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STOP! Let's Re-Examine "Death"

rhinefire

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In death are there atoms, electrons, cells, matter, gravity, light, motion, mass? Man uses the phrase "life after death". I say "death after life". The two must be considered separate in every definition. Note, not one single thing about death has every been documented. Some will counter with episodes of people dying and being brought back to living. I say dying is dying and "dying" never occurs if one is brought back to living. So, when I say death occurs it is the final chapter so toss that argument before you start to type.
In death you are blind, deaf, dumb, thoughtless, without sensation of any kind. You have nothing to hold or see or smell or taste. You have no emotion. The "tool" we refer to as the human body has ceased to function and will remain waste matter forever. Like fruits from the tree, once fallen they eventually disappear in to oblivion. To many this cold fact gives rise to fear driven ideas of "something" does materialize in death and this is referred to as "heaven" and "hell" in most cultures throughout time.
I don't say this is my belief rather only to prompt responses knowing that no one including me knows the first thing about being dead. Isn't it humorous that while we cease to function after being alive we still are required to pay taxes!
 
I never trust the Atom's . . . they make up everything.
 
In death there is no "you" to experience blindness deafness etc. just as there wasn't before life. The body won't remain "waste" matter, its constituent atoms and molecules go to make up other substances and entities. We're composed of the byproducts of stars, like everything around us. The universe is a gigantic recycling facility.
 
Whatever generates consciousness in the brain won't be around in a cohesive form. "You" won't be blind, deaf etc because to experience those requires awareness.
 
rhinefire said:
In death are there atoms, electrons, cells, matter, gravity, light, motion, mass?
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Is a corpse composed of matter?

Note, not one single thing about death has every been documented.
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Do you mean afterlife? Death is the well known, and fully documented, state of not living.

"dying" never occurs if one is brought back to living.
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That depends on what definition of dead is used. There's medically dead, there's legally dead, there's brain dead, there's dead dead, all kinds of dead. In the first two, one can easily come back. Brain death means you're a vegetable, and only your body is alive through life support, and dead dead is just dead.

Isn't it humorous that while we cease to function after being alive we still are required to pay taxes!
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How many bowls did you smoke before typing this up?
 
There is nothing in life that can be attached to being dead. Some think we somehow exist in a heaven where I guess we sit down with family and friends and our pet. If there is anything to being dead it has to be in a separate or different dimension. I think even the Bible may agree with that. Who wants to spend eternity with Aunt Ethel who always needed a bath and Uncle Hank who farted continuously?
 
rhinefire said:
In death are there atoms, electrons, cells, matter, gravity, light, motion, mass? Man uses the phrase "life after death". I say "death after life". The two must be considered separate in every definition. Note, not one single thing about death has every been documented. Some will counter with episodes of people dying and being brought back to living. I say dying is dying and "dying" never occurs if one is brought back to living. So, when I say death occurs it is the final chapter so toss that argument before you start to type.
In death you are blind, deaf, dumb, thoughtless, without sensation of any kind. You have nothing to hold or see or smell or taste. You have no emotion. The "tool" we refer to as the human body has ceased to function and will remain waste matter forever. Like fruits from the tree, once fallen they eventually disappear in to oblivion. To many this cold fact gives rise to fear driven ideas of "something" does materialize in death and this is referred to as "heaven" and "hell" in most cultures throughout time.
I don't say this is my belief rather only to prompt responses knowing that no one including me knows the first thing about being dead. Isn't it humorous that while we cease to function after being alive we still are required to pay taxes!
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Are you arguing about the non-existence of the soul?
 
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There is nothing in life that can be attached to being dead.
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Other than it being definitive by extension? Beyond that, there's awareness. Though not universally, as you so ably demonstrate.

Some think we somehow exist in a heaven where I guess we sit down with family and friends and our pet. If there is anything to being dead it has to be in a separate or different dimension. I think even the Bible may agree with that. Who wants to spend eternity with Aunt Ethel who always needed a bath and Uncle Hank who farted continuously?
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Flatulence and body odour needn't concern the incorporeal.
 
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