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->''Death's central horror is oblivion. The terrifying absolute dying of the light. Death has dominion because it is not only the start of nothing; it's the end of everything.''
-->-- '''Ronald Dworkin'''

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->''Death's central horror is oblivion. The oblivion - the terrifying absolute dying of the light. [...] Death has dominion because it is not only the start of nothing; it's the end of everything.''
-->-- '''Ronald Dworkin'''
Dworkin''', ''Life's Dominion''
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->''"Your biological processes will break down, and the dynamic pattern that is "you" will stop being dynamic. It will dissolve into there is no "you" left. Some believe that there's a part of us that we can't see or measure, but we have no way to find out, so this life might be it and we might end up dead forever. This is less scary than it sounds, though--if you don't remember the 13.75 billion years that went by before you existed, then the trillions and trillions and trillions of years that come after will pass in no time once you're gone. Close your eyes. Count to one. That's how long forever feels."''
-->--''WebAnimation/{{Kurzgesagt}}'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14 Optimistic Nihilism]]
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->Most of the bodies were cactus. Some, he saw with misery and without surprise, were still breathing. They lay discarded: [[EmptyShell husks, empty bottles]]. They would drool and piss and shit their last imbecilic days or hours out in this stifling hole, until they died of hunger and thirst and rotted as mindlessly as they had at the end.
->They could not be in paradise or Hell, thought Isaac despondently. Their spirits could not roam in spectral form. [[DeaderThanDead They had been metabolized. They had been drunk and shat out, converted by vile oneirochymical processes and become fuel for a slake-moth flight.
-->--''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation''
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Sing: six feet deep... that's where I'm going.\\

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Sing: ->Sing: six feet deep... that's where I'm going.\\



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Sing: six feet deep... that's where I'm going.\\
Six feet deep... no afterliving.\\
Six feet deep... yup, it's depressing.\\
(...)
Sing: in a wooden box... that's where I'm heading.\\
A wooden box... forever dead in-\\
A wooden box... no resurrecting.\\
A wooden box... yep, it's depressing.\\
(..)
Sing: In A little urn... that's where they put me.\\
A little urn... all dry and sooty.\\
A little urn... no life unending.\\
A little urn... yep, it's depressing.
-->-- Series/SpittingImage, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryWVRS4aehM The Atheist Tabernacle Choir skit]]
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->''Eternal nothingness is O.K. if you're dressed for it.''
-->--'''Creator/WoodyAllen'''
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'''Herb:''' No, I don't think so. It's the way it is you know. Everything must come to an end; the drip finally stops.\\

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'''Herb:''' No, I don't think so. It's the way it is you know. Everything must come to an end; the drip finally stops.\\ ''(sticks his arm into the Black Door)''\\



'''Herb:''' Oh [=BoJack=], no, there is no "other side". ''This is it.''

