Questions tagged [death]
Usually a physical death: permanent state after the end of life, where all vital functions stop. Sometimes in a different context, e.g. spiritual death
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Death or Immortality: What Does It Say About Life's Value? [closed]
Imagine if someone had to choose between two options: dying immediately (assuming there is no afterlife or reincarnation), or becoming immortal and eventually being left alone in the endless void ...
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How can I communicate my belief that someone has been "returned" rather than "died/passed away/lost"?
I believe that the body of a living thing is a vessel and the soul exits upon death. I do not believe in a God, but do believe the Universe is unknowable by human beings and so I reserve judgment on ...
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What is the need to achieve anything in life? [duplicate]
What is the need to do anything beyond plainly living, consuming food and water, and occupying some space?
Is it necessary for someone with the capability to use their intellectual or material skills ...
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Would a sentient program have an afterlife when it has been deleted? [closed]
With the premise that what we experience is a base reality.
If we created a simulation inhabited with sentient programs.
Would we be responsible for that programs experience after it was deleted?
Or ...
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Any works that go in depth on the psychological underpinnings of engaging in philosophical inquiry at all?
Any works that attack in a systematic way the fears and hopes etc. that lie under the person who engages in philosophy? For instance, I know that is very plausible to say that basically all religions (...
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Might we have a need to incorporate mortality into our lives, if we cannot reduce the harm of death? [closed]
Even if death is usually bad for those of us who die, perhaps it need
not be bad for us, if we prepare ourselves suitably. This might be
possible if some form of preferentialism is true, and if, by ...
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Under physicalism, should I still be sad if my murdered wife is replaced with a perfect clone?
Context: This question follows up on Under physicalism, can my consciousness reappear in a different body?.
Assume, for the sake of argument, that some form of physicalism is true. Imagine my wife is ...
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What counter arguments are there to the deprivation account of death?
What counter arguments are there to the deprivation account of death?
According to the deprivation account, what is bad about death is the
fact that because one ceases to exist, one becomes deprived ...
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Destroying life versus creating life
Why does society often treat depictions of violence and death, such as in crime reports or war footage, as more acceptable than depictions of human reproduction and intimacy? Both involve fundamental ...
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Supposing my death is not an intrinsic or extrinsic good, should I never engage in acts that will certainly or near certainly result in my death?
Supposing my death is not an intrinsic or extrinsic good, should I never engage in acts that will certainly or near certainly result in my death? It's not obviously a trivial inference, but it seems ...
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Are mind and body separate entities? [closed]
When I try to commit suicide, I back off. My brain wants to die, my body resists. What hope does my body see that my brain cannot? Why one resists the other?
Maybe my body wants to die a painless ...
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Is there any school of thought or ideology that explicitly advocate suicide?
I was curious if there's any ideology that does not criticize suicide or even advocate it?
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What is the core argument for anti-natalism in this paper by Jiwon Hwang?
I stumbled upon this paper written by Jiwoon Hwang. It's about why it is better to cease existing. He uses David Benatar's assymetry to come to a pro-mortalist conclusion; but unlike Harman, he ...
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What is most important in life? [closed]
So my journey with philosophy has been a perilous one with exestential crisis after exestential crisis, but my latest one is a particularly gnarly one.
Naturally I have an epicurean view of death ( ...
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If something is temporally and spatially vague, then can it be individuated by its absence?
1 If something is temporally and spatially vague, then can it become nothing?
I am thinking that it cannot be entirely individuated from its absence while it exists, because e.g. the space where it ...
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