The void is fine, its actually preferable to the other stated alternatives. I fear the pain on my way there, and the pain my absence may bring to those I care for

its called a "nothingness void" for a reason

Live is a drug, once you try it, you cant have enough

I wasn't aware of the abyss before being born. Now that I'm alive, I can feel a certain way about it.

A common saying on Roman tombs/graves:

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo; often abbreviated as NFFSNNC.

It means, ‘I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.’

I'm not afraid of death. I'm afraid of dying. Once you're dead it's easy.

Reminds me of the Mark Twain quote: "Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."

Or as I explained to the head of my church when I was 19 and he asked me how I could not fear death if I did not believe in an afterlife: "I'm not scared of the idea of eternal nothingness after I die. Nothing can't be scary, because that's something, and then it wouldn't be nothing."

I'm not afraid of death, I'm in love with life.

being dead is fine

it's the dying part that'll kill ya

Well no, I haven't experienced it. Experiencing something is only possible with some kind of sensory organ - of which I had none before I developed them in this life. Not to mention any data "I" may have gathered back then was thoroughly erased so it doesn't affect this life in any way. Which means the void might actually be endless torture and I'd have no way of knowing.

Edit: just to be clear, I'm an atheist, I don't believe in rebirth or afterlife or souls or any such things. Just arguing for argument's sake with the "you've experienced it" part that I find unconvincing :)

If nonexistence was temporary before birth, surely it won't be temporary after birth

Yeah it'll be a hella long time before your mind molecules come together again, sure

But you won't feel how long it was. You'll just be born again with a new and different existence

Time goes to infinity, which means that there is a 100% chance of it happening again in any given amount of time

Because now I know the difference and... I don't want to go.

I'm afraid I'll have to go through all this shit again.

The fear of death is more than the fear of experiencing death. Its also about the fears of not accomplishing enough, the fear of leaving loved ones alone and many more things.

Cool bug fact’s what? What does the cool bug fact own?? YOU CANT LEAVE US HANGING!

Because I don't remember experiencing the nothingless void... But if I go by the feelings I have when I think about it which is dread it must have been awful

I'm not afraid of being dead, it's the actual dying that's terrifying.

Its not the fear. Its the lack of gooning.

I love this about bugs.

The void is not frightening, it's comfy and warm. I go there every night.

Death is not frightening, it is only a moment.

What is truly terrifying, Cool bug, is eternity.

Alan Watts made a few points like this. Very interesting.

Facts does not need an apostrophe as it is neither possessing anything nor contracting with anything

After bug is the same as before bug.

You have already experienced the loss of bug. Do not fear the absence of bug.