Could we be considered immortal? Seeing as our energy is passed on in one form or another. When we get buirried we decompose and the released nutrients help other animals/plants to grow ^sorry if that didnt make sense.. just a thought
I don't think you can call that what you describe immortality, cause all the elements that the body consisted of are no longer alive.
Mortality means you are subject to death, so immortality means you are exempt from death. I've wondered if immortality would also exempt a person from aging. Imagine having to spend almost all of enternity old and feeble.
We are immortal. In they way you mentioned Harsesis and in a way that our consciousnesses will continue to be self aware even after leaving the physical body composed as a human.
Bebelina, I wasn't going there cause I thought he wanted to narrow it down to the physical part. there is a Greek story about someone the gods granted immortality, but he had forgotten to ask for eternal youth as well. Bummer.
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Yup. Actually, we're not sure what happens to our electromagnetic field after we die. Perhaps it escapes the body? Many people propose that this is in fact your thoughts, soul, all of the contents of your brain minus the chemicals of your brain.
Ya, this always interested me. Because I know that energy cannot just "disappear" - so I always wondered what happened after we died, does it just float off and become part of the wind? Freakyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Yep. I agree death is death. You may stop thinking but it doesnt mean that the atoms and other subatomic particles that make up you are gone. You still excist in one form or another. http://www.lifegems.com/secondary/whatisLG.htm Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Perhaps we never die because we never really even exist. If I died tonight, would the person I was at ten die with me? No. She's been dead for years. If I died in seventy years, would the person I am now die on that day? No. She's dying this second. I won't be what I am now as soon as I post this. So what is "I"? I think, therefore I am. But what am I? Am I the collection of my thoughts, emotions and memories? I think so. And when my thoughts change, when I feel other things, when I forget those memories, the "I" that "I" am now will die and be no more. Perhaps death is only a more permanent facet of something that is happening every second. "I" die, and "I" am reborn. When "I" finally die, physically, "I" will no longer be able to be reborn. Perhaps it's not death that is to be feared, but not being able to rise again, pheonix like, from the ashes. I am dying now. I have been dying since I was born. Now I realize that my whole life has been an accumulation of plans and comforts in the face of eternal nothingness. And yet I don't fear death. I die every day. I fear not being reborn. I fear stagnation.....and death is the ultimate stagnation.
