After Death..

The Doctor wrote: tardis wrote: Besides, I brook no competition in the time debate. I am, after all, the TARDIS... (and for those of you who don't know, it stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space)   Yes, but I am the Doctor, so that makes you my b****.

And where would you be without me, hmm?

The Doctor wrote:   Unfortunately for all of you, once I am dead, all of you will also disappear as you are all just a figment of my fevered, drunken imagination.

A subjective idealist perhaps?

A very interesting philosphy. Personally, I lean more towards phenomenalism though.

tardis wrote: Besides, I brook no competition in the time debate. I am, after all, the TARDIS... (and for those of you who don't know, it stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space)

Psychedelia wrote: i disagree with all this immortality would be bad malarcky. I dont believe you'd become eternally bored and have nothing to do. The world is forever changing and there is so much you could do, i dont think you would ever come to a point where there is literally nothing left.

The Star Trek episode "Requiem for Methuselah" says that immortality is a curse. If Star Trek says it, it must be so.

tardis wrote: Who says we will have a concept of boredom, or even have the same bodies? We know nothing about immortality after death, and in what fashion we would experience it. There's no way we would know that we would end up living on the earth, or even exist in the same universe.

Psychedelia wrote: i disagree with all this immortality would be bad malarcky. I dont believe you'd become eternally bored and have nothing to do. The world is forever changing and there is so much you could do, i dont think you would ever come to a point where there is literally nothing left.

Edited by darqdean - June 18 2007 at 09:44

i disagree with all this immortality would be bad malarcky. I dont believe you'd become eternally bored and have nothing to do. The world is forever changing and there is so much you could do, i dont think you would ever come to a point where there is literally nothing left.

An old fart wrote: The boredom of life or the joy of it depends on how much chances you have to choose how you live your life (how do you spend your time and with whom). I don't see any reason why a possible life after death would be automatically and by definition boring, because it lasts forever, if we have a chance to DO something interesting to us and avoid doing unpleasant things. I am perfectly aware that I can never listen (not to mention find) all the music that I would love, see enough films, read enough books, meet enough pleasant people, have enough sex (why other religions than Islam don't promise enough sex after death?), etc. in my lifetime, so I suppose I will still remain "hungry" for life at the moment of dying. To have a chance to continue doing that kind of things after death, that would be my heaven.

Faced with an infinite amount of time, you will eventually run out of entertaining things to do. 

The boredom of life or the joy of it depends on how much chances you have to choose how you live your life (how do you spend your time and with whom). I don't see any reason why a possible life after death would be automatically and by definition boring, because it lasts forever, if we have a chance to DO something interesting to us and avoid doing unpleasant things. I am perfectly aware that I can never listen (not to mention find) all the music that I would love, see enough films, read enough books, meet enough pleasant people, have enough sex (why other religions than Islam don't promise enough sex after death?), etc. in my lifetime, so I suppose I will still remain "hungry" for life at the moment of dying. To have a chance to continue doing that kind of things after death, that would be my heaven.

DECOMPOSION !

1.Death begins when the heart stops beating. Deprived of oxygen, a cascade of cellular death commences. It begins with brain cells and finishes with the skin cells. Death is therefore a process, rather than an event.
2.Many kinds of organisms live by feeding on dead bodies. In the process, their activities result in the decomposition of the body and the recycling of nutrients. The dominant groups of organisms involved in decomposition are bacteria, flies, beetles, mites and moths. Other animals, mainly parasitoid wasps, predatory beetles and predatory flies, feed on the animals that feed on the corpse. A dead body is therefore an ecosystem of its own, in which different fauna arrive and depart from the corpse at different times.

http://www.deathonline.net/decomposition/