keestie t1_j1j01sa wrote
Even if every doomsday scenario you've listed eventually comes true exactly as you described, you're creating your own internal doomsday *right now*, and that is something you have control over. Not perfect control, but some. Don't give in. You have a choice to give in or not; don't. Don't die until you're actually dead.
platitood t1_j1jqbnj wrote
Even if none of them come true, YOU are going to die. People avoid that and don’t come to terms with it. I feel like projecting your angst onto the species is just another way of avoiding looking at your own mortality.
Beldarius t1_j1lsrwv wrote
This is why I enjoy Astrid Lindgren's fairytales so much. Brothers Lionheart features death in a major way, and tries to portray it as a perfectly normal thing that shouldn't be feared (particularly powerful at the end where >!the protagonist jumps off a cliff with his dying brother on his back, and realizes they're going to enter a second afterlife... and he's just excited, yelling "Yes, Jonathan, I can see the light!"!<).
There's also a Finnish fairytale called "The Prince of Shadowland" where the big brother of a boy dies; the boy can't accept it, finds a strange book and after opening it, suddenly finds himself in Shadowland where his brother is the prince. It turns out at the end Shadowland is the afterlife, and the brother sends the boy back to the real world; yet the boy, after his adventure, has matured and accepted the reality his brother is gone. His reaction is basically "I'll join him there one day, but not now... I still have my own life left to live.".
rfc2549-withQOS t1_j1mgvxx wrote
Lindgren was.. wow. Scarily well done books, and always some ideas offered, not pushed.
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