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Re:Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying hum... by ASalazarMX on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @02:27PM (#30432426)
I've seen this answered as "Do you remember what was like before you were born? Being dead is the same thing".

It couldn't be pure black and emptiness, for example, because we no longer exist to experience it.

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Re:Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying hum... by _Wintermute on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @02:47PM (#30432691)
Reminded me of a quote:

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. - Vladimir Nabokov "

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