesANDliberals ieeuuwuwww religion

[@kubasniak]

What love?

[@weirdwordcombo]

My mother telling me at like 6,7,8? years old that everyone will die one day, was very traumatic at the time for me. I cried a lot.

[@sugarray1982]

Here, here. I can recall a very similar conversation at that stage of life. It unnerved me and shifted how I comprehended life onwards from that point.

[@KydEv]

If there’s something to know, it’s that we die someday. I think the earlier you tell a kid the better (ideally whenever they can grasp the concept)

[@anthonybateman8470]

Same thing happened to me! Has taken a lifetime to unpack.

[@Nick94MI]

Hell I remember going to open casket funerals at that age lol

[@AngryBilleh]

But you had to learn that tho

[@mtheory85]

When you go from being afraid of death to afraid of life is when you know you're old.

[@Kazuma11290]

Death is not evil. You fear death for the same reason you fear darkness or unfamiliar sounds. Life fears what it doesn't understand because being known is a disadvantage in survival. But darkness itself can't hurt you. Death itself won't kill you. It's what uses the unknown that you should fear. But just because you fear something, doesn't make it evil. Imagine how many living things have feared you.

[@meganw9380]

death is evil. we fear death because it inevitably beats me in the end. “Life” does not fear anything, for life is eternal- for though death is inevitable on an individual level, life prevails and continues. the living creatures who have feared me have feared the same death that threatens them, too. they have feared me because i have a life within me which has given me the freedom to choose to be a vessel- a servant of death. death can hurt me, for it triumphs over those who i love, but life is the only one who really has the power to keep me or let me go, and therefore life is what I ought to fear

[@kin-of-orakio]

​@@meganw9380life and death merely are. They're not good or evil.

[@44142726]

that's not why everyone fears death. a lot of us fear death because we know the implications of it. we experience human joy and positive emotions and we know exactly what will happen after we die - we won't experience these any more. our loved ones will miss us. we won't be able to take care of the things we took care of in life. if we have children, they'll lose a parent. our friends might lose a great friend. we won't see any more sunsets or fall asleep to the sound of rain. it's not that we're afraid of the unknown, we're afraid of losing what we know we love and leaving others behind.

[@anieshmichael]

The day we are born, we start our irreversible journey towards death, a destination awaiting us all."

[@syabangena]

Well said …

[@LuisFlores-mc2tc]

Good

[@EdgarDiazSpeaks]

I heavily subscribe to the idea of simply embracing death. When it comes, it comes - thinking too heavily about what comes next only leads to existential crises. As the wise philosopher 50 Cent said, “Death gotta be easy cus life is hard.” That’s enough for me

[@FactsCountdown]

Death is not easy because you would have to go through lots of suffering before dying

[@EdgarDiazSpeaks]

@@FactsCountdown not necessarily… Many people die more or less “peaceful” deaths. Plus, suffering itself is easy - dealing with the suffering is what’s hard😉

[@krockettz3231]

Death is not evil. It’s beautiful. Without it, there wouldn’t be life. Life and death go hand in hand. There no reason to fear death. Do not rush death, it’s guaranteed at one point or another. Live your beautiful life in the physical realm. Your soul traveled for a long time to get to this point. Our bodies are physical, our minds and souls are intangible. When the body goes, the soul is released back to infinity from where we came. It’s nothing to be feared, it’s simply returning home. Wherever that may be, or what it may look like.

[@lukashughes6466]

Respectfully, I disagree. There are plenty of reasons to fear death. We're basically wired to fear it. It's possible to embrace it, but to embrace it doesn't necessitate an absence of fear. I don't think there's any inherent issue with fearing it. I've thought a lot about death since my grandfather died when I was 5. I've gone through many phases and schools of thought about it. I've only finally accepted that I fear it just as much as I know it's inescapable and necessary.

[@krockettz3231]

@@lukashughes6466 I appreciate your perspective. Our differences in view points & thought process is what makes our souls unique - despite us both being humans with similar physical functions. To me, there is nothing to fear because of the inevitability. It’s the one guarantee in our highly variable and ever changing lives. At the end of the road is the same fate as billions upon billions of living creatures have already experienced. It’s gives life a bitter sweet tone. My grandmothers last words, as she lay incoherent and on the verge were “I’m ready to go home”. That always stuck with me. She was at peace in her last moments. Drifting between our reality and the peaceful void. We were already dead before we were born, and didn’t suffer the slightest inconvenience. I think that’s quite beautiful.

