RE: Death is the beginning
April 29, 2018 at 9:09 am
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2018 at 9:17 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(April 29, 2018 at 8:17 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Death is the end of life, by definition.
Absolutely agreed!
Even if the so-called "afterlife" of religion were true and we really did go somewhere else after our heart stopped beating... that just means life continues and that we never really die.
It shouldn't be called "afterlife". It should be called "continuinginanotherformlife" but I get that that's not as catchy.
(April 29, 2018 at 9:06 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Death is the beginning of an eternity in which there is no you.
Absolutely. Even if the atoms which made up your body and your consciousness eventually reassembled into another conscious being trillions of years later (or however long it would take, my guess is given an infinite period of time there's a non-zero chance of that happening) in the same way that DNA came out of non-biological life... whatever lifeform that was made of your atoms that eventually became conscious... it wouldn't be you.
In the same way that I am of the opinion that if I did have past lives... they weren't me and they weren't my past lives. It would be incorrect to say that I had a past life.
In fact, even if our consciousness never truly 100% died it would still become damaged to such a low level of consciousness that it was no longer us any more than a so-called past life would be if it re-emerged later.
This is why philosophical theories of personal identity are important!
