No worries, Leo, I didn't take it wrong. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I simply wanted to explain that's there can be more than one reason for not fearing death - and to explain my own very personal reasons for not fearing it myself.
You missed the point of the necessity of the cells from original body to actually be responsible for every cell in the body. Freezing blood and using it for a living body of another organism is just as having a donor organ.
Your post is wrong on so many levels..First, what do you consider death? For me it is the permanent loss of consiousness, e.g if enough brain cells die that's it you are dead..Even if someone clones you and even it somehow replicates memories to the clone it will still be a new person! Yes but the resulting offspring has different DNA, a combination of both.. So again it is still a totally different person. So the father and mother die and there is no continuum!
I'm not stupid and would not tread where I knew a problem might be found. I'd rather live my life carefully and prepaired for things that might arise. We all take a risk everytime we drive our vehicles, fly on a plane, take walks on public roads and a hole host of other things. That doesn't mean that we are trying to kill ourselves by knowingly getting into a car and driving it are we? I'm just saying that if my life should end, through whatever means, I am not affraid to die.
i always considered myself a wimp. i always though i would cry like a baby and start praying to god. when i was actually faced with the situation things were very different than what i imagined.
That's true, but not very encouraging when one is nearly making that transformation. I mean, what if you have no children?
The OP is suggesting that since a sperm cell and egg are living cells from a parent, then as long as the child lives then the parents cannot truly die. This was carried over fro another thread where I ridiculed the idea. For or Against this "concept" (please note quotation marks).
it seems to me that the result would be loss of consciousness for that genetic line, perhaps one can experience regardless of time, thus revert back to any past ancestors in past genetic line who have offspring alive currently. That is my best guess. Perhaps the true death is not having children...
