The Fear of Dying Before You Become Yourself

valdork59

The blog post is not just beige— it's filled with em dashes, and here's why that matters.

xandrius

> People say they're afraid of death, but often what they really mean is dying as the wrong person. Nope, pretty sure it's almost always a mix of a) not knowing what (if anything) is after, b) the way one achieves the state of "being dead", c) high possibility of own consciousness ceasing to exist and d) leaving someone behind. I don't really care if I'm meant to become the next Luke Skywalker or the pope, I would live just fine if I didn't have to die for something I have no control over and just remain me.

deadbabe

Humanity will someday solve death: make everything lifeless by default. No more death.

gitowiec

I like this article, for me it hits the point. I'm tumbling through live, I barely make choices

nicbou

This blog became really active in 2025. I struggle to believe it's written by a human.

jjulius

There is no self.

__s

I've experienced the opposite: wishing I were dead so life wouldn't go on with me falling into just another glum existence. That at the emotionally present moment I snapshot it, preventing inevitable dullness that time moves on Unfortunately here I am, life moves on, now I'm just wasting away on HN

mountainb

This is why, here at GloboCorp, we kill an Excel monkey at the office right after the daily standup. The open office plan makes it so that the whole team hears the screams (and some lucky team members catch a little splatter). Death creates some unexpected synergies. At GloboCorp, our employees learn that death is inexorable. Does one fear the rising of the sun? No. One simply accepts that the sun will rise. So too do our valued team members at GloboCorp simply accept that they will be checking functions until they are reduced during a daily teambuilding exercise. No one at GloboCorp asks themselves if they will live the rest of their lives as Excel monkeys, because we answer that question for them every day. The answer is Yes, you will fill out the little cells, and then we will kill you. We provide effective solutions to the problem of being. We transform existential dread into acceptance and peace and high performance.