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It is said that a person dies three deaths: First, when their body stops functioning. Second, when their body is buried (or cremated). And the third and final
by mirkules 9y ago
It is said that a person dies three deaths:
First, when their body stops functioning. Second, when their body is buried (or cremated). And the third and final death is when their name is uttered for the very last time in human history.
I am fairly confident Stephen Hawking will have only died two deaths.
- purple-again 9y agoI was under the impression it was: 1) When your body dies 2) When you the last person who remembers you dies 3) When the last thing you impacted is gone Now existence has returned to a state as if you had never been at all.
- mirkules 9y agoIt could be. I first heard my version on a podcast (of course, I forgot which one), but looking around it is attributed to a Stanford professor David Eagleman: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/336070-there-are-three-deaths-the-first-is-when-the-body https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/336070-there-are-three-deat...