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Originally posted by Gemini
Butttt it appears that some that might express atheism on one hand are concerned about dying on the other... why worry? ;-)
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Not wanting to die doesn't necessarily mean thinking about what comes after death. You should realize that choosing to take or not to take risks is something you decide while alive. So, you are in effect making a choice: many more years to live and to fulfil the things I wanted to do with my life or risk only living for two more days (or whatever).
If your perspective is 100 years from now (when you are dead) it doesn't make a difference... fairly obvious since you don't have a perspective, you're dead. But your perspective is based in the present.
If you value your life (e.g. you experience life as something mostly positive), the longer life is most definitely the preferable option.
Your reasoning is flawed in 2 ways:
- You take an "after the fact" perspective, while the actual perspective is from the present.
- You mistake "not living" for "being dead". Atheists who don't want to die don't "fear being dead", they prefer living over "not living" (nothing) from their present perspective.