[@gollum-qv6lc]

Whatever gets you through the night😂

[@mikehanrahan5559]

"It's simply returning home." I like that.

[@krockettz3231]

@@gollum-qv6lc I have been sleeping well lately, thank you. If you disagree with what I think you have every right, free thought is very valuable. I think one of the best things about pondering death is the infinite possibilities. Whatever your idea you believe is waiting for us, or lack there of, is just as plausible as any idea really. Regardless, once bodies are gone, such intricacies are irrelevant. Cheers friend, hope you enjoy your life

[@iRegzz]

Ive been really anxious lately and havent been able to watch or focus on anything, but your videos always captivate and guide me to ponder about deeper things of life. Thank you for sharing your ideas with us

[@LocalAitch]

I'm not afraid of death, although I'm also not in any hurry. Imagine if our bodies didn't die. Imagine being 50,000 years old. 100,000 years old. 1 million years old. At some point you will be so interminably bored that you'd *want* to end it. I believe our inner consciousness is eternal, and is a little chunk of the "master consciousness" of the universe. When we die, those experiences are integrated back into the master consciousness. Then that chunk of consciousness comes back to have another, mostly disconnected experience (although the idea that sometimes there is remnant memory fascinates me, and also saddens me that most people who have experienced that have those memories forced out by their parents not understanding). Treat each other well. Make someone's in-the-moment experience brighter. That's more valuable than every penny in the world combined.

[@Mani_Katti]

At the age of 6 I started to have nightly panic attacks by imagining what death would be like. My imagined world was an empty void, where everything I knew and love was gone and I would be alone forever, never being able to experience anything ever again. 28 now but still haunted by this lol

[@alexgreber2570]

I have the same thoughts. Its the alone thing THATS scary.

[@Mani_Katti]

@@alexgreber2570 Well, luckily that is just in our brains since once we're dead, 'loneliness' also does no longer exist.

[@MrPlaylistMan]

I'm also 28 and at random times struggle with the doom of death. I don't have as many panic attacks anymore but it's more of a sadness that I might not experience anything anymore. I don't know if I heard this somewhere or if it came from within, but I like to say "when I die, boy I hope I'm in the mood for it"

[@anachronistofer]

Life is a single spark between two eternities. -Vladimir Nabokov

[@lovethyneibor22736]

"Death is a result of having kids" - David Benatar

[@Already.Forgotten]

In the end, everytime someone is born, it’s just a reminder that nothing lasts, and we all end up in the same void.

[@XX-jh2or]

@@Already.Forgotten The creation of a conscious is more complex than the death of it imo.

[@Already.Forgotten]

@@XX-jh2or It really is ironic, as we spend so much time and energy building this complex thing called “consciousness,” only for it to just simply end.

[@Decton]

@@Already.Forgotten if you think about it stars and planets also take a lot of energy just for it to end some times.. we are not special

[@nistarok123]

Daily reminder that this reality of life, death and the constant cycle of existence is designed to be ever expanding and unknowable so that you can forget that you have existed forever. And will continue to exist forever. Even when you die, you can't experience even an infinite amount of time being dead. Therefore, you are likely to experience consciousness again. And again. And again.

[@arvydasguokas603]

yep, unfortunately (or fortunately? idk) theres only consciousness, materialistic science is a false ideology.

[@sultanalali593]

I want Everyone reading this to try to remember the time before they are born

[@louisianabred616]

This thought has always given me comfort in times of anxiety when I think of death.

[@danielmart7940]

I was floating around in a water tank of some sort. I cried and wailed when I got evicted. I didn't realize I had only paid the rent for 9 months in advance. Some guy even slapped my ass when I went outside. I guess he wanted to make sure I learned my lesson about getting behind in rent payments.

[@Void-Dreaming]

What's the difference in trying to remember something in principal? Just bc we don't remember something doesn't mean we weren't alive in the conceptualize sense.

[@LuisSierra42]

I remember

[@odysseus8944]

I can't because I can't have infinite memories, in fact I can't even imagine what it would be like to have infinite memories and being infinite years old

[@hab0272]

Whatever happens after death could be completely random every time one dies. One might experience life from the perspective of a familymember or reincarnate as a dinosaur. Maybe one wakes up on a strange exotic planet one life, and experiences a hell-dimension the next. Between lifes there might also be intervals of complete nothingnes that last eternities.

