Is there a fate worse than oblivion? Is there a fate worse than oblivion?

To forget, to be forgotten is there  … Chant for anti-nothingless?
The opportunity afforded by human life is rare and precious. To embrace oblivion as a human would be...sad.

SN56.47


  “Mendicants, suppose a person was to throw a yoke with a single hole into the ocean. And there was a one-eyed turtle who popped up once every hundred years.
  What do you think, mendicants?
  Would that one-eyed turtle, popping up once every hundred years, still poke its neck through the hole in that yoke?”
  
  “Only after a very long time, sir, if ever.”
  
  “That one-eyed turtle would poke its neck through the hole in that yoke sooner than a fool who has fallen to the underworld would be reborn as a human being, I say.


Also see DN23 on Nihilism:


  Nihilism
  
  Seated to one side, the chieftain Pāyāsi said to Venerable Kassapa the Prince:
  “Master Kassapa, this is my doctrine and view:
  ‘There’s no afterlife. No beings are reborn spontaneously. There’s no fruit or result of good and bad deeds.’”
  
  “Well, chieftain, I’ve never seen or heard of anyone holding such a doctrine or view.
  
  For how on earth can anyone say such a thing?