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'''Herb:''' Oh ''(as the liquid darkness seeps out of the door and starts slowly swallowing him)'' Oh, [=BoJack=], no, no... there is no "other side". ''This is it.'' (the darkness consumes him completely)''
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->'''[=BoJack=]:''' Is it... terrifying?\\
'''Herb:''' No, I don't think so. It's the way it is you know. Everything must come to an end; the drip finally stops.\\
'''[=BoJack=]:''' See you on the other side.\\
'''Herb:''' Oh [=BoJack=], no, there is no "other side". ''This is it.''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS6E15TheViewFromHalfwayDown The View From Halfway Down]]"
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->'''Chidi:''' We're gonna set up a new kind of door, somewhere peaceful, so that when you feel happy and satisfied and complete and you want to leave the [[{{Heaven}} Good Place]] for good, you can just walk through it, and your time in the universe will end.\\
'''Tahani:''' You don't have to go through it if you don't want to, but you can. And hopefully knowing that you don't have to be here forever will help you feel happier while you are.\\
'''Guy:''' What will happen when we go through it?\\
'''Janet:''' Well, we don't really know, exactly. All we know is it will be peaceful and your journey will be over.\\
'''Michael:''' You led great lives. You earned your place here. So stay here as long as you like. Use the green doors to see and do every single thing you want to see and do. And when you're ready, walk through one last door, and be at peace.
-->-- ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', "Patty"
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->'''Janet:''' What do you think happens when people walk through the door? It's the only thing in the universe I don't know.\\
'''Eleanor:''' I don't know either. The wave returns to the ocean. What the ocean does with the water after that is anyone's guess.
-->-- ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', "Whenever You're Ready"
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->Dimwits. We are all Thra - all except ''you.'' You do not [[TheLifestream return to Thra]] when ''you'' perish. What happens to you when your part of the song is done, hm? Never figured that out, did you? Tried, but failed. Maybe nothing is all that waits for you. So make your choice: do we have a deal, or will you sentence one of your own to endless oblivion?
-->--'''Aughra''' to the Skeksis, ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance,'' "[[Recap/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistanceS1E9TheCrystalCalls The Crystal Calls]]"
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-> ''You asked why Dark Wizards are afraid of death. Pretend, Headmaster, that you really believed in souls. Pretend that anyone could verify the existence of souls at any time, pretend that nobody cried at funerals because they knew their loved ones were still alive. Now can you imagine destroying a soul? Ripping it to shreds so that nothing remains to go on its next great adventure? Can you imagine what a terrible thing that would be, the worst crime that had ever been committed in the history of the universe, which you would do anything to prevent from happening even once? Because that's what Death really is - the annihilation of a soul!''
-->-- '''Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres''' to Dumbledore, ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality''
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-> ''Dying means to be gone, and what goes is not your pain but your existence itself. But in your mind, you think you'd have a sense of 'nothing' after you die. How can you call that 'nothing'? In other words, you don't even have an idea of what death is really like.''
-->-- '''Izaya Orihara''', ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}''
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->''For me, there is nothing after the last grimace. If there is something, I'll come back to tell you.''
-->-- '''Max Estrella''', ''Bohemian Lights''

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->'''Guildenstern:''' Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't ''not'' be on a boat.\\

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->'''Guildenstern:''' Death is... not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't ''not'' be on a boat.\\



'''Rosencrantz:''' I've frequently not been on boats.

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'''Rosencrantz:''' I've frequently not been on boats.\\
'''Guildenstern:''' No, no, no – what you've been is not on boats.
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->'''Harbour:''' What's it like, being dead?\\
'''Wilbur:''' It's dull as dishwater. It's silent and completely dark... it's like being in Wales.
-->-- '''Film/WilburWantsToKillHimself'''
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->'''The Chaplain:''' And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die and nothing remains?\\
'''Meursault:''' Yes, I said.
-->-- ''Literature/{{The Stranger}}''
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-->--'''Jacob Hargreave''',''VideoGame/Crysis2''

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-->--'''Jacob Hargreave''',''VideoGame/Crysis2''Hargreave''', ''VideoGame/Crysis2''
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->''Will there been an afterlife, I wonder? Choirs of angels? Or a fiery pit? One unlearns these falsehoods over time, but the child who learnt to fear hell is never really gone. To tell the truth, I think I had enough of afterlives as it is - this one has been pretty purgatorial. Almost fifty years floating in supercooled jelly like some medical specimen, thoughts creeping like rats through cramped silicon corridors of machines trapped behind video screens and camera systems. Never sleeping, never resting, never ceasing to think about the world I no longer belong to. No, if this is a taste of the afterlife, I think simple oblivion will do nicely.''
-->--'''Jacob Hargreave''',''VideoGame/Crysis2''

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->'''Harbour:''' What's it like, being dead?\\
'''Wilbur:''' It's dull as dishwater. It's silent and completely dark... it's like being in Wales.
-->-- '''Film/WilburWantsToKillHimself'''



-> ''It would be swell''\\
''To see some folk burn in hell.''\\
''But when they go''\\
''It's just as pleasant to know''\\
''That the dead only quickly decay.''\\
''They don't go about being born and reborn''\\
''And rising and falling like souffle.''\\
''The dead only quickly decay.''

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-> ''It ->''It would be swell''\\
''To
swell''\\
To
see some folk burn in hell.''\\
''But
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But
when they go''\\
''It's
go\\
It's
just as pleasant to know''\\
''That
know\\
That
the dead only quickly decay.''\\
''They
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They
don't go about being born and reborn''\\
''And
reborn\\
And
rising and falling like souffle.''\\
''The
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The
dead only quickly decay.''



->''The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse'' \\
''- The good not done, the love not given, time'' \\
''Torn off unused - nor wretchedly because''\\
''An only life can take so long to climb''\\
''Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never;''\\
''But at the total emptiness for ever,''\\
''The sure extinction that we travel to''\\
''And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,''\\
''Not to be anywhere, ''\\
''And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.''

