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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by mirkules on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @12:52AM (#16582435)
It is said that a person dies three deaths:

First, when their body stops functioning. Second, when their body is buried (or cremated). And the third and final death is when their name is uttered for the very last time in human history.

I am fairly confident Stephen Hawking will have only died two deaths.

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by purple-again on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @08:24AM (#16584230)
I was under the impression it was:

1) When your body dies 2) When you the last person who remembers you dies 3) When the last thing you impacted is gone

Now existence has returned to a state as if you had never been at all.

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by mirkules on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @09:57AM (#16584750)
It could be. I first heard my version on a podcast (of course, I forgot which one), but looking around it is attributed to a Stanford professor David Eagleman: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/336070-there-are-three-deat...
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