wolfy42 posted...Sadly so many ways this could not be true.
For instance if a universe exists for every possible choice (Even the direction an atom travels etc), then there are countless copies of you that are living the exact same lives, there are also ones the at just a bit behind and ahead of you. If you die in this life, there are countless versions that didn't die in other universes, and your consciousness just continues in them.
Or tech advances to the point where we digitalize memories and can transfer them between bodies or even have them in digital created universe that both last forever AND proceed forward through time at a much slower rate (according to your consciousness), much like how dreams can seem to be hours/days long but last only a few moments.
Or the universe just exists in a constant loop and when you die in this loop, you just pop back up in the next loop reliving everything over and over again forever.
Or we are all just 1 person with segregated memories and every time you die you live as another person (so while you may not have the memories of this life, you will continue to live lives over and over forever with no way to stop the madness).
There are plenty of other theories/ways that we could basically never end up dead....hopefully none of them are true. Even many religions believe in afterlives though that are supposedly "eternal" and to me anything eternal sounds like hell.
Normally, eternal sounds bad But I can think of a few ways it wouldnt be too bad
Vampire_Chicken posted...
Everyone who's ever lived has died, everyone who is alive is going to die. I really don't see how you can deny the reality of that; you'd have to be one hell of a fucking statistical aberration to avoid it. Whatever the nature of the change may be, that change is going to happen to you sooner or later.
I'd love to believe in "afterwards", but to honest I see death as simply the cessation of electrochemical activity in the brain and any hopes that the human personality somehow survives that is wishful thinking.
While I dont think well have the technology anytime soon, there could eventually be technology that lets us stay alive forever How to do this would depend, though