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->''The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse'' \\
''-
remorse\\
-
The good not done, the love not given, time'' \\
''Torn
time\\
Torn
off unused - nor wretchedly because''\\
''An
because\\
An
only life can take so long to climb''\\
''Clear
climb\\
Clear
of its wrong beginnings, and may never;''\\
''But
never;\\
But
at the total emptiness for ever,''\\
''The
ever,\\
The
sure extinction that we travel to''\\
''And
to\\
And
shall be lost in always. Not to be here,''\\
''Not
here,\\
Not
to be anywhere, ''\\
''And
anywhere,\\
And
soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.''



->'' Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.''

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->'' Annihilation ->''Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.''



->''"Death solves all problems -- no man, no problem."''

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->''"Death ->''Death solves all problems -- no man, no problem."''''
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-->--'''Attributed to UsefulNotes/JosephStalin''

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-->--'''Attributed to UsefulNotes/JosephStalin''UsefulNotes/JosephStalin'''
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->''"Death solves all problems -- no man, no problem."''
-->--'''Attributed to UsefulNotes/JosephStalin''
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-->--''Creator/ChristopherHitchens''

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-->--''Creator/ChristopherHitchens''-->--'''Creator/ChristopherHitchens'''
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->''It will happen to all of us, that at some point you get tapped on the shoulder and told, not just that the party’s over, but slightly worse: the party’s going on — but you have to leave. And it’s going on without you.''
-->--''Creator/ChristopherHitchens''
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->''I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.''
-->-- '''Creator/MarkTwain''' (attributed)

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->''I do not fear death. I had been dead ->'' Annihilation has no terrors for billions and billions of years me, because I have already tried it before I was born, and had not born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the slightest inconvenience from it.whole hundred million years put together.''
-->-- '''Creator/MarkTwain''' (attributed)
'''Creator/MarkTwain''', autobiography
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->''You want me to say it, brother? You want me to say I'm afraid? Doesn't that go without saying? When mortals die, their souls go somewhere - there's no place where gods go when they die! There's nothing, just oblivion...''
-->-- '''Hades''', ''[[Film/ClashOfTheTitans Wrath of the Titans]]''

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->''You want me to say it, brother? You want me to say I'm afraid? Doesn't that go without saying? When mortals die, their souls go somewhere - -- there's no place where gods go when they die! There's nothing, just oblivion...''
-->-- '''Hades''', ''[[Film/ClashOfTheTitans Wrath of the Titans]]''
''Film/WrathOfTheTitans''
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-->--'''[[{{Franchise/Bionicle}} Makuta]] [[BigBad Teridax]]''', ''Mata Nui Online Game''

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-->--'''[[{{Franchise/Bionicle}} -->--'''[[{{VideoGame/Bionicle}} Makuta]] [[BigBad Teridax]]''', ''Mata Nui Online Game''
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-->-- '''Philip Larkin''', "Aubade"

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-->-- '''Philip Larkin''', '''Creator/PhilipLarkin''', "Aubade"
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-->--''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI''

->''I know that the elements of my body will return to the Earth. But what of my consciousness? My identity? That is to say – what of ME? I suspect it will end. That there is no next world. Nor a return to this one. It will simply be done. Forever. Our lives are so brief and unimportant. The cosmos cares nothing for us. For what we've done; Had we wrought evil instead of good. Had I chosen to abuse the [[ArtifactOfDoom Apple]] instead of seal it away. None of it would have mattered. There is no counting. No reckoning. No final judgement. There is simply silence. And darkness. Utter and absolute...''
--> '''Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad''', ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed''

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-->--''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI''

-->-- ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI''

->''I know that the elements of my body will return to the Earth. But what of my consciousness? My identity? That is to say -– what of ME? I suspect it will end. That there is no next world. Nor a return to this one. It will simply be done. Forever. Our lives are so brief and unimportant. The cosmos cares nothing for us. For what we've done; Had we wrought evil instead of good. Had I chosen to abuse the [[ArtifactOfDoom Apple]] instead of seal it away. None of it would have mattered. There is no counting. No reckoning. No final judgement. There is simply silence. And darkness. Utter and absolute...''
--> -->-- '''Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad''', ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed''

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