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How is death best explained in both religious and scientific terms?Would a person go to hell for commiting suicide?if so why?and why is suicide a sin?
Well since I don't believe there is a god, and therefore no concept of hell, there is of course no reason to think suicide sends a person to an imaginary place.
Death is essentially the cessation of your life functions. Which, if you think about it, are an awful lot like your life functions during the war of 1812.....non-existent.
Well since I don't believe there is a god, and therefore no concept of hell, there is of course no reason to think suicide sends a person to an imaginary place.
Death is essentially the cessation of your life functions. Which, if you think about it, are an awful lot like your life functions during the war of 1812.....non-existent.
Hmm interesting they say everything in life has a opposite(good,evil,right,left,straight,gay,man,wom an,dark,light,night,day,right,wrong)And ONE CANNOT create the other or exist without the other its like formed laws of nature. Which makes me think death is best explained in finding the definition of life,it probaly is non-existent,but why?and how?And I too dont believe in God
Hmm interesting they say everything in life has a opposite(good,evil,right,left,straight,gay,man,wom an,dark,light,night,day,right,wrong)And ONE CANNOT create the other or exist without the other its like formed laws of nature. Which makes me think death is best explained in finding the definition of life,it probaly is non-existent,but why?and how?And I too dont believe in God
I think some of those are false dichotomies, personally. I can be dusk, I can be bisexual, I can be hermaphrodite, and I can be partially correct. The laws of nature allow for all of those to exist.
I think perhaps a better explanation of death is that the particular configuration of molecules that make you, "you", are no longer coherently intertwined to make the organism we know as "you". Just as that particular configuration didn't exist before you were conceived. And that precise configuration likely will never exist again.
Or in other words....I don't see death as anything more than the fundamental change of your molecules into a different configuration.
I think some of those are false dichotomies, personally. I can be dusk, I can be bisexual, I can be hermaphrodite, and I can be partially correct. The laws of nature allow for all of those to exist.
I think perhaps a better explanation of death is that the particular configuration of molecules that make you, "you", are no longer coherently intertwined to make the organism we know as "you". Just as that particular configuration didn't exist before you were conceived. And that precise configuration likely will never exist again.
Or in other words....I don't see death as anything more than the fundamental change of your molecules into a different configuration.
But based on biology your molecules have vanished,how can death contain any type of existence?
What about the configuration of molecules that were transformed to produce your consciousness? Once in that form what happens to them???
What about the configuration of molecules that is a piece of paper? What happens to them if I set the paper on fire? They are simply no longer organized in the same way.
Your molecules will continue to exist wherever they happen to end up.
Your consciousness is an emergent property of a particular configuration of matter and energy called your body and brain and the process of life within it. When biological death occurs, there is nothing for your consciousness to emerge FROM anymore. It is a non sequitur to ask what happens to your consciousness when you die, just as it's a non sequitur to ask what happens to a piece of paper when it burns. It's just that you don't care about the paper nearly so much as you care about your consciousness. You are so invested in your continued existence that you are tempted to succumb to special pleading about yourself. It's okay for the paper to become smoke and ash; it's not okay for you to become wormfood.
You just need to get over the ego inflation that you are immortal. You're not. When you're dead, your dead.
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