People can argue that death is not evil for we will just slip out of existence and feel nothing then. But it and this argument are evil for it is better to exist. People may say that life would be boring if you lived too long and that they are happy enough to go at the age of eighty or ninety. But maybe that is why we have such imperfect memories. We remember only a little of the past and that prevents boredom and also every event is unique so there is no room for boredom.
It seems there is nothing wrong with a person not being bothered about death for it is painless and inevitable. It seems that before birth you did not exist and it did not bother you so why should death, the same thing, bother you? Believers reply, “But we had to have a beginning and there is no logical reason why we need to have an end. We could live on forever in another world. When we came into existence we gained, but when we lose that existence we fail and lose. So the argument is wrong for ceasing to exist is by no means as nice as not existing before you exist. The failure of the argument proves beyond doubt that humanism and atheism have to have the doctrine of life after death if they are to make people happy and to expand. They have no other argument that can help them. If death is evil it should bother us. Evil is supposed to bother us. People say it did not bother them that they never existed before birth and so it will not bother them if they cease to exist at death. But they gained existence after non-existence but death is losing the existence you have gained if it is the end. It has to bother you. If you have a cruel debilitating disease you will undergo needless emotional pain if you think death is the only thing you have to look forward to for we are sensuous creatures though you will consider it a blessing in many ways. “
That reply insults terminally ill people in hospices and other places who are so happy though death is round the corner. Their lives are more precious to them than ever because death is near and they appreciate the love they get ten times more than a healthy person would. We can train ourselves not to fear death and we should for dreading it is not going to help us one little bit.