[@MD-zm6sn]

Out of body experiences after dying under general anesthesia stories are quite interesting. Especially all the ones involving people who were born blind. There's more to this place than what it looks like. Observe enough factors and it's easy to infer. Some of us have gone there. The most profound aspect of that place is that every bit of your perception fully comprehends that it is HOME.

[@wendypeters6084]

Thanks, I think this is helpful

[@brianlevi6823]

The human mind can never be trusted. The very reason they have these stories is that they are human in the first place, and that is the point of this video.

[@deeehmt_305]

I think we have to be careful with how we define “death” if a person has returned whether it be from the heart stopping, the breath stopping, loss in body temperature, etc… has that person truly experienced death? I don’t think anyone has ever experienced true death and returned. Excluding religious literature obviously. This is why we will never know

[@gollum-qv6lc]

"Especially all the ones born blind" . Do you really think there is one documented case of this? Or just stuff you hear about or have read.

[@MD-zm6sn]

@@gollum-qv6lc Peer reviewed lil homie.

[@spicyfelony]

As we are already dead, then we are free to do anything within known limits, free to do whatever really, our story's end is already spoiled, so then begins the journey on not how we die, but how we live the life that we have, and where that takes us in the end. By having nothing that matters, in return gives something that matters, the knowledge that knowing life is pointless. So do not live your life based on the standard of others, rather live life by the standard and value of one's self.

[@aquacruisedb]

Of course there is "something" after death, no one can deny that. But if you identify solely with the ego, your thoughts, your memories - then yes, there is nothing. But if you realize that ego identity is just an illusion, temporary, and changing; then you realize that everything carries on. You aren't the same person today as yesterday, or as last year, that "person" is already dead. So what's the difference? Proof that there is something after death? Just attend a funeral, then look around - life carries on, the cemetery alone is teaming, the universe keeps on expanding...

[@SelfEvident]

im14andthisisdeep

[@brianlevi6823]

We are created to feed earth, thats all. Earth will forever remain, we will come and go as many before us and many after us.

[@CyberUtilia]

What if all observers in the universe died? Would the universe still exist?

[@Jay-l9b4o]

You are generalizing the question, your answer, and the statement of there being something after death. Logically thinking, when someone ask that question, they are referring to the soul, and/or consciousness, still being as it is when our bodies are alive. You are referring to the biological, chemical, and various scientifically observable processes of matter and energy in the universe, and how it all functions, and recycles within itself. Philosophy and Science, only can function properly, if used with the rule that everything we believe to be true/right, has just as much possibility to be false/wrong.

[@Mark_Jacobson81]

That’s not what their point was. They’retalking about the subjective experience of an individual, not the universe or anything else.

[@black-cross]

When I was 8 years old, I didn’t believe in God. I thought that was nonsense; only the material world is real, and everything else is wishful thinking. I remember lying awake at night, staring at the ceiling, terrified that one day I would cease to exist. I couldn’t even compute it. One day, all of my memories are going to be gone? I was horrified for years and years. It was my waking nightmare. I didn’t even want to think about it. Because when I did, all I felt was darkness and emptiness. Until I made my peace with it. I realized that, hey, I can cease to exist at any second, but that hasn’t happened yet, so, until that happens, why worry about it? I was still scared every time that that thought popped into my mind, but so, what?

[@spaceship3561]

You have a cross as your profile, are you religious now?

[@black-cross]

@@spaceship3561 I know now God is real and I follow Him.

[@VinceMcmahon-un9hb]

Maybe That's why religions exist. Coz it gives a sense of comfort to humans that whatever is going to happen when they die they will atleast be in a good place after like heaven and that's why many don't do sins coz they are just so scared of death and hell after life. But I mean it's good that so many humans are able to accept these things while I don't believe in any religion and Afterlife.

[@FactsCountdown]

​@@black-cross religion is just another coping mechanism to distract you from the death.

[@black-cross]

@@VinceMcmahon-un9hb just because something is comforting, doesn't mean it isn't true. Maybe it's comforting because it's true.

[@ootenyafoo6935]

Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death" is perhaps the best analysis of human angst concerning death. If you've ever been under general anesthetic, then you have a pretty good idea about death - not bad at all!

[@jhwhthemerciful]

There is no death bro, there is only consciousness

[@GS42SCHOPAWE]

Great ideas in that book

[@bluemassgamer17]

​@@jhwhthemercifulIs consciousness a type of energy? And if energy can't be created nor destroyed then where does the energy of consciousness go?

