Death poses perhaps the ultimate existential challenge to all of us, given that the desire for immortality can't be accommodated. How might naturalists construe the prospect of personal extinction? What should we anticipate at death? Some suggestions follow in this section.
Death
Articles in this Section
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Critiques the widespread secular misunderstanding of death as a plunge into oblivion.
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Commentary and dialog on "Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity" from Michael Shleyfer, John Urban, and Wayne Stewart.
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There is a remarkable theoretical convergence between Wayne Stewart's "existential passage" and Tom Clark's "generic subjective continuity" as explained on the Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity page.
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This presents an overview of generic subjective continuity and similar views on death and consciousness.
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