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Thinking about your own death
How often do you think of your own death? Most people, perhaps intuitively, think that something perceivable is going to happen to them after their own death (i.e. they will go to some other dimension/plane, they will reincarnate, they will hang out in a jacuzzi with the Big JHC drinking wine all night long, et cetera). So far, so good.
It's not bizarre to think that something will happen to you, but it's somewhat bizarre that so many different cultures imply that some sort of life-after-death exists, and that whatever happens after death, it's not "the end".
Thus, I think we could draw one of the following conclusions from this: either there is indeed an afterlife (life itself is already bizarre, why wouldn't there be another life just as absurd as ours?), or we're so important to ourselves that we can't even think of what it would be like not to exist. I tend to favour the latter due to my affinity with materialism and the impossibility of going anywhere my body isn't, but no matter how hard I think about it, death seems to be as puzzling as being thrown in a black hole: if you ceased to perceive time, wouldn't your mental activities cease as well? In that sense, you'd tend to imagine that you'd be stuck within your last memory, but that memory has to span for some time, and if you cannot perceive time, what are you going to retain in your perception? Moreover, reason why I thought about it in the first place, can you imagine something you can't talk about, like an absolute death?
This morning, I felt relief in knowing that I wasn't alone [pdf - Imagination and Immortality by Shaun Nichols] in most of my pondering, and I decided it would be a nice topic to discuss here with you guys.
How often do you think about a possible absolute death?
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