is anyone scared of leaving this world

[c=7700B2][i]like passing on and dying? as much as i'm christian and catholic and believe in an afterlife, i'm still scared of leaving this life, as shitty as this life gets, it's familiar, i know it, know my surroundings...on the otherside i don't know what may await.....plus, i'll probably die alone as my elderly parents won't survive me.[/i][/c]

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BlueSkyKing · M

My favorite Richard Dawkins quote from my favorite book. Way before his best seller.

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
― Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder