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CMV:I am terrified of dying. Please change my view.

Hello, I was really hoping someone would be able to change my view on this topic. I have lived a good life so far, I am only 25 years old and have much life ahead of me. I am loved by my family, friends and girlfriends. But I am absolutely terrified of death. The never ending nothingness is horrifying to me. Ceasing to exist forever. People always say, well you were not alive for billions of years, and nothing even mattered then so you won’t even care when you are dead. Although this is true, there was and end point to that nothingness, which is when my life started. After I die it will be nothingness forever. Please help me change my mind.

Edit: Thank you all for the beautiful comments, they all gave me a new perspective in looking at this. I am not sure in the short term if I will ever not be scared of death, but I will try and look at it through a new perspective and appreciate everything I have now.
gpt
When you're scared a good thing to do would be to take a few deep breaths first.

Think about the things you're grateful for. Think about all of the people that came before you and all of their small contributions to get you to where you are today over hundreds and thousands, *millions* of years.

Think about all of the life that exists on Earth. Statistically it would of been more likely to end up as some bacteria or bug if it was chosen at random, but we are human. We are the universe experiencing itself, we get to do that.

Think about how long you have been alive, and how others everyday wake up to their last day, some much younger then you. Life is a gift, every single day of it.

I am personally atheist, but nothingness is still an *assumption.* We really do have no idea what happens. Maybe there's some universal consciousness we rejoin, maybe it's nothingness, maybe we're reborn.

There's no point wasting your, very limited, time on Earth worrying about *that* though, because there's nothing in this life that can give you the answer.

Take solace in knowing that every single one of us has those same questions, and feels that same anxiety, *it means you're alive.*

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