I’m a pretty mentally stable guy, don’t really got much anxiety, depression, etc. but something that always gave me shivers down my spine is thinking about what happens after we die. As a teenager I would lay awake at night feeling the closest thing I’ve felt to how people describe panic attacks thinking about what I will experience after I die, or more about what I won’t experience anymore. Interestingly about these worries is I’m Christian, however when the topic of an afterlife comes up its extremely hard for me to believe. I’ve asked my parents for advice and they said “you just need to have faith” which didn’t help at all, and I’ve looked online for advice and heard the whole “there will be nothing so you will feel nothing so don’t worry about it” which honestly made it even worse. What are some books that deal with this unimaginable mindfuck that keeps me up at night?
by Skaxva
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Some fiction suggestions:
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Caitlin Doughty does some of the best writing about death in my opinion (she’s a practicing mortician), my personal favorite is “Will my Cat Eat my Eyeballs” but I suspect you might land better with From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Not so much a focus on an afterlife, but might give you the opportunity to come to terms with the death part and maybe make the “what next?” part more tenable?