[Yasa]

I agree with ItsDarts regarding what death is 'like' and am in a kind of agreement that it doesn't make sense to say equate freedom and death. However, the quote is a very eerie and tempting idea to think about.

I am in full agreement with what orgaelin said regarding the relativity of happiness and freedom. After all, if sadness didn't exist, neither would happiness. If we were absolutely free in all senses then we wouldn't know it because there would be nothing to measure our freedom against.

That being said, there will always exist 'non-freedom' in the world, so I completely agree that the most freedom possible is a necessary component to happiness.

Heh, this thread makes me thing of some lines I wrote a few years ago.

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In search of a place;
A place with perfect purple forests,
Azure streams both hot and cold.
A place of peace and of conflict,
Of meaning and of feeling.

In search of a time;
A time when myth reigned,
And magic filled the air.
A time when there was zero gravity,
Zero worry, zero doubt, and filled with zero zeros.

In search of everything;
Everything immaculately flawed;
Everything fearful and loving;
In search of a place that doesn’t exist.

My quest is incomplete,
But I can imagine success.
It’s waiting just beyond—just out of reach.
It all comes down to this shot—this breakaway.
I am checked by the last defender: impossibility.