Do you believe that some/all humans have some sort of metaphysical after-life?

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I'm with Humphrey.  When the body dies, the person dies and there is no more experience of any sort. 

Hey Torie, nice "aum" ligature at the botton of your posts.  Can I ask why you chose it?

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It has always seemed to me that the closest analogue from experience to death is being put under full anesthesia for a surgery.  That stuff basically numbs all the perceptual receptors of the neural network, and so, unlike dreaming or even dreamless sleep, there is no awareness whatsoever, even of the subtlest kind, of the passage of time or anything like that.  It's a great oddity that, when one regains consciousness from being put under general anesthesia, one has the feeling that regaing consciousness was practically instantaneous.  So, like death, under general anesthesia, we have nothing we can call "experience."

I guess the reason we all find death so daunting is that the body resists death as much and for as long as it can.  But, that doesn't change the fact that it's coming for all of us.  On the upside, I have no recollection of being unhappy about the "state" of my "being" before I was born, so I don't have any particular reason to dread what "it will be like" when I die.