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smnplktoday at 2:14 AM3 repliesview on HN

> And the afterlife also sucks apparently (although I don't personally believe in an afterlife).

Why don't you believe in the experience after dying ?


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BLKNSLVRtoday at 2:37 AM

I'm going to say it will be similar to the experience prior to birth / conception, ie. we were nothing, and to nothing we shall return.

It's a scary feeling if you can grasp it. Grasping non-existence from within existence is difficult, I've consciously tried to do it and succeeded a couple of times, but it's fleeting and both times it affected my breathing and heart rate in a similar way to fear or panic or pain.

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freetime2today at 2:20 AM

I think that once the power supply to my brain shuts down, that's likely the end of my conscious experience.

queenkjuultoday at 5:31 AM

Dead brains don't feel