http://richardholden.net/posts/imagining-death/ A blog about science and words. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:29:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://richardholden.net/posts/imagining-death/comment-page-1/#comment-2720 sTrom Sun, 10 May 2009 01:41:00 +0000 http://richardholden.net/posts/imagining-death/#comment-2720 sometimes i think about it .. i think it could be like sleeping phase with no dreams.. you live but you dont know a thing about yourself:) sometimes i think about it .. i think it could be like sleeping phase with no dreams.. you live but you dont know a thing about yourself:)

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]]> http://richardholden.net/posts/imagining-death/comment-page-1/#comment-755 Richard Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:26:57 +0000 http://richardholden.net/posts/imagining-death/#comment-755 Sorry for making everybody all morbid. Sorry for making everybody all morbid.

]]> http://richardholden.net/posts/imagining-death/comment-page-1/#comment-754 Melissa Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:03:42 +0000 http://richardholden.net/posts/imagining-death/#comment-754 That post could have been titled "Why Melissa is extremely scared of death" - it pretty much sums up what's been worrying me since I was old enough to realise I existed (about 8 I think). Somehow, knowing that when it happens there won't even be a "me" to notice isn't very reassuring. That post could have been titled “Why Melissa is extremely scared of death” – it pretty much sums up what’s been worrying me since I was old enough to realise I existed (about 8 I think). Somehow, knowing that when it happens there won’t even be a “me” to notice isn’t very reassuring.

]]> http://richardholden.net/posts/imagining-death/comment-page-1/#comment-628 Monika Bulsiewicz Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:40:49 +0000 http://richardholden.net/posts/imagining-death/#comment-628 Wow, great post. I have never heard anyone who could express this problem more clearly. When I try to imagine what it would be like to 'be dead', I only realise that I am unable to picture it. Instead, I come to think that it wouldn't feel like anything at all because my self-consciousness would simply cease to exist. Both of those facts: inability to imagine life after death and realisation that my ego will not even exist any more when I'm dead can be difficult to embrace at times. Wow, great post. I have never heard anyone who could express this problem more clearly. When I try to imagine what it would be like to ‘be dead’, I only realise that I am unable to picture it. Instead, I come to think that it wouldn’t feel like anything at all because my self-consciousness would simply cease to exist. Both of those facts: inability to imagine life after death and realisation that my ego will not even exist any more when I’m dead can be difficult to embrace at times.

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