We all have thought about our death at some point in our lives. Regardless of whether we
want to admit it, the thought of our impending end causes fear and anxiety in us all. Today we
are going to discuss reasons why we shouldn't be afraid of death. But before we start, make
sure to subscribe to our channel if you are new here and press the bell icon for notifications.
Alright, the reason we shouldn't be afraid of death is because of the law of conservation
of energy. The first law of thermodynamics or the law of conservation of energy states that
in an isolated system, energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be converted
from one form of energy to another. This means that a system always has the same amount of energy
unless it's added from an external source. Now, this is all great, but how does that relate to us?
Well, we are all made up of elementary particles and atoms that give us mass.
In the early 20th century, Albert Einstein figured out that even mass is a form of energy.
This is called mass-energy equivalence. So, the amount of mass directly relates to the amount
of energy, as determined by the famous formula in physics: E=mc^2. Where E is the amount of energy
in an object or system, m is the mass of the object or system, and c is the speed of light,
roughly 3.0 x 10^8 m/s. So this means that ultimately all things in the universe, including
us, are all just a form of energy which can and will be converted into some other form of energy.
This conversion of energy is inevitable due to the second law of thermodynamics.
The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy, which is often thought of as
disorder or randomness of a system, will always increase within a closed system.
If we think about entropy as the probability of energy configurations which are equally likely,
we can see that energy configuration that is concentrated at a particular area has a lower
probability compared to energy configuration that is more spread out. So in general, because there
are more ways to have dispersed energy than concentrated energy, energy tends to spread
out until it is in a state of equilibrium. For example, a glass with ice cubes and a glass with
boiling water in a room will both approach room temperature overtime because the probability of
the boiling water getting even hotter and the ice cubes getting even colder is extremely low. This
is due to an enormous number of dispersed energy configurations as compared to the concentrated
energy configurations in this scenario. What this tells us is that higher entropy is always more
likely than lower entropy in a closed system. This means that the total entropy or disorder
of an isolated system can never decrease over time. Which is why Isolated or closed systems
spontaneously evolve towards thermodynamic equilibrium, the state with maximum entropy.
So, now that we know a little bit about the laws of thermodynamics,
we can talk about why death shouldn’t be a big deal. We are all bundles of concentrated energy
which will eventually disperse overtime due to the second law of thermodynamics.
However, thanks to the law of conservation of energy, death does not mean the end as long
as our universe is an isolated system capable of only converting energy from one form to another.
So, even in death we will still be alive as part of our universe. Now, this state of being may
not be the same as the conscious state that we experience in this current human form,
nonetheless, it will still be a state of being. Perhaps even better than this conscious state.
Now suppose that our universe is not an isolated system and receives energy
from some external source which ultimately provided us with this conscious experience.
Well then great, because this external source would be what many refer to as “God”.
This will provide us all with the opportunity to meet and be one with the creator again.
Therefore, either way, death is a win-win situation which is not to be feared.
Another reason why we shouldn’t fear death is rather a philosophical one. The fear we
have of death often comes from our fear of the unknown. But what if we already knew what it's
like to be dead? Consider the 13.77 billion years before any of us existed. What was it
like then? No one really knows anything about it except for the fact that none of us were alive.
To our conscious state of being, the feeling of being dead or not existing
felt like absolutely nothing. It wasn’t the nothing we usually think of nothing to be, but a
very different kind of nothing that our conscious selves cannot even begin to comprehend or recall.
This sort of non-existence simply doesn’t require a conscious state to be understood.
It is completely independent of the limitations of conscious thought
and extends far beyond the conscious reality.
So, the state of not existing can be considered as equivalent to ceasing to exist. This means
that we have all experienced death before, it should be nothing new or scary for us the second
time around. Before any of us existed, we were perfectly fine being in that state of nothingness,
perhaps even more than being in this state of consciousness. So it’s not really death that is
scary, it is the conscious thought of death that is scary which can be overcome through reasoning.
Since we manifested out of the universe into this conscious state of being for a
limited amount of time, we should try and make the most of it while we can.
Think of this time as a vacation from our state of non-existence, where things are as they are, and
do not waste time worrying about returning to that state as it will accomplish nothing but ruin the
experience of this vacation as a conscious being. We were given this rare opportunity to experience
nature perceiving itself, so if we dwell on the fact that we will lose this experience one day,
it will actually hinder our ability to enjoy anything on our time here. So make the most
of this time and enjoy this extremely rare opportunity given as a gift from the Universe.
Now, if some of us still worry about death, we should think of it like this.
Death is not a special phenomenon for any particular individual. There have been millions
before us that have faced death, and there will be millions after us that will face death.
Therefore, there is nothing special about any of us facing death. We are all in this together.
Whatever happens to one person in death will also happen to everyone else that has existed,
is existing or will exist. So we can all just relax and live life to the fullest helping each
other and being the best that we can be in our limited time in this conscious reality.
There you have it! These were some of the reasons that made sense to us
on why we shouldn’t be afraid of death. What are some of your thoughts on this topic?
Comment down below and let us know! Also, be sure to subscribe to our channel and hit
like if you found this video interesting. Until then, we’ll see you in the next one!