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This hasn't bothered me at all for the past four years. Maybe I convinced myself that there's more after death. But I was thinking in the shower today. Your brain is what gives you consciousness, and when you die, it stops working. That's pretty much a guarantee in my mind that your stream of life ends once you die, which means that, for an infinite amount of time, the universe goes on without you anywhere in it.
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>>18601540
I came to similar realization a few years ago. I coped with it by deciding - immediately - not to waste any more time. If I wanted to do or accomplish something, I took steps to make it happen. I stopped putting things off until some hazy date in the future. I started actively working to make the people around me happy and do good work that actively made a difference in the world, even if it was a small one. I don't need to be the best at anything, but I wanted to make sure that the life I look back on when I'm at the end of it is fun, filled with good people and things I can be proud of.
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>>18601540
It's a matter of values really. While it's true that you as a person may vanish with time, your bloodline, actions or ideas might survive countless generations. In a way, that means there's a way to become immortal, however not in the form most would like it to be. So if you ever have a fit of nihilism, just remember that what you do in life might ripple and affect countless of other lives for ages to come.
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