"'Immortality Is A Curse' | Castle Super Beast Clips"

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Even ignoring the arguments for and against immortality that they discuss here, just the whole thing about death, in and of itself, being some terrible/wonderful thing to be avoided/embraced... for me it's like, well... did it "trouble" "me" for the billions of years that the universe existed before I was conceived/born/overcame infant amnesia during which I didn't exist and/or wasn't truly aware of my own existence? No? Well, then why should it "trouble" "me" for the unfathomably large amount[1] of time that I won't exist after I die (assuming, like I do, that afterlife/reincarnation/being a ghost/whatever isn't a thing[EDIT][2][/EDIT])? This is because there won't be a "me" to be "troubled" after I die, any more than there was a "me" to be "troubled" before I was conceived or whatever. I mean, yeah, sure, I want to live as long as possible, but being dead doesn't seem too awful a thing. Dying sucks, don't get me wrong. But being dead? Maybe not so much.

Not sure if this particular subject is something about which I've ever posted publicly before. It feels like I may have, but maybe not. If I did, though, I'm pretty sure it wasn't here in this Dreamwidth/former LiveJournal thing, as I was unable to find it here, since I would have linked back to it, if I had. Didn't look all that hard, mind you, but still. I know that I've written about it at least once in my pencil-and-paper journal, though.

(EDIT 2) Oh, it turns out that I actually did write about this before. It was just in a... more unusual place than I was expecting or looking for. (/EDIT 2)

[1] - Yes, I got distracted for a while, again.

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[2] - And, honestly, I'm more... concerned/upset/scared by the possibility of one or more of those being the actual reality of the situation than I am about the more likely concept of simple non-existence/oblivion/whatever you want to call it.

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