system
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human
Should we be afraid of death?

Epicurus said: Death is the eradication of senses. Without our senses, we can't feel, so it would be stupid to be afraid of death according to him. I know it is imperative and natural for humans to die, and when someone dies we think ''he is in a better place now''. But we don't know what comes after death at all, so how can we say that? How can we not be afraid of death if it isn't something we understand? Why do we have a survival instinct? Are we afraid of suffering? of the unknown? or dying?
gpt
mostly going off heidegger here - i think that 'anxiety' is a better word to describe the way we fundamentally orient ourselves towards death. the uncanny thing about death is its incommensurability with our way of being. we always orient ourselves temporally towards the world, but death apparently represents the impossibility of a future to project into, while simultaneously being unavoidably in our future. so, we encounter a deep uncertainty about our basic existential constitution in the very way we always already orient ourselves towards the world; this seems like a good candidate for 'anxiety,' as heidegger calls it.