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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by sriram_malhar on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:57PM (#28151203)
My approach to death is this: I am an insignificant drop, and will eventually merge into an ocean of molecules, to be rearranged into other drops.

In that sense, there is nothing to fear, nothing to solve. If the manner in which one is dying is painful, then I should have a means of getting to a quick end.

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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by xvector on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:51AM (#28152094)
You won't merge into anything, you will become nothing. No rest, no respite, nothing. Your body might "merge", but that's irrelevant.

Your consciousness - who you are - will end, truly, once and for all. You will never again experience hopes, dreams, memories, or love. You won't experience anything at all for the rest of eternity.

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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by 8note on Thursday August 12, 2021 @04:18AM (#28153544)
You sound a lot more confident than you should be, considering the lack of data.
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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by xvector on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:49PM (#28159987)
As far as we understand, consciousness is an emergent phenomenon based off of your neural activity. We can state with certainty that your consciousness ends when your brain does.
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