For those who are affraid fo death, please leave this thread and move to a happier thread. Now that we got just the people who keep an open mind about death, let me ask you a personal question. If you could become any chemical when you die, what chemical would you most like to be?
depends how i die, if i'm dying at a ripe old age, surrounded by my friends and family, i'd turn into solid gold, to reward them for looking after me even when i began to lose control of my bowels. if i die through foul play and my murderer is close by, id like to turn instantly and violently into something incredibly corrosive. i currently have an agreement with a friend that if we both get something terminal, we'll have a sword fight on the lip of an active volcano. if that happens, something that would explode spectacularly and colourfully if i fall in.
first off, lets clearify what we're talking about. when the body i currently occupy dies, any of several things may or may not happen to the me that occupies it. becoming a sole chemical substance is in obsurdity based on the improbability of its possissing a sufficient information storage and transfer capacity. it is not greatly probable that the true self will immediately migrate to another physical host of any kind. other and more interisting possibilities however, just might. one is the possibility of some sort of rest and recreation place for disembodied spirits to hang out, while waiting in line for new hosts to be born.
