I think the final destination of non-existence is actually a good thing. It might not be a conscious experience but it lacks suffering or hardship of any kind - there are certain experiences that are much worse than non-existence, and many of us have experienced things like that in our lives.
I acquired peace and I feel like I grew wiser when I realized that non-existence for everyone, and everything, is actually better than the happiness we experience.. if that happiness is coupled with an equal or greater amount of suffering.
And this is some of what I meant when I said "Life always wins". @galenkp. It's okay to strive and do our best, but to actually believe that we can fight life and win is nothing but shortsighted.
All gains are temporary, and if we understand that.. we won't suffer as much as we approach the final loss of non-existence.
Interesting viewpoint, but I think its worth noting that this theory of "death as nothingness", is itself unproven and untestable.
And the tricky bit about that is this, to assume the end brings relief from pain is to presuppose afterlife doesn't leave room for spiritual suffering...
The Christian ideal is that all mankind is made in the image of God, and that therefore our essence is infinite. And we therefore are either to be infinitely joyous and fulfilled, with God, or we choose disconnect and seperation from God and all that entails.
Not the happiest thought I know but, its food for thought.
I tend to focus more on living than dying and what happens afterwards. If I end up in Dante's seven levels of hell then I'll deal with it at that stage. I've seen enough death in my time to understand that life is what we have right now.
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