So, in principle, you could be in a

large enough black hole, you wouldn't

know. We could be in a black hole right

now. The event horizon is not a

particularly violent place for you. You

can calculate the tidal forces, and

they're not particularly big. Or rather,

for large black holes, they're not

particularly big. For a solar mass black

hole, they would be pretty big, and it

would be pretty painful for you. You'd

find that your feet are being attracted

to the black hole much more vigorously

than your head is, cuz they're closer,

and you end up getting stretched. But if

I take a big enough black hole, you

wouldn't notice anything funny happening

whatsoever. When you cross the event

horizon, uh you are doomed. You are

doomed, but you are not dead. Uh you are

only for sure dead once you hit the

singularity and get spaghettified, get

mangled by the by the tidal forces. But

for a large enough black hole, uh you

can be doomed uh and not even know it.

You could live out your life, you could

have descendants, all of whom live

inside the black hole, and only once you

really approach the singularity do the

tidal forces get strong and kill you.