Does fear of oblivion make you believe in life after death?

Just the fear will do

Fear of Hell?
I can't speak for everyone but eternal life in heaven sounds both boring and creepy too.

“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”

(i just had to, couldn't help it)

No. Fear shouldn't make you believe in fairy tales. It may be considered normal when you're a child but once you grow older you should learn to accept oblivion.

Fear, alone, shouldn't make you believe in life after death.

I hope there's multiple checkpoints after death, so you can go back to see how it could have been different.

Maybe it's not just fear of being alone. Knowing you won't see family and friends ever again can be disheartening too.

That won't be much of a problem once you're dead though, will it?

“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”

(i just had to, couldn't help it)

Initially when I first reflected on the existence of God when I was young. After a while you become more concerned with what's true than with what comforts. I guess you get less sensitive to the fear the more you think about it. Also, if atheism was true I'd just follow the rule to 'eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die'.



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I didn't think of it that way, but it was more or less how I became less fearful of the unknown.

That final sentence though
Enjoy life and make the most of it (_{without wasting it away}).

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