Alex O'Connor
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
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The self persists.
The self is eternal.
It's another sort of huge theme of the Hindu scriptures.
And so to hear you describe death as unnatural is kind of interesting because these people would say that's because it's not natural, because your true nature is eternal.
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And what you're calling yourself is actually unnatural.
And that's the thing that will come to an end.
So some people might answer that.
For me, like death is terrifying.
It can be terrifying for two reasons.
One is that you think it's lights off and everything comes to an end.
The other is that you think there is something after death and it's bad.
People are genuinely terrified of concepts of hell and divine torment for the behaviors that they engaged in while they were alive.
And a lot of that comes from religious upbringings, in particular doctrines about the nature of hell, which I think are not very biblical, to say the least.
But there's sort of two flavors of fear there.
On the hell stuff, it requires essentially a metaphysical investigation into the nature of God and whether that God would allow such suffering for finite crimes.
But with the lights off kind of thing, which I think more people are kind of freaked out by, some people say, oh, but it's like before I was born.
I was dead for thousands of years before I was born and it never bothered me.
That helps some people because it at least makes you realize that you're not going to experience it if the lights really go off.
And Epicurus famously said, when is death bad?
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