> I assume, that when I die, this perspective goes away as well, I consider death to equal a total loss of consciousness ability to percieve. The perspective g

> I assume, that when I die, this perspective goes away as well, I consider death to equal a total loss of consciousness ability to percieve. The perspective goes away, but the ability to perceive is not part of the perspective. An old telescope goes offline, but the scientist is still there, peering through other telescopes. The body dies, but that which experiences the world through it doesn't. This is from "the perennial philsophy" (cf. Aldous Huxley), if you want to look into it, though a bit esoteric and not easy to find a contemporary simple explanation of it.