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[Rose]

Aside from the usual survival instincts, I don't have any particular fear of death. While it would be nice to leave behind some sort of legacy, once I'm gone, it won't really matter, will it?

[Loud Whispers]

Aside from the usual survival instincts, I don't have any particular fear of death. While it would be nice to leave behind some sort of legacy, once I'm gone, it won't really matter, will it?

A legacy is a selfless parting wish for those with life left to live, so it does matter in many ways to leave something worth living with.

[Rose]

Well, it doesn't matter for me. Because I'll be dead.

But yes, it does matter for those I leave behind.

I have a personal life philosophy that everyone should endeavor to make the world a better place to live in for whoever comes after them. If I die having done that, then I will be happy.

[PanH]

then I will be happy.

No. You will be dead 

[Rose]

I will be happy for a brief moment in time before my death.

[Facekillz058]

Or you'll be like,
"Oh fuck I'm dying help me."

[LordSlowpoke]

Or you'll be like,
"Oh fuck I'm dying help me."

i dunno, some have described death as an overall semi-pleasant experience other than all the cold and loss of sense of self

but then most of these have died of horribly pain-inducing illnesses so it might have come as a relief. i know nothing.

[alway]

Death isn't scary, I've been dead for over 13.7 billion years, and it hasn't hurt me any.

However, death is a big disappointment. Death means I will miss all the cool stuff that keeps happening afterwards; humanity spreading life out into the cosmos, alien intelligences whose evolutionary past makes them more incomprehensible than a creature from Lovecraft, even just basic changes in society and the way we live. I want to learn about those things and how they happen. And yet I can't any more than I can follow the events in the life of one particular dinosaur. Sure, I'll be able to see some damn cool things in my lifetime; the real start of human spaceflight and colonization efforts, probably the creation of the first Strong AI... but I won't be able to see the rest of this grand story. And just when it was getting really good, too!

[Dutchling]

Death isn't scary, I've been dead for over 13.7 billion years, and it hasn't hurt me any.

However, death is a big disappointment. Death means I will miss all the cool stuff that keeps happening afterwards; humanity spreading life out into the cosmos, alien intelligences whose evolutionary past makes them more incomprehensible than a creature from Lovecraft, even just basic changes in society and the way we live. I want to learn about those things and how they happen. And yet I can't any more than I can follow the events in the life of one particular dinosaur. Sure, I'll be able to see some damn cool things in my lifetime; the real start of human spaceflight and colonization efforts, probably the creation of the first Strong AI... but I won't be able to see the rest of this grand story. And just when it was getting really good, too!

That's exactly how I feel too :/

[Descan]

Sometimes I wonder if I was born in this period because humanity is just starting to get really good, and I'll live to see immortality.

Or if I manage to do something, like, really fucking awesome, so awesome that my mind and memories are copied to be used as teaching materials for my life in some weird fucking future school, and right now I'm actually some bored 15 year old future student studying for an exam, and when I die I'll get back those memories of that student.

[Graknorke]

Sometimes I wonder if I was born in this period because humanity is just starting to get really good, and I'll live to see immortality.

Or if I manage to do something, like, really fucking awesome, so awesome that my mind and memories are copied to be used as teaching materials for my life in some weird fucking future school, and right now I'm actually some bored 15 year old future student studying for an exam, and when I die I'll get back those memories of that student.

Wat.
You mean that this iteration of yourself is actually just the playback from some fancy brain-cassette player?

[Descan]

More or less, yes. I have no way to tell, and except the anthropic principle there's no real reason for me to be me, for me to see out of the eyes that I currently do, and not one of the other 100 billion humans who have ever lived.

[scrdest]

Death isn't scary, I've been dead for over 13.7 billion years, and it hasn't hurt me any.

However, death is a big disappointment. Death means I will miss all the cool stuff that keeps happening afterwards; humanity spreading life out into the cosmos, alien intelligences whose evolutionary past makes them more incomprehensible than a creature from Lovecraft, even just basic changes in society and the way we live. I want to learn about those things and how they happen. And yet I can't any more than I can follow the events in the life of one particular dinosaur. Sure, I'll be able to see some damn cool things in my lifetime; the real start of human spaceflight and colonization efforts, probably the creation of the first Strong AI... but I won't be able to see the rest of this grand story. And just when it was getting really good, too!

You weren't dead, you didn't exist at all. It's kinda like saying being robbed doesn't scare you - you didn't have money for 13.7 billion years either. Also, a gift of 5000$ might leave a CEO unfazed and a person living in poverty dancing in joy. It's the difference, not the state that matters.

[Graknorke]

More or less, yes. I have no way to tell, and except the anthropic principle there's no real reason for me to be me, for me to see out of the eyes that I currently do, and not one of the other 100 billion humans who have ever lived.

Only because you still insist that continuity is a thing

But for what it's worth, if your memories were immortalised in a recording, I think people would probably focus more on the bits relating to whatever important thing you did.

[Descan]

The only evidence I have of continuity is what I see with my own brain.

Thankfully, since continuity is entirely to do with the brain, that's all the evidence I really need!

Anyway, that's probably true, but for all I know this moment is just a memory encoded for the moments that people actually relive. When that time comes around, if ever, all I'll know about this moment is the memory I have of it. I won't be able to know if I actually lived it or if it was just encoded.