The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 10 hours agoIt's not your timelemmy.worldimagemessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up1400arrow-down15
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minus-squarenymnympseudonym@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 hours agoHow did it feel before you were born? After you die, it’s like that again.
minus-squaredrosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 hours agoIt was like that for billions of years and it didn’t bother me in the least.
minus-squarebanazir@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 hours agoThat thought used to scare me to death. Now that I’m older… Yeah, I can let all this grief go when it’s time. It’ll be nice.
minus-squarenymnympseudonym@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours ago“Being dead doesn’t scare me. The process of dying – such as, of cancer – can be terrifying.” -Christopher Hitchens, dying of cancer at the time (paraphrased)
How did it feel before you were born?
After you die, it’s like that again.
It was like that for billions of years and it didn’t bother me in the least.
That thought used to scare me to death. Now that I’m older… Yeah, I can let all this grief go when it’s time. It’ll be nice.
“Being dead doesn’t scare me. The process of dying – such as, of cancer – can be terrifying.”
-Christopher Hitchens, dying of cancer at the time (paraphrased)
Sounds nice to me