(December 8, 2017 at 1:05 pm)Aegon Wrote:(December 8, 2017 at 11:39 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: IMO, anybody who has been under general anaesthetic will have a good idea what it's like to not exist any more. When you're unconscious you have no senses of anything - although your body is still living, "you" cease to exist during that unconsciousness.
If you believe that what makes "you" is your consciousness, then take it away for two hours (under anaesthetic), or take it away for ever (death), the total non experience should be the same.
Alternatively think of the billions of years before you were born, which you weren't conscious of, and didn't exist in. If death is ceasing to exist, then it logically has to be the same when you die, as before you were born.
I'd say we all know too well what it's like to not exist - it's nothing - but many people can't or don't want to face up to it.
Hmm, I didn't think about general. I've been under it a couple of times. Though your body and brain continue to work and interact with one another, so there must be something different about the experience of death, no?
I'd say logically there is no difference between the nothingness of anaesthetic and the nothingness of death. IMO it's irrelevant if your body is still alive under anaesthetic if you are unaware of it or anything else.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
