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The 4 existential fears are one of the greatest psychological hurdles. Do you know what they are?
Fear of Death: Because we are mortal, our death frightens us. We fear it because we do not know what happens when we die. But there is a deeper reason why death frightens us. It is that the time before our birth and after our death has become important to us.
It was not always so. Considering the history of life, it seems that in evolutionary terms our birth and death are relatively unimportant events.
If we think about it, our lives are usually spent taking care of ourselves. When we make love to a partner, we feel good. Also when we eat something tasty and delicious or see something beautiful in nature or man-made structure.
It is possible that we are programmed by nature to feel this way. In evolutionary terms, it makes sense for us to seek pleasure and avoid pain.
But however this may be, it seems that we have not been programmed to think about the time before our birth and after our death. Why should evolution do so?
Because before you were born, the time was limited to some years after your birth.