[@CFOlsen]

Another author to read is David Benatar. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Never_to_Have_Been

[@AvoidTheCadaver]

I've had a number of brushes with death. Nearly bled to death, electrocution, blunt force trauma but each time I've survived. But each time I've had no fear, death comes as it will and when it comes without my awareness I will not know that it has taken me

[@sethwardd]

I'd like to think that if we really do fade into non existence, maybe one day billions of years from now, matter will by happenstance remake that exact code that caused my existence and what I call myself might return into being again.

[@bsan7919]

If this reality if infinite/ eternal this is an inevitability.

[@krockettz3231]

@@sethwardd I have a feeling this is how it works. At our core, we are energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred. When we die, our energy goes elsewhere, becomes something new, or multiple new things.

[@nathanmikangi9756]

Just came from my undergraduate lab session on transition metals. Back to my room, now listening to this for refreshment.

[@bboyneon92]

Just this evening, I was hit by "impermanence". Impermanence of emotions, individuals, place, experiences, etc. It's not my first time experiencing this. I'm aware and I thought i had made peace with it. However, the grief from realising that everything is temporary hit in a way where you feel your legs tremble. It's difficult to embrace it sometimes.

[@linobeano337]

it hurts

[@keithmoyers4022]

Instead of focusing on the impermanence, try to imagine living forever. Would you want that? Imagine living for a million years. A million years of getting up every day and doing the same thing over and over. Not to mention how crowded it would get on this planet. That sounds more miserable to me than just 75 years or so and then getting to rest and not worry anymore.

[@bboyneon92]

@@keithmoyers4022 I understand your point keith. I'm not addressing death alone here. I'm talking about relationships, learning, gathering of knowledge, experiences, the ones you live and yearn for.

[@keithmoyers4022]

@@bboyneon92 Understood. It's always an interesting topic and conversation.

[@colinn1898]

But as he stands before imminent death, he grasps its nature also, and the cosmic import of the step to come. His creative imagination constructs new, fearful prospects behind the curtain of death, and he sees that even there is no sanctuary found. And now he can discern the outline of his biologico-cosmic terms: He is the universe’s helpless captive, kept to fall into nameless possibilities. From this moment on, he is in a state of relentless panic. - Peter Wessel Zapffe

[@jedaaa]

The painting on the door analogy was inspired! I'm stealing that one 😅

[@uselessvad2444]

A few days ago I found out that I have a mouse in my apartment. So my plan was to catch it and release somehow. I wasn't going to buy a mousetrap for just one. Then a few hours ago I was going to take a hot bath like I do from time to time. I have a small bathroom and I filled it with hot water, washed my body. When I was in the bathtub I could hear something scratching plastic and I thought it was weird. When I got out I found the mouse dead in a plastic bucket in the bathroom. I think it dead to the heat that I have created when I filled the bathtub with hot water, the moisture in the air, the close space, the heat resulted into mouse's demise. Or maybe it's died of starvation, although I could hear it scratch the bucket in agony I believe, or as it was trying to climb out of it

[@jeux1d100]

A lot of words, about a complexe working machine, becoming a non working machine.

[@Tony-jl8li]

All i know is I wasn’t here for billions of years, 26 years ago. My parents didn’t have sex or meet yet, and I was just a thing. Life is this. Exactly what you’re feeling now. The only reason you’re alive is because your heart mind and everything else in your body is doing its part. You feel because your central nervous system and emotions because of your brain. You see because the eyes and so on. Death is the complete opposite of life. No fear, no colors, no breathing, no us. We are proof in the pudding that we are once. You, I and everyone else will exist once. When you decay, you will never exist again. Death is the end of life, that’s it.

[@michaels_channel44]

When I realized that I am not my body, death became powerless over me:. Mind you, I still have to wrestle the anxious, raw panic that attempts to engulf me entirely when I, in a moment, become acutely aware of my mortality. That moment can - under some extreme inner-strength nothing short of divine intervention (or adrenaline! lol) - be overcome. The fear accompanying one's own mortal demise can be defeated. The pain of death is something else even some self-immolating master zen Buddhists cannot all overcome. Yet, since some do, it is possible! The death of the body is not the end. Since the zen Buddhist monks who did successfully overcome both pain and death cannot give first-hand accounts, the only proof can come by experience, and it can not be shared. Sadly.

[@Siekoooo]

I just ordered your book Man you are just inspiring like no one else in my life You changed me to the better and i want to move on your footstep and write and do this kind of videos to the arab world If you have any advice it would mean the world to me

[@WindmillFighter]

Glad to see you coming back to your own videos instead of summarizing other people's philosophy. I hope that one day you also get back to those wonderful short stories that mixed science fiction, technology and philosophy. Much love to you all.

