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Towlie

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Fri Dec 18, 2020, 03:22 PM Dec 2020

New York Times opinion article, "What is Death?" [View all]

What Is Death?

It's a long article but one claim that stands out to me, and which does a fair job of summing up the author's view, is this:

We do have fuller ways of knowing [beside science]. Who doubts that imagination and intuition and love hold power and capacity beyond what language can describe?

That article is rich in claims worthy of a rational person's criticism.

But to answer the author's question, death is nonexistence like before you were born.

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