>>13416735nobody wants to die, it is a literal root instinct of all life, alongside reproduction. it is the reason that life propagates, because structures that do not want to die, have a will to survival, and tend to reproduce will grow in number
the human reasoning element, whatever it is, has given us a solid conception of death and what it really means in relation to our subjective lives. it is certainly scary, and perhaps it would be better if we only had an inchoate and primal fear of death and not the existential terror that seems exclusive to our species. but that is not the human condition
there isn't any real consolation for the fact that we will all die. if there was, then it would be the biggest religion on planet earth. it's a banal truth at this point that life is just distracting yourself from death, but to subscribe to that idea completely is missing a lot of nuance, i think
there's a strong, universal sense that a powerful affirmation of life lurks somewhere. whatever it is, it should be obvious that it is relative largely to subjective experience. it's the thing you feel when you see a sunrise or sunset, when you experience a great work of art, when you weather some terrible or great emotion, or when you accomplish something you're proud of
but these things have to all be framed in the transience of life. nihilism looms around every corner with ever-nearing death as its source, and becomes the great pitfall of all structure you erect in order to enjoy life. whatever life-affirmation, because of this, must necessarily require great personal strength in order to enjoy
i guess what i'm trying to say is that there are a lot of avenues to explore before letting yourself succumb to absolute dread. but you probably aren't going to find ones that directly grapple with the problem of death, transience, and nihilism on /sci/. i would recommend you start reading some philosophy. start with the basic bitch existentialists, for example. good luck
