Nonexistance
| Published on Creepypasta.com | September 2008 |
|---|---|
| Length | 241 words · about 1 minute to read |
| Story level | Micro |
| Reader rating | 6.3/10 from 193 votes |
| Category | Beings and Entities |
Do you ever wonder how scary death is? Think about it; it’s the one thing that we truly know absolutely nothing about. Some people may cite religious beliefs of an afterlife and others might claim they just focus on life, but it’s really something that is totally and utterly foreign to us. And what if the religious people are wrong? What if death really is nonexistence… that it’s simply over once the brain dies? Terrifying, huh? Of course, the reasoning goes that you won’t notice it, since you won’t exist.
But… Let’s say a certain someone could expose you to nonexistence. Let’s say this person could actually let you experience the state of not existing and more importantly, let you remember it. He’d probably be able to get you to agree to anything in order to avoid that fate. Tangentially, for certain people near death, their brain activity sometimes ceases completely for about three seconds and then returns, only to shortly die in a more conventional fashion.
As another aside, many hospital orderlies have noticed a man wearing a suit that they have never seen in any catalog or on any person before. Interestingly enough, when you ask them about the suit they will struggle for a moment, then reply that it’s hard to describe, but they are sure they haven’t seen it before. Ask them about the man however, and they will freeze up, spasm violently and reply, “What man?”
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I sorta like this one.The man in an unusual-looking otherworldly outfit is cool.However, my opinion is we definitely do have some other type of existence waiting for us when we die.In the middle ages there was a man who was very into learning all he could on the afterlife.So much that he used his own death for an experiment! He had someone waiting by the guillotine to count how many times he blinked his eyes after his head was chopped off.He blinked 15 times if I remember right.I can’t remember how many minutes it came out to be…That guy was awesome!
Also, doctors in our era were creeped out when patients that died had regular “I am now dead” brain activity , as was usual, but a few minutes later their brain waves registered as someone who was quote “awake and talking”.I saw this on a documentary about life after death.I’ve been reading and watching all I can on this subject since I lost someone, I guess wanting to know where he went.
Am I the only one who thinks not existing would actually be very relaxing? I mean, you wouldn’t be trapped in your fleshy form, your mind wouldn’t be cluttered with thoughts, and you’d simple cease to exist. I think that’s fitting for death.
strange strange
slenderman you sly dog.
Did anyone else think of the G-Man from Half-life?
WANT THAT SUIT.
Personally i think the man is probably the devil
I dont know it just sounds like it because it says “he could probably get you to agree to anything to avoid that fate” so you know
it just makes sense to me
as for the beginning death is really the one thing i worry about
i do believe in God and the afterlife but sometimes even christians have moments of doubt and get scared.
i mean if you dont exist theres nothing to be scared about but what if you dont exist but are still there to witness everlasting nothingness
lol thats why that one episode of spongebob where they travel in time scares me when he breaks the elevator thing and he goes into the white room where there is nothing
thats what i worry about
PaperPasta: …dude, the author DID revisit the ‘hypothetical’ someone-who-can-convince-you-to-do-anything-to-avoid-nonexistence. Hello, Man in the Suit? Satan/Lucifer/the Devil/whatever moniker from whatever religion you prefer? Why do you think an oddly dressed man whom everyone sees but no one actively notices (if they do notice, their minds are evidently shocked into pretending they never saw him) would frequent a hospital…you know, a place where those particular near-death experiences happen quite often?
Are you just being obtuse, or are you really just that dim?
@ The Jester
Clearly you are an ignorant fuck. Allow me to educate you.
Your body rots because its cells dont get the nutrients they need. Your brain directs everything and causes you to be able to think and be concious while your blood delivers the nutrients to the rest of the body. If your heart or brain stops working or blood cannot get to a part in the body, the part dies of starvation. Basic, basic science. It has nothing to do with a soul.
(idiot…)
Sigma has an epic comment. I was laughing for 5 minutes straight. Wait, no one copy hi- Fff-
My friend and I reckoned that the end of consciousness is just that: a total stop of everything in your mind. You can’t form thoughts, remember, feel emotions, hear, see, smell, touch, taste, communicate, etc. or otherwise get the point across that you exist. But how can you exist, how can you be something- anything? -when we can only prove that we exist by thinking?
To that effect, death and nonexistence is the emptiness of conscious thought: it is when you cannot think. At all.
btw I was gonna say something about Descartes’ famous quote about this shit, but that would have sounded way too pseudo-intellectual for my tastes.