Death is the beginning

[Little Rik]

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.

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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!

How lucky we are.
We can guess and guess with our wild fantasy so that keep us alive.
In this way we never die.

The danger however is that too much fantasy can also damage the brain.  

Thanks for you effort anyway brother.  

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Notice a few hundred years ago we were already dead certain little Rik was a total moron,  and our definition of moron haven’t needed any changing, and you are precisely as moronic now as then?

Well, well...........

We go from a fact (mine) to an offensive strike (yours).
While I produce something interesting you produce only more babble-trifle.