[@Already.Forgotten]

Trying to understand death only highlights how pointless our existence is. Our thoughts and fears are temporary, just like life. Whether we fear death or try to find meaning in life, we all face the same inevitable void. Even if we acknowledge that we can’t know what comes after, it doesn’t give life any true meaning because in the end, everything eventually leads to nothingness.

[@jorgek92]

So for that reason, embrace absurdism ;)

[@Already.Forgotten]

@@jorgek92 Finding joy in the absurd might provide a temporary distraction, but it still doesn’t make existence any more meaningful.

[@jonaseggen2230]

Sabine Hossenfelder: What is nothing? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpnJopd4oJ2krs0 Marsha Onderstijn: The Life of Death; kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZfRdJd5bbVqZsk

[@SelfEvident]

you coping is pointless

[@Already.Forgotten]

@@SelfEvident And you telling me that I’m coping is pointless.

[@E73RN4LLYABLAZED]

How could we ever recognize being alive had we not been dead before? As that other commenter had said, "try to remember the time before you were born". Trust the cycle. Another interesting thing that I've discovered on my personal journey is that what you are doing right now, big or small, will have a growing impact on the future, you leave traces of yourself behind in everyone you meet, and everything you touch, so therefore everything and everyone they meet contains a part of you and vice a versa. We are manifestations of our ancestors enjoying the work of our most ancient ancestors, our future generations will be manifestons of us enjoying our work. We are just as much them as they were and will be us. It's all the natural cycle. In the same way an apple tree produces always the "same" apple.

[@elbertestes9480]

This sounds on the surface like Epicurianism, but goes very close to Buddhist thought . "with our mind, we make our thoughts, with our thoughts we make the world." ( my zen practicing friends would simply state~" not two"...)

[@aceman1858]

To paraphrase Alan Watts: What will it be like to go to sleep and never wake up? How did you wake up without ever going to sleep, when you were born? What was that like, did you even recognize you did it? Perhaps as you die, you will have an experience that solidifies life and its many disparate purposes, so much so you’ll think, “I get it now, I get why we die, I wouldn’t miss this experience for the world.” Those thoughts bring me comfort, and whether or not you subscribe to his views, they’re interesting ideas to reflect on

[@xurgognr74]

The fact that we cannot remember anything before being born means that the only thing we will experience after death is to be born again (as consciousness). WE ARE ONE.

[@Dan_Delix]

This!

[@Hawkeyejk]

I hope the new book will come in an audible format

[@janycebrown4071]

The fear of death is natural. We are afraid of what we don't understand.

[@emilstvring7577]

well, it's hard to understand something that isn't, as even giving it a name "death" implies that it is, but that is misleading, as while dying is a event, going toward death, death itself is more of a lack of something, to not be, or simply the end of dying and existing ...it's hard to put something indescribable and inconceivable into words

[@janycebrown4071]

@@emilstvring7577 Yes.

[@uncleurda8101]

​@@emilstvring7577 Zen in a nutshell

[@killurbob3295]

Ive met my Dopplegänger three times. The second time, I was woken up at 3am, feeling a presence in the room, I rolled over in bed.. and there I was.. knelt down with my hands placed on the bed, smirking.. he was younger than me, about 21.. im in my 30s now.. Theres nothing stranger than spending a moment with yourself, staring into eachothers eyes.. Trust me.. he came from somewhere

[@Awesomes007]

Death is the greatest thief.

[@E.a.Z.S.e.n.T]

The thought now actually seems kinda exciting for what might come after death if there will be. Cause if this life is pretty incredible and complex then imagine being conscious in any type of other existance...That seems like something to look forward to. Cause if consciousness exist after it will be amazing to witness and comprehend.but if not than it wouldn't even matter cause there is no conscious to even comprehend that you ever even died in the first place .

[@geraldinesasquatch3728]

I don't often remember dreams when I sleep. The time passes, and I am only aware of it because the sun came up or the clock changed. Things might have happened when I slept that I had no perception of but I only know that from stories or evidence. Like how I percieve the time before I was born. This is how I picture the nothingness of death. The difference is that I do not wake up, and I cannot perceive that the time has passed. This is not a problem. Mid sleep, I do not miss the time I had already been sleeping as I am still not perceiving that time.

