Talk:Not Dead/@comment-5678930-20140306162816/@comment-31077845-20170208023124

...said a very, very unimaginative individual who's probably also about 12 and hasn't actually taken the time to consider the true nature of death, of eternal oblivion, if they honestly believe rape and watching a brutal murder take place is worse than death. I've seen enough pain in my life that I'd witness a brutal murder take place for every year or two that it would extend my life.

But then again our fear of death...it's mostly an illusion brought about by our biology, since if we weren't afraid of dying we would've died out as a species long ago. The will for our genetic line to survive is something we share with every living thing, from the largest animal to the tiniest virus to even prions, which are nothing but floating bits of DNA that implant themselves in the cells of greater organisms and utilize their cellular machinery to reproduce. I'm terrified of death, but I was a biology major, so I know that's just my biology recognizing that dying means the death of my genetic line, which biologically is the worst possible outcome, as propagation of one's genetic line is the closest thing there is to the meaning of life.

However as an existentialist I also recognize that none of it means anything. Eventually all genetic lines will cease to exist. Hell, the universe itself will cease to exist. Maybe some theories are right and it'll all contract and the big bang will occur again, or maybe our universe is once and done and we're nothing more than a blip in the eternal timeline of a dead universe where entropy has reached equilibrium and nothing more is possible. All I know is that none of our genes will survive, and our biological fear of death is nothing but a prolonging tactic, keeping us alive as long as possible. But it can't last forever. Ultimately all of humanity means nothing and will eventually be dust in a universe devoid of anything but the background static of entropy.

I guess my point is that, child, you've barely even begun to consider the nature of your existence or death if you're even capable of producing examples that are "worse" than death. Nothing is worse than death. Nothing is better than death. Death, eternal oblivion, is something beyond our simple human minds' comprehension.