To die without regret
When being afraid to die, what are you really afraid of?
Of losing your friends, family and acquaintances? Or of losing the enjoyments of life – for instance the pleasure of eating, having intercourse, of winning contests?
All of these are intrinsic to your humanness – if there is a core inside you which will live on, it is natural for this core not to need, in fact not to care about all of these things.
Consider:
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You need food to fuel your body – thus it is deemed pleasant
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You need to have sex so the human race continues existing – thus it was made pleasant
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You need a social network to survive – thus it is deemed important to have friends.
Looking beyond human reasons to an inner core is not always easy, but it can make this very existence more pleasurable – enough is enough.
