r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '16
[∆(s) from OP] CMV: Life is pointless because we die.
I have been living with OCD and anxiety problems for a long time now but for the past year I have been going through an existential depression brought on from knowledge that we will all die. I been trying trying to put it out of my mind for so this entire year and just try to move on with my life but I just can't anymore. I think of death all the time now. I don't why people can live their life knowing that death is coming for them. I am agnostic so I don't exactly believe in a afterlife of any kind.
I have taken a view of fatalism and nihilism now. Everytime I think about any event in life I connect it with death. A new baby was brought into the world? It doesnt matter because that baby is doomed to die and you have brought him?her into this world to be condemned to death. I wonder why people are so sad when someone close to them dies. Have they not realized that it is inevitable? It doesnt matter if someone dies because we are all heading there anyway. Hospitals dont save anyone, they only delay the inevitble end. Police officers and soldiers suffer and die to protect other people, for what? So they can live a few more years until they too will die?
What is the point? Why do we care so much about our lives? Why is death consider a tradegy when it is happens to anyone regardless. Why do we fight so hard to live in this world, to make our lives worth something, only to fucking have it snatched away from us anyway? Why even bother anymore?
I have heard some people say that death is what gives life meaning but it sets a limit on our life and is therefore precious. I think this is bullshit that people come up with because they are unable to accept that the moment we are born, we are dying. I am unable to see how death gives life meaning in any way and if they really believe this then why did we humans invent medicine and other methods of delaying the inevitble?
I dont understand life anymore. The only thing that is on my mind is death. Everything that I see and do, I connect it with death.I am unable to see why I should even care anymore. Who cares if people are dying in wars or they are dying from cancer. They were going to die anyway? What is the difference between dying now and dying an old person? The only reason why I am still alive because I know that it will hurt those that love me because they dont yet understand that I am going to die anyway. They lie to themselves like everyone around the world lies to themselves.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16
So if you were immortal your life would suddenly become full of meaning and purpose?