Hoping to survive might be nothing but a refusal to accept our condition.

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Feuerbach, Heidegger

The hope of another life arises at the sharpest point of the fear of ending: it consoles exactly where death hurts, which should arouse suspicion.
Yet nothing in experience confirms this survival: neither the life sciences nor observation show a person without their body. The hope fills a desire, it does not establish a fact.
Worse, it can turn us away from the only life we have: by deferring what matters to an uncertain beyond, we risk missing the here and now, the only time given to us.

Therefore Therefore immortalist hope might be not a truth about death, but a way of not facing it.

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