Life after death?

[Jenny A]

As I understand it, there isn't actually a period of no brain activity with clinical death--just very very low brain activity. But supposing you are right and it really does absolutely stop, then we might be back to Patient A and Patient A1. I just don't know. ---- But I wouldn't get in that transporter or volunteer to have my brain switched briefly off.

People said the same thing about trains when railways got built "I would never climb on that thing". There was a fear that pregnant women would lose their baby and those concerns were brought forth even by some doctors!

I'll pass just the same. Thanks.

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But to be perfectly clear, I don't see any evidence for continuing consciousness beyond a functioning brain. Brain dead is dead. A backup copy somewhere else is just a copy because so far there's no way to transfer consciousness from one brain to another or into anything else for that matter. Putting the copy in another universe doesn't solve that essential problem.