We already know what happens after death, have the cadaver farms to prove it, and it ain’t pretty. — NOS4A2
So are you basically suggesting a 'reincarnation' wherein your previous life experience is present but hidden but it acts as a depository which may/will influence decisions you make in your new incarnation? — universeness
Neither destination nor direction, this north of the north pole (i.e. "life after life", "you after you") fetish is the delusion.... then the you dies
the body rots
the living involuntarily forget the dead
eternal tides forever crash waves on oblivion
understand: we always already never were...
The other conclusions beg the question. They assume that an entity or substance exists within the biology but is not the biology, and second, that this entity or substance can somehow persist beyond the biology itself. It seems to me one should be proven before contemplating the other. — NOS4A2
Both the body and thus all states of the body dissolves upon death. — NOS4A2
Finally, there's death. We have countless cases. In every case of a person dying, they've remained dead. The brain is gone, and so is the person. There is no field of consciousness. No electromagnetic transportation of our consciousness. There is only the belief and desire that such things will occur — Philosophim
I think out of sheer intellectual curiosity it can be interesting to try to determine what happens after death. Does it really serve any practical purpose? Maybe not. — Paul Michael
The question one needs to ask, is given that different ontological assumptions about life lead to radically different conclusions about death that are in large part tautological, why choose a single ontology as being correct? Why not accept all of them and accept their respective conclusions relative to their respective ontology?
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