The expression nothingness and the void has been bandied around for centuries, but really, that experience is actually one of everything or all-inclusiveness. The only thing that doesn't exist in that state are the boundaries and separations that keep us from true power and understanding.
Don't confuse non-duality and unity with nothingness. Far from nothing or zero, these experiences and states of being include all of existence in that eternal moment.
So instead of this life being a delay to, or interruption of, nothingness, it is really a path to experience the power of existence in finer and finer forms as we learn, through awareness, to let it coalesce.
The only thing worthwhile to gain in existence is gained through living -- albeit painfully sometimes -- not in the absence of it. You're being misled by poor descriptions of what spiritual people supposedly strive for. Don't base life and death decisions on poor definitions and faulty information. Learn experientially, as opposed to intellectually is my advise; then you will see what I mean.
Best,
John
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