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You can conceptually understand death but you do not know it because you don’t experience it’s ‘ground rush’. So I disagree.

• latexr 3y ago
  > but you do not know it Neither do people on their death beds. > because you don’t experience it’s ‘ground rush’. Death isn’t a spectrum. By that logic, someone who almost died because of a car accident has better insights than someone in a hospice withering over months or years. A person who began pondering their own mortality a week ago because they got terminally ill doesn’t have more valid insights on life and death than a moderately healthy person who has been thinking about the subject every day for two decades.
  • RHSman2 3y ago
    You are missing the subjectivity of the life experience. Death is binary and beyond the event horizon therefore out of the equation. The experience of it is not. Try climbing. Top ropes, sport and traditional. All the same things but with wholly different consequences. The experience is entirely different. The person who had a near death experience versus dying is on a spectrum. One being acute, the other being chronic. Both would have different views.
    • latexr 3y ago
      > You are missing the subjectivity of the life experience. No, I am not. You keep making wrong assumptions about me and disagreeing on the surface while (seemingly) agreeing where it matters. > Both would have different views. Yes, exactly. Thus the views of the person on their death bed aren’t more universally valid. That’s the whole point I’m making.
      • RHSman2 3y ago
        I am not making any assumptions about you. Simply posting my opinion.