[@vetteluvnh]

Beautiful. Thank you

[@aamado28]

This is amazing! Keep doing this

[@AshleyGraetz]

“Their changing places and taking different forms is what we call ‘death.’ It’s a process which restores the energy level in nature that has gone down. In reality, nothing is born and nothing is dead.” (Source: U.G. Krishnamurti )

[@shriya5789]

Honestly, I don’t fear my own death as much as I fear my close ones’ deaths. That’s more terrifying than my own death

[@duxexercitus4808]

Life and light share a natural affinity, as both symbolize awareness, understanding, and experience. In physics, light allows us to observe the universe, revealing truths about our surroundings. Similarly, in life, our consciousness illuminates our existence, enabling us to perceive reality, form memories, and experience emotions. Life is dynamic, ever-evolving, much like light's ceaseless motion through space. Death, however, is like a black hole-a region where the laws of physics break down, and we encounter profound uncertainty. Just as light cannot escape a black hole's gravitational pull, life cannot return from death to share its mysteries. This suggests that death might be a boundary of perception, where our current understanding of existence simply does not apply. A black hole distorts time and space, and death, perhaps, distorts or transcends our usual sense of time, self, and experience.

[@lawnmower1066]

“Death is the mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.” - Buddha *This quote highlights the importance of understanding and reflecting on the nature of death as a means to gain insight into life.*

[@earnyourimmortality]

The brain is a transmitter/receiver. Thus, true thought comes in & out from the place where All thought exist... The ether. What one tunes themselves with determines what thoughts are potentially available.

[@brianeasterling9317]

I don't think we as a collective fear death as much as we fear the suffering that leads up to it.

[@Wellhenlo]

As always. You reached me just in time. Let's see what you have to teach me this time. Your efforts are wondrous btw ^-^

[@sev6n]

love it here

[@gorawen]

yep :)

[@AutismoGamer]

Is it death that breaks science or the approach and misunderstanding of it? Sometimes the logical approaches from the smartest of people sill result in the same things Think outside the box

[@Omnilosopher]

This might comfort others who are trapped in the thought of the meaningless of existence, when you're thinking about the meaningless of life, are you actually experiencing the meaningless? is meaningless a tangible thing? Or are you simply just trapped in your brains attempts to link meaningless to the physical world? Meaningless isn't an experience, its a mindset. Meaningless isn't real but experience actually is, so when you think of it, stop trying to imagine your life "as it" because the experience isn't linked to a thought or a mindset, it just is. Human experience is a genuine, real, experientiable thing. Meaningless is merely our brains conceptualisation of it.

[@Chr0nicly0ffline]

I think that maybe we aren't meant to know the truth about death because it's the answer to life itself. There's a strange comfort and release of responsibility when it comes to death because we won't know until we experience it and until then we will never know

[@Nathaniel-r8l]

0:26 : nonsense. When my wife died, part of me died with her. Yet here I am. Epicurus is wrong.

[@MrPlaylistMan]

He would probably tell you your mistake was being attached to your wife .... No joke

[@Mylifedoc-lg6dp]

hope you are okay.. Take care.

[@HippocritterXD]

I think death doesn't exist, that it's a human construct. Created to explain the end of a life. I don't know what happens when we leave this world, but I know since nothing doesn't exist something must remain

[@emilstvring7577]

Maybe "nothing" doesn't exist, but whatever state you were in before you started to exist, is most likely also what you will become when you stop existing, and that "something" is pretty damn close to nothing

[@jeb_neb8029]

“”I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it” -Mark Twain

[@Carlosdgaf]

Life is just a vacation from death

[@sun.sneezer]

if you're anxious about any of this i highly suggest consulting the mushroom guides on the subject

[@sun.sneezer]

bro was really feeling the existential weight for this one. ROBERT (and everyone reading): we are on the same page for appreciating the deeper mystery of everything butttt words have their limits my guy. the MIND will not THINK its way to transcendence. yet we all know by the INTUITIVE FEELING of the HEART that there is something deeper, larger, greater, quieter, invisible-er than this humanoid experience. i.e. the subtext of this wonderful video essay of yours ;) you are very much correct that no one can 'know' via standard processes of the brain, which is wired for a physical animal survival/well-being at its root. those more developed parts of the brains allow us to RECEIVE, in our awareness, further complexity and profundity from the Source Field of Consciousness rather than CREATING the conscious experience. the privileged few who experience and recognize (REMEMBER) the unadulterated ground nature of Being, be it ceremony or recreation, have no fear nor worry of death, as they (we?) know it is the most common and beautiful of transitions from one plane to the next. It is like taking off a tight shoe, well worn. there is a larger story, agenda, adventure, unfolding through the limitless deaths and births on the physical plane, and we are all (lucky to be) a part of it. :) to understand more of this, one has to become receptive to shifting the window of your context of what is 'TRUE' (get some fresh air, open that thing). this is, for better or worse, experiential, which is why I again suggest the many tools and resources humans now have at their disposal to open another eye of the Mind (and heart)... of course, be smart about it. peace & love

[@georgeburdell517]

it's true -- it can't be thought through with the tools that we have --- we can only imagine and that's probably the key.

