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Are you still dead after Cremation?
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The question you have to ask is this, Is being alive the same as existing?
You continue to exist, just in a different form. You are as much a part of the Universe as the star from which your matter, and everyone else' was formed. While the matter that makes up your being obviously changes to a different, or likely, several different states, that matter still exists, the energy that makes it up (to use a pedestrian phrase) will continue to exist.
Of course that view would change based on your understanding of the self or conciousness. If your conciousness, or a soul, if you will, exists as seperate to the physical form, where is it and where does it go? To the mind of the Universe? To another plane of existence? If that uniqueness is inextricably bound to your matter, and the way it comes together, then it will continue to exist as part of the Universe which it already exists.
I prefer to entertain the thought that the Universe is in fact a rather large entity which feeds off our life's experience, nourishing it so it can grow and expand and become more powerful. To what end? Only it knows.
I like to live on the edge of the Universe.
Get it? On the edge?
Now, this is going to sound like I'm trolling or something, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to get flamed for this, but here goes.
Ok, so, after you die, and you've been cremated and stuff, are you still considered dead?
What I mean is, is that "Death is the term used to describe the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism." - Wikipedia.
So if you're cremated, and you have no body, then how can you be dead? Since being dead is a state of the body. No body = Not dead.
Does this make any sense? The reason I ask is because I just had a really stupid conversation about it earlier, and I'm bored, so I thought I'd ask you guys.
Hah...yeah. Can't wait to see some smart ass responses
You are NULL. Not dead or alive.
which is a fate worse than death.
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
You know an inside secret of the cremation industry is that about 1 in 200 people actually get "woken up" by the cremation process, because they still had minute brain activity and weren't all the way dead. By the time the workers realize, it's too late to do anything so they get burned alive in agony.
In Germany they have a law that all dead bodies have to be tested with a machine that checks for traces of electrical activity in the brain.
Any chance of that in English? Thanks.
You should finish all your posts with that sentence.
Not unless you're a pheonix, then you just rise up again.
Okay on a similar subject, this may make me sound stupid. However here it goes! 
There are more humans on this planet compared to years and years ago, so is the mass of the earth getting heavier? People die and rot, but does that expand the earth in anyway? So essentially what I am asking, is the earth always growing in size?
There are more humans on this planet compared to years and years ago, so is the mass of the earth getting heavier? People die and rot, but does that expand the earth in anyway? So essentially what I am asking, is the earth always growing in size?
Okay on a similar subject, this may make me sound stupid. However here it goes!
There are more humans on this planet compared to years and years ago, so is the mass of the earth getting heavier? People die and rot, but does that expand the earth in anyway? So essentially what I am asking, is the earth always growing in size?
Yes, as you can tell from where old houses are at which the ground has built up past the bottom of the door. However this is less to do with people dying and more to do with debris coming from space.
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Okay on a similar subject, this may make me sound stupid. However here it goes!
There are more humans on this planet compared to years and years ago, so is the mass of the earth getting heavier? People die and rot, but does that expand the earth in anyway? So essentially what I am asking, is the earth always growing in size?
Serious question?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_mass
Okay on a similar subject, this may make me sound stupid. However here it goes!
There are more humans on this planet compared to years and years ago, so is the mass of the earth getting heavier? People die and rot, but does that expand the earth in anyway? So essentially what I am asking, is the earth always growing in size?
This is why we discourage you thinking 5UB, terrible things happen.
Does interest me! I should read up more on it I guess.
I know, me thinking isn't a good thing!
What?