What are your thoughts on possible afterlives? — Random Name
If I accept that there is no such thing as a soul — Random Name
Yep, the 'I' dies. — Wayfarer
And everything I've ever thought, everything I've ever done, any "legacy" I might have tried to create will be rendered moot — Random Name
Pedantic quibble:What are your thoughts on possible afterlives? — Random Name
He doesn't care if his books are still selling. He doesn't care if his theories all get outlawed and every trace of his research burned. He doesn't care if children dress up as him for Halloween. He's dead. — Random Name
Stephen Hawking doesn't "live on". That's kinda what brought me to this point. — Random Name
Why do you think you know all this? — Hippyhead
That's just the natural extension of there being no afterlife. — Random Name
Doesn't he? We're still talking about him. Children who have yet to be born will continue to know and learn about him for the foreseeable future. — Outlander
How do you know there is no afterlife?
You're not ruffling any feathers here, as I assure you I have no idea what the answer is. — Hippyhead
The best theory I've heard for the continuation of existence after "death" is the multiverse theory. Essentially, for every universe in which I've kicked the bucket, there's another universe where I didn't. — Random Name
... until your body becomes so damaged with age that it will be incompatible with life. Then there will be exactly zero parallel universes in which you continue to live. — litewave
Stephen Hawking doesn't "live on". — Random Name
No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life…is only the core of their actual existence.
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