[@ThisisRubbishlo]

Perhaps you go to what you believe in, you believe in nothing you return to nothing, you believe in reincarnation you will return for another life, who knows what happens, it is an eternity before and an eternity after we are gone from life, I hope there’s something, if anything, maybe live a life like this is the only one you get and make the best of this life as best you can. You got this!

[@EndlessAmount]

I will never stop watching this Channel, also W thumbnail change

[@MikeyPatrie3022]

In my 35 years of living nothing has brought me more equanimity than this channel. You will never fully see nor know how much you truly help me see this beautiful existence that we all share. I can never thank you enough.

[@joshua.recovers]

I'm 33 and I'm right there with you.

[@froodoftheforest]

You can thank him 'enough' though, he linked his book at the very beginning. Support the artist. :)

[@joshua.recovers]

@@froodoftheforest i own all of his books so far. 😉

[@piehound]

My upstairs neighbor just signaled to me to stop watching this video. Even though i'm using headphones. They have a habit of tapping and thumping on their floor . . . which is my ceiling. But i enjoyed it just the same.

[@Misandry101]

In my view, the transient nature of life is what gives it value and that the person that discovered the lightning path of Buddhism, meaning the first Tibetan Buddhist dilemma was an atheist and the whole Anti-Sacrifice culture of Nepal at the time and how it's become that way is a result of that

[@echoshadow1490]

I don't find death paradoxical at all. It's not simply not understandable bc of our limited subjective experience: it's utterly unkowable, bc all of its essence is the very lack of that experience. Therefore, it isn't a mystery, bc it's not something out of our reach: it's not even something. It's nothing. So there is nothing to understand. To base a philosophy and an entire view of life on something that doesn't even exist is futile. The only thing that is meaningful is life.

[@iamanidiot8624]

: Do you fear death..? Me: No. : Why..? Me: My misery will be gone.

[@jcgrx2251]

It will happen to everything in the universe. This platform, this internet, this phone, this room, this country, this planet, this galaxy, this universe, this person making the comment.

[@iconhugoofficial2592]

"posted 1 minute ago"... Pure joy

[@Paperbutton9]

Do you feel special?

[@CyberUtilia]

@@Paperbutton9 Is the internet going to soon collapse and this video become unavailable?

[@FreeRiderFMX]

I have no idea what youre saying but I love it

[@s1w29am]

The more i think about death , the more i have no fear for death since death is just a natural event

[@Inmemorial]

I didn't exist, I existed and then I didn't exist again.

[@mohgujai]

You know what death feels like? Imagine the time just after you fell asleep, but before you dream, that's what it'll be like, you don't even know you were here, it's scary.

[@arvydasguokas603]

lol no, its like before birth, which was not like anything, just non-existence and I guess you did not experience non-existence. Materialists imagine it to be like some sort of infinite void of sleep, but guess what, dreamless sleep is still an experience that requires a brain. Whats it like to not exist and not have a brain really?

[@cypherglitch]

5:22 Just because someone can not see or experience something they will dismiss it, and claim that no one can know with certainty what death is, what happens after.... . its a very limited way of thinking.

[@zenosama1157]

It's about two years i think about suicide..... it's not fear who keeps me alive but guilt and responsibility versus my kids

[@78town]

This is one reason I'm religious.. if the experience of nothingness is the great end of the human soul, then all was for nothing. It's too coincidental that 1 species has been given dominion, and that species ponders its own existence and meaning. Yearning for something beyond this realm. An intuition that we are not flux to flux.

[@arvydasguokas603]

well you cannot even experience non-existence, even the modern materialistic scientistic thinking that after death theres just this void of nothingness, is still a belief in an afterlife lol, which doesn't even make any sense. Even if everything is truly materialistic, reincarnation is inevitable anyways eventually, but from experience of the paranormal I know materialism is crap.

