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[Urist Imiknorris]

Just throwing in my opinion.

Life's kind of like Dwarf Fortress. There is no win condition, and death is inevitable. The fun comes from accepting that limitation and playing anyway. People aspire to greatness because they want to essentially become Boatmurdered. They know that they will die, and they attempt to live on through their work. Think of death not as the end, but as a turning point - the point where you can no longer actively participate in making yourself known. This is the basis of human ambition; an attempt to cheat death. It's about as successful as attempts to cheat death can possibly get.

Also, if you die, why would you care what you did in life? You're dead.

[Red Fortune]

Why does the transition into death make you so afraid? It's a natural process that's destined to happen, and afterwards, there's no regretting it or agonizing over it, doesn't the thought of transitioning to eternal sleep comfort you?

[Tarran]

Why does the transition into death make you so afraid? It's a natural process that's destined to happen, and afterwards, there's no regretting it or agonizing over it, doesn't the thought of transitioning to eternal sleep comfort you?

We discussed it a while ago, read over my arguments with him, and see if you can find the reason.

[Red Fortune]

We discussed it a while ago, read over my arguments with him, and see if you can find the reason.

  Something tells me something else is affecting the way he thinks about this, it doesn't seem to add up...

[Kebooo]

Why does the transition into death make you so afraid? It's a natural process that's destined to happen, and afterwards, there's no regretting it or agonizing over it, doesn't the thought of transitioning to eternal sleep comfort you?

Because every moment of my life I care to be alive, or else I wouldn't care about dying right now.  I think everyone in this topic has successfully found ways to delude themselves about death while I have not (I wish I could).  For example, I am almost certain everyone in here would oppose someone walking in and shooting them in the head.  They'd probably say it's wrong, or they don't want it to happen.  They wouldn't just accept it.  But murder and killing are also parts of nature.  Since you are destined for death, and you can't regret or agonize over it, why care?  Wouldn't that murder comfort you?  A million years from now, it's no different than if you lived to 75 and died.  There's no reason for me to enjoy something because it's natural or inevitable.  Rape and killing are part of nature, too.  If it was inevitable for an asteroid to hit and destroy the earth, I think we'd all fear seeing it coming.

Also, why would eternal sleep comfort me?  I enjoy being awake, not asleep.  I don't want to be in eternal non-existence.  To feel comforted by the thought of eternal sleep would suggest there is some great burden to being alive and awake.

[Os Q]

I love sleep and dreams (even nightmares, see below) and I find them to be the favorite part of my life, but maybe that shows that my life doesn't have much going on in it.

I have a copy of Donald Tyson's Necronomicon, which he wrote as basically "Abdul Al-Hazred's" guide to the dark ages middle east and the Cthulhu mythos. It's written to be blasphemous, so there's bits like "There's no purpose in birth, no salvation of the soul in life, and no reward after death."
There is a very useful bit of advice, in the story of a demon that kills its victims by wearing them down with nightmares.

The advice is: let it amuse you, be entertained by efforts and it will sulk away in frustration. (I really wish I had the book on me, cause it sounds much cooler as the evil necromancer wrote it.)