“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.”
Carl Sagan
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I am not much interested in afterlives. The concept is not meaningful. If time is an illusion the entire chain of organisms can be thought of as a single entity.
The only thing about us really worth immortality is conscious awareness, and that is common to us all—it is what we are in fact, and it can not die.
WilliamFleming
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May 30, 2018
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Dying is like last of the ninth, two out, and you just swung and missed the third strike. Game over. No extra innings.
nicknotes
Level 8
May 30, 2018
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I'm sure you're right, but as a former Englishman, the extended basketball meatphor is a bit confusing... can I have that in, say, cricket? 
@moNOtheist That was a baseball simile, American cricket lol
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