History Main / CessationOfExistence

-->Imagine there's no Heaven
-->It's easy if you try
-->No hell below us
-->Above us only sky
** [[MoralDissonance Apparently, this image is supposed to be comforting: no judgment, no discrimination, no after-death torment.]] To someone who's been raised with a belief in Heaven, however, it's nothing less than NightmareFuel.

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** [[MoralDissonance Apparently, this image is supposed to be comforting: no judgment, no discrimination, no after-death torment.]] To someone who's been raised with a belief in Heaven, however, it's nothing less than HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

** [[MoralDissonance Apparently, this image is supposed to be comforting: no judgment, no discrimination, no after-death torment. To someone who's been raised with a belief in Heaven, however, it's nothing less than HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

* In a story by StanislawLem, a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human Robot]] called Automateusz ends up stranded on a DesertedIsland, along with his artifical friend, (called Wuch) a small, intelligent ball. After calculating that the odds of getting saved are next to nothing, Wuch advises Automateusz to commit suicide to avoid an inavitable and much more painful death, and brings up several argument for the case that CessationOfExistence is actually the greatest thing that could happen to a person.

* In a story by StanislawLem, a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human Robot]] called Automateusz ends up stranded on a DesertedIsland, along with his artifical friend, called Wuch who is a small, intelligent ball. After calculating that the odds of getting saved are next to nothing, Wuch advises Automateusz to commit suicide to avoid an inavitable and much more painful death, and brings up several argument for the case that CessationOfExistence is actually the greatest thing that could happen to a person.

* In a story by StanislawLem, a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots RidiculouslyHumanRobot]] called Automateusz ends up stranded on a DesertedIsland, along with his artifical friend, called Wuch who is a small, intelligent ball. After calculating that the odds of getting saved are next to nothing, Wuch advises Automateusz to commit suicide to avoid an inavitable and much more painful death, and brings up several argument for the case that CessationOfExistence is actually the greatest thing that could happen to a person.

This may very well be the ''reason'' death is such a common PrimalFear, though arguably this an effect of our evolved instincts. (For humans, anyway. Flies and other such bugs, for instance, seem to have some sense of fear or panic when you swat at them, yet it would be quite a stretch to say that they can conceive of thoughts of such a complex and philosophical bent, if they even know of their mortality on a mental level at all.)

** Judging by the codex he left behind in AC2, Altair appears to believe in this as well,.

* This is the fate of anyone who falls into a Time Crack in DoctorWho, during Eleven's first season.

** WordOfGod says they cease to exist. See the explanation at BlindIdiotTranslation.

* In the ''NightWatch'' books, the {{afterlife}} is only for Others; {{muggles}} just cease to exist.

* [[TheBeatles John Lennon]] - ''Imagine'':

* In {{Dragonheart}} Dragon Sean Connery says that only certain dragons get to have an afterlife, branded by the stars. The others just...disappear when they die.

->''For the living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, For the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished; nevermore will they have a share in anything done under the sun.''

->''There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.''

* This implied to be the fate of those in NeonGenesisEvangelion who are killed before instrumentality.
* In both ''{{Dragonball}}'' and ''YuYuHakusho'', this is what happens if someone who is already dead is somehow killed. In addition, in YuYuHakusho, certain creatures can eat a person's soul and cause them to cease to exist.

The cessation of existence is not a lovely FluffyCloudHeaven or a boiling molten {{hell}}: you know nothing, you feel nothing, and you ''are'' nothing. If you cease to exist and are gone forever, you have no knowledge of anything, not even of your own death. In other words, permanent and total [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconsciousness unconsciousness]].

The cessation of existence is not a lovely FluffyCloudHeaven or a boiling molten {{hell}}: you know nothing, you feel nothing, and you ''are'' nothing. If you cease to exist and are gone forever, you have no knowledge of anything, not even of your own death.

This may very well be the ''reason'' death is such a common PrimalFear. (For humans, anyway. Flies and other such bugs, for instance, seem to have some sense of fear or panic when you swat at them, yet it would be quite a stretch to say that they can conceive of thoughts of such a complex and philosophical bent, if they even know of their mortality on a mental level at all.)