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Re:The cave divers who went back for their friends by dTal on Monday May 09, 2016 @11:54AM (#11660756)
I think it's arguable that a battery that can no longer be charged is a "battery". At best it's a "dead battery", and you'd be annoyed if someone sold you the latter as the former. Analogously, I would not call Bob's dead body "Bob", but rather "Bob's corpse".

It's kind of a dumb philosophical argument though. We all know what's really going on, so it's pointless to argue over words.

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Re:The cave divers who went back for their friends by rev_bird on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @12:04PM (#11668189)
It might be (waaay) outside the scope of the usual discussions around here, but I don't know that it's pointless. I'm an atheist, and I'm totally fine with the idea that when I die, that's it, I'm as dead as any other organism.

Still, though, I've got strong opinions about how I want to be "disposed of" when I die. Burial evokes strong emotions for me, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. Even in games like Fallout, I try not to leave corpses just lying in a river or in a shrub or something, even if it was somebody who was just trying to knife-murder me. I accept that it isn't a person anymore, like I said in my previous comment, but I still have a sentimental attachment to the... husk.

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