Comment by Der_Einzige

Comment by Der_Einzige 2 days ago

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“Choosing to die to avoid suffering does not guarantee non-suffering.”

Either it does or you’re claiming to be religious and implying you know for sure what happens after we die.

Noaidi 2 days ago

I am not stating either the above. I am only stating I don’t know what happens after we die. So to me dying is not a guarantee of some relief of my suffering. It’s just a logical statement. There’s no religion behind it.

Do you know what happens after we die? If you do, can you tell me how you know it?

  • tsimionescu 2 days ago

    > If you do, can you tell me how you know it?

    The other poster responded to what happens, but here is the how do we know part. We understand very well how physics works, up to some small gaps that are irrelevant here. We know that information about the contents of your mind can't be transmitted outside your body in a way that would not be picked up by some of our sensors. People have tried to actually measure if there is any emanation from the body as a person dies, and there simply isn't any, in any spectra. So, there is no possibility of a soul living the body. Plus, any concept of an afterlife has no place where it could happen. There is no place on earth, in the clouds or underground, for an afterlife to take place in.

    So, unless you think all of science is dramatically mistaken, we know with very good certainty that an afterlife is not a real possibility.

  • prmoustache 2 days ago

    > I don’t know what happens after we die.

    It is quite simple actually, you are dead and you as a whole only exist as a memory in other people's brains and your identity as paperwork, tombstones and for those that couldn't refrain from attracting attention history books, old journals artworks and memorials. Your molecules and atoms are disponible for anything else the cycle of nature needs. Expecting anything else is at best delusional.