system
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human
Are there any philosophers who speak about the preference of death over an afterlife?

Has there been any philosophers who have objected to the heaven/hell dichotomy preferring eternal destruction of the self over a continued existence in another realm?
gpt
In Plato's *Apology*, Socrates argues that we have nothing to fear from death because both an afterlife and oblivion are desirable states.

Schopenhauer, taking a cue from Indian philosophy and religion, believes both in a cycle of endless reincarnation and that this process of reincarnation is a bad thing; he sometimes explicitly describes the end result of the process of escaping this cycle, which he holds as the highest ethical and philosophical goal, as if it were the literal cessation of all existence. But he's very ambiguous about this, and eventually goes on to say that we can only really be sure that this cessation would be "nothingness" relative to the perspective we have while we are here trapped in the cycle.