People who enjoy breaking down and hurting other people.
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Any disease that causes you to slowly go mad. Things like fatal insomnia or rabies.
the worst one is FFI, which you dont sleep til you die. and there other variants of CJVD, thats just as strange. prions are also found in FUNGI, although it does the opposite rather than a disease state, its an evolutionary benefit rather than a disease. also the "so called protocol to put someone in a coma" on treating rabies, is largely been criticized and debunked as a various dangerous procedur, they could not replicate the same effect.
Burying my kids.
The sun moving the other way through the sky
Dick spiders.
More seriously: body parasites of any kind.
Abuse of the psych. bug that leads to faschism by smart evil people that know exactly what they are doing and somehow make it work stable for centuries.
Dying painfully
Rape and murder always top this kind of conversation. The other day i was thinking about japanese occupation and man, that shit must've been scariest shit for all the victim involved.
I just finished a re-listen of Dan Carlin’s “Supernova in the East, which is like 30 hours covering everything Japan did during the great wars. It was insanity.
Death is the only correct answer. We've been singularly focused on avoiding it since we were single-cellular. Any other fear presented here represents a "what if" hypothesis about what's on the other side of it.
How would a society of immortal beings work, though, considering the already existing inequalities and rampant amoral antisocial nature of those currently in power? We kinda just have to make peace with death, right? I'm religious, and what I'm gonna say here might sound a tad heretical, but one life does feel like "enough" (of a gift, if you're religious) and I don't see a working alternative... but perhaps I'm not creative enough? 🤷
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A failed democracy.
pure void - just a void, not death, a void
Trapped in space but you just ate a quadrillion calorie burrito so you have to exist floating in space forever and ever and ever and ever.
Slightly better than just a void because you have the views, but slightly worse because you don't know what to expect: what if I get sucked up into a black hole?
Nothing, void, doesnt feel scared.
Unless it did.
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I mean, God judging that I was a "problematic child" and overall a bad person and sending me to Hell, I guess. 🙃
But, without talking about my religious beliefs, I'm afraid of doing something awful that I cannot fix or take back, in a moment of heightened emotion and lack of foresight, and hating myself forever for it. It's the reason I stopped getting into random fights, after all. In the end, when you die, you die, there's no more time for regrets, but if you kill then you have to live with yourself being a murderer, right? And I'm too self-aware to ignore it, and to see that if I ever started taking drugs to turn my brain and heart off I evidently have a problem and remembering the source of that problem would put me back to square one...
Homeless in the gutter on a cold night, shivering so hard it hurts like needles, wondering hoping to find the threshold of death in the hopeless misery of a lost battle of life in a dystopian world with no ethics or morality; surrounded by people that treat animals orders of magnitude better than me; completely indifferent and uncaring about my last breaths and thoughts as I pass alone in the freezing cold.
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Elephant shit, because it is so much.
What I'm living with right now.