[@joerocket1977]

Consciousness never dies, only the ego. The author views this from the materialist view. The idealist knows better. It is really consciousness that breaks science. We have no idea where it resides or how it works. Can anything exist outside of subjective experience? I think most would agree not. Science itself is always seen through the lens of perception. Consciousness creates the universe. Materialism is dead man, where have you been. Read some more Descartes, consciousness is primary and quantum physics points to this.

[@seanomaille8157]

“Is it life?" he answered, "I would rather be without it," he said, "for there is queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, it does not keep the rain out and it is a poor armful in the dark if you strip it and take it to bed with you after a night of porter when you are shivering with the red passion. It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like bed-jars and foreign bacon.” ― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

[@SqueakyPhilosopher]

Interesting. What's the follow up? Bro kills himself?

[@laetarnus]

Remember that you have not experienced billion of years before you were born. Now think about this: if the Universe dies and gets reborn, at some point you too will return, when eternity passes, of which you would not know.

[@Johnamekin]

Mr. Wonder youre due to watch a couple dozen of hours of people recounting their NDEs, find their common ground and come to your own theory. Its a fascinating subject and with the advent of internet allowing people to tell their stories, I always wonder why it's not more researched. Start with Melon Thomas-Benedict's NDE if you can, that one is awesome about the subjectivity of the universe about a single life.

[@benmillward1640]

For me, Death is in a strange way, exciting; the uncertainty of it all makes it so. Death may be one of the greatest blessings, if not, and it is the final, then it saves us from eternity.

[@syabangena]

“It saves us from eternity” … well said

[@Jon_W.]

Memento mori, brothers

[@alcohalic6338]

"The capacity to ideate". Precisely.

[@axio8]

The religious theory, especially that of Abrahamic faiths at the very least, is not the assertion of what happens after death in the literal sense - all account of after death experience can be reduced down to the simple assertion that there indeed is continuity of life or experience of some kind that cannot be comprehended completely in our current modality. It's like saying that we do have an idea of what 4th or 5th spatial dimensions are, at least in the mathematical sense, but we cannot experience those dimensions ourselves first hand, i.e. subjectively. Moreover, the fundamental theory of most religions is that true knowledge is revealed and a priori. We as humans in our current modality just go through the experience of rediscovering or "revealing" within ourselves what we already know.

[@bros4ever151]

the issue is not death; the issue is 1- dying and 2- knowing you are going back into nothingness if you really feel it, yes you will be more aware of your surroundings , enjoy relationships, etc, etc. The hard part is then doing boring work to make a living. You feel even more the waste of your time..........

[@KrelianLoke]

One day we can ask a tardigrade its anecdotal experiences of death.

[@christlevania5933]

death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back

[@mutinydiveco4232]

My question is if all my thinking and observations of things happens in the past, how am I having any thought at all? Am I dead already and now I’m seeing my “life go before my eye” before checking out? Is a downloading experience for the everything??

[@EJN-44-47]

The strange paradox that all life is interconnected & death doesn’t exist as we collectively project it to be…

[@MrQuestionMark]

If there was life after death, then what is the point of death?

[@portugeese_man_o_war]

Guys I'll die sometime later in my life I'll tell you all what it's like if they have KZbin

[@weirdwordcombo]

In sense it is very amusing to think that all religious people may just stop existing, with no afterlife to occur. And they will never know 😂

[@syabangena]

With no way of even communicating …

[@brunobucciaratiswife]

Death has always been very close to me. Since 9 years old, I’ve been making attempts on my life at least three times a year, with varying degrees of severity. Last May, I took a dose that would have been fatal. If I hadn’t have been to the ER in time, they wouldn’t have been able to help me. It was pure luck and good timing. I was close to dying. I was afraid of it, afraid of missing out on life, moreso- but I was ready. It was warm and gentle. I had nothing to lose, nothing to worry about, I had lost *everything* at that point. The strange thing is, after surviving, it didn’t make me feel relieved or give me a “wake up call” moment. I knew how close I flew to the sun, and I didn’t care at all. I still don’t. It made no difference to me, it was no different than being told the weather. Just try to live as best you can. Make beautiful moments, be kind to others.

[@daviddelgado6090]

I'm fortunate not to have died at a young age. I've had enough time to acknowledge that the odds of dirt, air, and water having self awareness are infinitesimal, which is pretty cool.

[@warrenbradford2597]

I'll wait to get enough currency to get my own copy of the book.

[@auxmobile]

I recently came to the following realization: We live in order to learn how to lose.

[@Phantomselbst]

I neither desire nor fear death.