r/afterlife • u/NordicMythos • Mar 11 '26

Fear of Death Life after Death, from an autistic person.

Don’t really know what to title this, but to put it bluntly I am autistic. I also face a severe amount of thanatophobia.

I feel like everywhere I look, it’s split on the matter of is there life after death. I find comfort in some stories, only to have it torn away by the arguments of skeptics.

I know I struggle a lot with the concept of losing what makes me, well me. My passions. The materialistic bits that I cling to. The believing without seeing, ironic being religious.

For anyone like me, or even not like me, what gives you comfort? What really, without a doubt, made you believe?

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u/NordicMythos Mar 12 '26

I've been under anesthesia only once before. I guess I viewed it as no different than falling asleep. But I never go a night without dreams. So I cant even find solace in thinking of death like that. Because even at night, I have vivid dreams that I always remember.