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by goolz 54 days 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.
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I’ll answer that question for you for free. Here’s what happens:
I medically died a couple years back. I don’t remember a thing, so perhaps you are right. Still curious.
I'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.

The concept of “medically died” is kind of ridiculous. Are you alive? Then you weren’t dead.
It 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.
I 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.
That 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.
"Semantics" is literally "what words mean" so yea, arguing over semantics is pretty important! Not something to dismiss.
I 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.

Life without death would lack urgency. I do not know what happens when I die, ergo I am curious. Not mutually exclusive.
Thanks, I get it.
You have already been dead. It feels exactly like it felt before you were born.
It is funny how concerned and uncomfortable people are with death, but how little they think about pre-life, if at all
This is conjecture. No one knows.
It is the simplest explanation. It is the conjeture that it feels any different that needs a proof.
Just like "life after death" but entire religions have sprung up around knowing this unknowable thing.
I don’t get this perspective at all. Why die? Do things forever.
How about if I chase you down the street with a stick? I mean, to impart urgency to your life, save you from existential malaise.