Are you still dead after Cremation?
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Not unless you put the ashes in a jar full of liver.
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You would still class it as been 'dead' because you, before been cremated had a heart beat. Even though you are now a pile of ashes you were once 'alive' so therefore now 'dead'.
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Hmmm the op is on my ignore list, must be a serial offender.
lol kwerk,,,oh wait its not kwerk
strangely enough i used to think it would hurt getting cremated when i was a kid,but then how can it,because your allready dead,this is the way i want to go now,sod getting chucked into the hole into the ground
. i would like my ashes put into a rocket and blasted into space,but i dout i could afford that
On another note people who say they don't want to get burnt will all end up that way anyway when the earth is engulfed by the sun one day
strangely enough i used to think it would hurt getting cremated when i was a kid
,but then how can it,because your allready dead,this is the way i want to go now,sod getting chucked into the hole into the ground. i would like my ashes put into a rocket and blasted into space,but i dout i could afford thatOn another note people who say they don't want to get burnt will all end up that way anyway when the earth is engulfed by the sun one day
Thanks OP for a bit of thinking there
The answer is that right now I am alive. When the universe finally forces me to shuffle off my mortal coil, I shall be dead. Once my organs have been harvested, and the best cuts of me have gone to the dog kennels for them to eat, and I am cremated... I will no longer exist, having been destroyed - so my state of life or death is not relevant.
The answer is that right now I am alive. When the universe finally forces me to shuffle off my mortal coil, I shall be dead. Once my organs have been harvested, and the best cuts of me have gone to the dog kennels for them to eat, and I am cremated... I will no longer exist, having been destroyed - so my state of life or death is not relevant.
Thanks OP for a bit of thinking there
The answer is that right now I am alive. When the universe finally forces me to shuffle off my mortal coil, I shall be dead. Once my organs have been harvested, and the best cuts of me have gone to the dog kennels for them to eat, and I am cremated... I will no longer exist, having been destroyed - so my state of life or death is not relevant.
Matter is not destroyed, only changed....
Here's a fun fact: the cremation doesn't turn you to ash; the grinding of your charred bones afterwards does.
Matter is not destroyed, only changed....
Indeed we're all made of stars - but it ceases to be in an arrangement that could be readily recognised as me, hence I cease to exist.
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Reading all this is quite entertaining.
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That depends on how you define self and whether consciousness is a product of the corporeal state or if the corporeal state is simply a temporary vessel for that consciousness.....and so on and so on.....
That depends on how you define self and whether consciousness is a product of the corporeal state or if the corporeal state is simply a temporary vessel for that consciousness.....and so on and so on.....
Yeah... the Heath Ledger/Joker picture pokes a hole in my argument too. His physical body is long gone, but clearly we all recognise that as Heath Ledger... and he's certainly not alive... likewise the Joker never was alive...