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Living forever sounds awful. For one, I am extremely curious what happens when I die. Without death, life becomes a hollow shell, or at least I imagine it would
by goolz 6mo ago
Living forever sounds awful. For one, I am extremely curious what happens when I die. Without death, life becomes a hollow shell, or at least I imagine it would, as you would lack urgency.
- dmd 6mo agoI’ll answer that question for you for free. Here’s what happens:
- goolz 6mo agoI medically died a couple years back. I don’t remember a thing, so perhaps you are right. Still curious.
- dmd 6mo agoThe concept of “medically died” is kind of ridiculous. Are you alive? Then you weren’t dead.
- goolz 6mo agoIt is a clinical term, you are arguing over semantics. Cardiopulmonary death to be specific. My point is: no one knows, not you, not me, and not my dog.
- lostmsu 6mo agoI don't know what's behind a wall I'm sitting next to right now, but I'm reasonably sure there's a street. I'm also reasonably sure the comment about "you've been dead" is also a very accurate prediction.
- goolz 6mo agoThat wall is concrete and material. Death is not so much. I am reasonably sure you can do that with great accuracy while still having zero idea what lies in wait for us after we die. A false equivalence.
- lostmsu 6mo ago> concrete and material Are as abstract as death. Names that we use to label certain phenomenon. You need more to demonstrate that the equivalence is false here.
- boxed 6mo ago"Semantics" is literally "what words mean" so yea, arguing over semantics is pretty important! Not something to dismiss.
- m463 6mo agoI've had procedures at the hospital two ways... One is general anaesthesia, where you are "out" The other is with something like fentanyl where you could have a whole conversation during the procedure, but when you finish the procedure, you don't remember it. The experience afterwards is pretty much identical, but philosophically both seem very different.
- dyauspitr 6mo agoI don’t get this perspective at all. Why die? Do things forever.
- otikik 6mo agoYou have already been dead. It feels exactly like it felt before you were born.
- amazingamazing 6mo agoThis is conjecture. No one knows.
- otikik 6mo agoIt is the simplest explanation. It is the conjeture that it feels any different that needs a proof.
- Henchman21 6mo agoJust like "life after death" but entire religions have sprung up around knowing this unknowable thing.
- bloppe 6mo agoIt is funny how concerned and uncomfortable people are with death, but how little they think about pre-life, if at all
- MattPalmer1086 6mo agoI don't quite get your position. On the one hand you say without death life would lack urgency, yet you seem to be open to life after death. If there was life after death... wouldn't it lack urgency? If there isn't life after death, you simply don't exist anymore and there are no more possibilities open to you. So I'd be more than happy to postpone finding about out for as long as possible.
- goolz 6mo agoLife without death would lack urgency. I do not know what happens when I die, ergo I am curious. Not mutually exclusive.
- MattPalmer1086 6mo agoThanks, I get it.
- card_zero 6mo agoHow about if I chase you down the street with a stick? I mean, to impart urgency to your life, save you from existential malaise.
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