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Originally Posted by pianoperformer  if such a thing doesn't exist, it means that there is nothing after death. |
That assumes that before death and after death are different things. You don't exist any more or less before you die than after you die, or before you were born for that matter. It's just an illusion, much like how a child will say that a tall skinny glass has more water in it than a short fat glass, not realizing that two different shapes can have the same volume and that the amount of water is the same. "You" don't exist as a discrete entity, you exist only in relation to the entire universe. Perhaps some factors are more noticeable than others, but everything affects you and is affected by you, effectively creating that which is you. Since you exist only in relation to the universe, you and the rest of the universe are in truth a single entity that can be intellectually divided into discrete quanta, but not truly divided. So how can "you" die, if there is no you? You live after death as you did before it, as a composite action of the universe.