Posted: Mar 15, 2014 3:39 am
surreptitious57 wrote:But quality of life is superior to quantity of life and in cases where the former is significantly reduced death is far more preferable. Death is also inevitable so denying it is just wishful thinking of the highest order. And also you were dead before you were born and had no negative memories of that so why be reluctant to experience it again ?
You might want to re-read the "Death" section of the document. I make all of these points in that section.
surreptitious57 wrote:And what exactly is there to be afraid of in spending the rest of eternity in a state of blissful non consciousness anyway ? I am looking very much forward to it myself. An existence free of all pain and suffering for all of time is most definitely not one to be fearful of now
In the "Death" section of the document, I also argue that fearing death is irrational. However, at least according to afterlife skepticism (see page 2), the state of being dead is not "existence"; it is non-existence. Therefore, it cannot be "blissful".