I don't think that the terrible thing about dying is the expiration of the self. The terrible thing is that WE must leave - and the party goes on without us. Social comparison until the end.
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There is this famous saying that being ostracized is like death, it is "social death". But it goes further: Real death IS social death, it is like being ostracized by the living.
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Very interesting! Unsatisfying explanation though. Episodic retrospection and prospection might explain lack of expected reduction, but not the paradoxical, dramatic increase. Maybe this is partly due to fear of an unfavorable rebirth. Buddhists have reason to fear the afterlife!
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Yes, it is unsatisfactory. But belief in reincarnation is unlikely to be the explanation, because Hindus also believe in that, and they showed less fear of death.
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Interesting. But who were the "Tibetan Buddhist monastics"? Not all monks meditate (or meditate much), and there could be other confounds here (doctrines about hell, etc.)
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Too much time spent chanting, performing other rituals. Insufficient time/effort devoted to actual meditation.
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What index did they use to score fear of death, what were the cross cultural indices used to ensure it was a reliable index and usually when an abstract has a "dramatic" result, words like significant are used along with p values?
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Really interesting. Any chance you would mind sharing the PDF?
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