Quote Originally Posted by ermitonto
I'm not afraid of death, because if there really is nothing to experience after death, which I strongly suspect (to me it just doesn't make any more sense to say consciousness can outlive the brain than it does to say that heartbeat can outlive the heart), then I will have no emotions and will not be able to care about the fact that I'm dead. If there really is something after death, and all the evidence that suggests consciousness is the product of our mortal brains is nothing but an illusion, then it seems we are not meant to know what it is during our lifetimes, and any speculations about other dimensions and new lives is unsubstantiated wishful thinking.
Agreed, I still find it hard to grasp - it is just so hard to imagine not being able to imagine.