Why your anxiety won't go away
Existential philosophy has always recognised that we are not equipped to deal with our annihilation. The mere thought of our non-being, not existing any more, brings on a terror so great that is beyond our capacity to withstand it. The pessimists consider this awareness of our own death as the greatest reason to stop procreating: why would we want to inflict this terror upon our children, their thinking goes. The kindest thing to do is not to expose any more humans to an awar