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* Take a moment to consider the possibility that there is no afterlife. That there is no immortal soul to survive biological death. That means that beyond death, is [[Nothing Is Scarier|nothing]]. Absolute oblivion.And even if some sort of consciousness could be somehow retained, what would await anyone would be an ''eternal'' non-existence devoid of any feelings whatsoever.

** Think for a minute. You can reincarnate as a different species. A dog. A paramecium. A plant. A shark. That had his fins cut off. You are both the person being cruel to animals and the animals being abused.

** Because if you consider the universal ancestor theory,every single living thing on our planet came from the same thing,which then proceeded to clone itself continuously.Our whole world is populated by a single thing that has gone through and is going through billions of horrible mutations.Think of the most hideous disgusting creature in existence.Billions of years ago you and that thing where essentially the same thing.

** Gravity is one of the weakest forces in the universe, and is easily overcome by an ant. Now, remember Black Holes. These things use one of the weakest forces in the entire universe to such colossal effect, it can crush ''literally anything'' to such an unimaginably tiny size, it may as well not exist any more. Entire stars that make the sun look like a pinprick are torn utterly to pieces and ''completely disappear'' into a something the size of a ''grain of dust''... by a force which, on earth, can be easily overcome by a magnet. Just take a moment to consider how apocalyptically powerful these things are.

** Here's another one. It's theorized that at the beginning of the universe all four forces were unified into a super-force. Over time the four forces we have today "froze out" (or split off) into each other. It's conceivable that, at any time, an other force could "freeze out" completely and totally altering the structure of the universe...and killing all of us instantaneously.

** More brain horror. Your brain writes its own memories to fill in any gaps it comes across. These fake memories are completely indistinguishable from the real thing and are sprinkled throughout every single event you carry memories of. What's more, even with video or other records there will ''never'' be a way for you to be completely sure which parts of your past actually happened, and which parts were simply imagined for you.

* [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/1932594019.html This] series of experiments performed on people who have had the connecting structures between their right and left brain hemispheres severed. Excerpt here:

* You know that [[Marital Rape License]] trope? Given how recently values have changed against that trope, YOU could easily have an ancestor who was conceived under these circumstances. It gets worse when you get into the [[Old Man Marrying a Child]] trope. A young girl is able to reproduce pretty early and men are able to keep reproducing for a long time, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-476980/Worlds-oldest-father-21st-child-90.html even up to the age of 90]. And one of your ancestors could have been conceived this way.

** Worse, there's no reason why it couldn't apply to the ''majority'' of your ancestors.

** {{spoiler|That dog's stomach was removed. Depending how nerves were severed it probably felt like it was, (and in a very real way ''it was'',) starving to death.}}

* Realizing that five years ago, there was a suicide bomber in the market where you are standing, which is absolutely packed with people today. Knowing that violence is expected to start again, and knowing that the places you visit every day could be ground zero for another attack.

** There's a sci-fic [http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/2294/loop story] with that very summary...

* There is an old expression that says "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." It's surprising how many people use this expression without realizing what it is implying about the first mouse. Of course, many people have never heard the second half of the aphorism.

* You might have had at least a partial role in driving someone to suicide and [[But for Me It Was Tuesday|you don't even know it]].

* Even if a person with one or more [[Abusive Parents]] manages to get out of the household and even cut off all ties with the parent(s) that abused them, that is still not enough to solve their problems. They are still at risk for being abused by their significant others because since abuse was a normal part of life for them from the people who they were supposed to have a loving relationship with, they are more likely to accept abusive behaviors as loving behavior. Conversely, they are more likely to be abusive towards their potential significant others in attempts to be loving. Not to mention the fact that they are at risk for abusing their children because abuse was simply a part of the way they were parented and the experience they have to go by.

* Dying Alone, completely and utterly. Never having loved. Never having a family (if you care to have one that is). Just dying. Combine this with the idea of there being no after-life , no reincarnation. This is the ultimate horror for this troper.

* [[Rule 34]] can be this if you think about it too hard.

** Also the fact that some [[Rule 34]] ''is ridicuously well-made'', sometimes ''of higher quality than what it's based on''. Yes, even the [[Squick|Squicky]] ones including stuff like [[Gorn]] and [[Nausea Fuel|bodily fluids]].

** Not to mention, Rule 34 of horrifying things - ''someone'' finds this arousing.

* When you stay in a hospital, there's a damned good chance several hundred or thousand people have died in your room, and many, many people have died in the very bed you're currently occupying.

* To expand on the above: If your home is anywhere from 50 to 100+ years old, there's a damned good chance that the house had been host to a lot of horrible things. Drunkards, dysfunctional families, etc. Your room may very well be the room where someone had died in. [[Tear Jerker|And it probably wasn't only just the]] 'old age' thing, either...

* You could be walking over a long-abandoned, long-forgotten graveyard, and not even know it.

* Alcohol removes inhibitions, and wipes out memory to a large extent. Imagine you're a teetotaler then. Now, what happens when you have all your inhibitions? You generally don't cross certain boundaries with other people you otherwise might, meaning you're more likely to be alone. You're also more likely to end up rejected because nondrinkers past a certain age with no history of alcoholism have a tough time explaining their choices, don't hang out in bars or if they do are seen as taking advantage since they're the one not drinking. All that loneliness and rejection? Not being able to forget it.

* The Duggar family on 19 Kids and Counting. They are a conservative fundamentalist Christian family with 10 sons and 9 daughters. Not much is known about female homosexuality as compared to male homosexuality, but due to the [[wikipedia:Fraternal birth order and male sexual orientation|Fraternal Birth Order effect]], each older brother a man has increases the odds that he will be gay. If the base chance of a man turning out to have a homosexual orientation is 2% and each older brother increases the chances of a homosexual orientation by 28-48%, that means that little Jackson, their 15th child and 10th son, alone has a chance as high as 68% of turning out to be gay. Given the amount of children they have, especially sons, it is most likely that at least one of them will turn out to be gay. Add into the mix the facts that Bob and Michelle Duggar restrict their childrens' access to television and the Internet and have praised and donated to anti-gay organizations such as the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family and [[Tear Jerker|you can't help but cry when you think about how ugly things could get for whichever child(ren) turn(s) out to be gay]]. For example, it is common for anti-gay parents to kick their child(ren) out of the house or disown them once they discover that they're gay. And to make it more horrifying, some people will ''[[Culture Justifies Anything|excuse it]]'' [[Culture Justifies Anything|as being part of the parents' religion or culture]].

** Consider what happens to gay people in general... there were several documents of people who were beaten up and relentlessly abused at school or at work because they were "Gay" or even worse. Simply because they were different. [[Karma Houdini|and most of their tormentors got away with it]]. It's also especially bad considering that ''some of these people weren't gay at all'' - they were merely autistic, retarded, or had something else.

** Ask anyone who works in public service - trust me enough people have ''wanted'' to do this stuff.

* Consider this: There was a [[Real Life]] section of [[Karma Houdini]] before it was removed. enough people ''got away with stuff'' to actually ''warrant'' a [[Real Life]] section.