There is a kind of salience to the negativity inherent in death, with its corresponding dissolution of the self and perhaps even of experience per se. This is by far the predominant point of gravity in discourse around nothingness, but the existential problem at the heart of mortality should not be restricted to physical death. Continue reading Do We Fear Death, or Annihilation?
From July 2022 onward, I am offering free coaching sessions with a special emphasis upon the most fundamental of concerns in life: meaning, freedom, death, and much more. Continue reading Coaching Session with an Existential Edge
It is at once petrifying and liberating—life flashing before one’s eyes. Suddenly, what was a matter of quotidian gravity becomes grave no more, but frivolous instead; and life steers into more purposive directions as if, paradoxically, of its own accord. Continue reading Near-Death Lucidity
Realizing that we are going to die, and might do so at any given moment, we are urged to stop daydreaming and seize the day as well as our dreams. Stop beating around the bush, Palahniuk violently calls upon us, and do something—now. Continue reading Fight Club, Death and Existential Guilt
Threatened by non-being, both in death and in nullified potential, human beings are forced to make something of their lives. In the words of Paul Tillich, they need the courage to be. Continue reading Not Being Anything
Our existential positionality toward death is defined not only by the prospect of dying, manifest in dread, but also by what has already died, experienced through grief. Without mourning, we fail to recognize the full consequences of mortality. Continue reading The Mourning in Memento Mori
How the deceased return to us in dreams! Continue reading Aphorism on Being Dead
The news puzzled me. News had always puzzled me, but this news had a particular way of escaping my comprehension. Somewhere amidst this carnival of sterility, pathological objectivity, dismembered lumps of information being thrown at me at an incredible speed, I was supposed to find a logic. Continue reading A Morbid Logic
so goddamn tired of the heat and the light and lucidity and the whatsitcalled Continue reading the reasoning of panic
How does it follow from the materialistic point of view that the void awaits after death? This essay argues against the widespread belief in death being the end of it. Continue reading Materialism and the Afterlife
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