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Dead or alive they are still your friends, family, coworkers, etc. You take care of each other no matter what. Thats it.
by asimuvPR 10y ago
Dead or alive they are still your friends, family, coworkers, etc. You take care of each other no matter what. Thats it.
- rev_bird 10y ago>Dead or alive they are still your friends, family, coworkers I think that's the main idea at issue here: Are they still those people? Or are they just, to oversimplify a little, just some old meat?
- asimuvPR 10y agoYour body is as much part of you as your mind/thoughts/consciousness. Just like a battery is still a battery even after it holds no more charge. It's not a piece of metal but a battery. A dead one at that.
- dTal 10y agoI think it's arguable that a battery that can no longer be charged is a "battery". At best it's a "dead battery", and you'd be annoyed if someone sold you the latter as the former. Analogously, I would not call Bob's dead body "Bob", but rather "Bob's corpse". It's kind of a dumb philosophical argument though. We all know what's really going on, so it's pointless to argue over words.
- rev_bird 10y agoIt might be (waaay) outside the scope of the usual discussions around here, but I don't know that it's pointless. I'm an atheist, and I'm totally fine with the idea that when I die, that's it, I'm as dead as any other organism. Still, though, I've got strong opinions about how I want to be "disposed of" when I die. Burial evokes strong emotions for me, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. Even in games like Fallout, I try not to leave corpses just lying in a river or in a shrub or something, even if it was somebody who was just trying to knife-murder me. I accept that it isn't a person anymore, like I said in my previous comment, but I still have a sentimental attachment to the... husk.