I'd say sleep, among its other functions, involuntarily habituates one to prolonged loss of one's self-awareness and thereby diminishes with age the anxiety of the inevitability of one's own death. Regardless, btw, the fear of dying (suffering) and the death of others remain – sleepwalking dreams of counterfactuals (e.g. "electric sheep"). :yawn:Is going to sleep routinely kind of like an acceptance of death? Of the unknown? — TiredThinker
Mirror images.Hypnos and Thanatos are brothers, yes, but the former is finite and the other infinite; exact opposites when you look at it like that. — Agent Smith
Mirror images. — 180 Proof
We expect to wake up yes, but it is never promised, and we know we will succumb eventually so non-acceptance is pointless. But certainly we'd prefer to be aware of our environment and self. If we tried to stay awake to the extent that it kills us that would certainly be dedication to extending awareness and sense of self that we hope to keep. — TiredThinker
There's nothing for the brain to be about in the pitch dark of night - might as well turn it (the brain) off, why waste energy? — Agent Smith
Without exception, every animal species studied to date sleeps, or engages in something remarkably like it. This includes insects, such as flies, bees, cockroaches, and scorpions; fish, from small perch to the largest sharks; amphibians, such as frogs; and reptiles, such as turtles, Komodo dragons, and chameleons. All have bona fide sleep. Ascend the evolutionary ladder further and we find that all types of birds and mammals sleep: from shrews to parrots, kangaroos, polar bears, bats, and, of course, we humans. Sleep is universal.
Sleeping is part of life — The Opposite
From sleep, it's possible to wake up; but from death, there's no such thing as life. — Agent Smith
This is true in one sense; false in another:
It is true that once you die your consciousness of yourself as a living breathing being is gone...but is that all there is to your being? Cannot a being survive his own death in a different way: ie, through his own writings or books written about him? Given that we all must die, wouldn’t we wish for the next best thing to immortality: to be remembered in our own or others writings? — Leghorn
dreamless sleep — Manuel
I think it may have been 180 Proof who pointed this out, but, Thanatos and Hypnos in Ancient Greek Mythology are brothers, suggesting that at least one culture suspected them to be similar. — Manuel
We define an unknown (death) in terms of a known (dreamless sleep). — Agent Smith
I blame Shakespeare. (Although he was only making a metaphor) — The Opposite
Yes. That's all, folks! According to The Church Without Christ, the dead stay dead, the lame don't walk, and the the blind don't see. — Bitter Crank
I'm old; I don't fear dying while I'm asleep. Seems like that would be the most convenient time to die — Bitter Crank
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of dearh but once. — Julius Caesar
'Sleep of death' makes no sense — universeness
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