Dezz!

Today, the topic will be death!

No, not in an emo way, shut up!

Thing is, I'm a big fan of finding shit out about the world, and death therefore fascinates me because we can know everything there is to know about it except what it's like.

Of course, the crux is that it is like nothing, in a very literal way, and that's very hard to visualize.

It's easy to imagine death as simply being blackness for all eternity, but that doesn't really cut the mustard for me. See, in order for there to be blackness, there'd have to be a consciousness to perceive it. Black, after all, is simply the result of an object absorbing most visible light, it's not an actual concept of nothingness.

But how do you imagine total oblivion? You're not seeing or hearing, you're just simply not at all. Everything just ceases. Me, I don't really fear that; I rather feel comforted by it. The concept of some kind of hell where anyone who doesn't worship the correct omnipotent cretin end up is far more frightening to me, if only because I'm unable to believe in a god in the first place!

Oblivion, on the other hand, has a sort of beautiful finality to it. You'll cease to be entirely, you won't feel pain or anguish, you won't feel boredom or fear. Best of all, you won't know that you're dead, and you'll certainly not miss being alive. You simply won't be, at all. You'll go from a state of being to a state of not being, which is exactly the state that you started out with before you were conceived.

It's great, isn't it? You get to experience a, hopefully, happy and fullfilling life, and when it's over you won't have to go all nostalgic about it because you'll be stone dead!