TalkBack: The Meaning of Death

DEATH has been classified as a phenomenon we living can never understand. Fortunately experimentation is not necessary to derive "The Meaning Of Death"!

Firstly it is curious (but not miraculous) that we all just don't die. Instantly. Our bodies and brains are like a massively parallel computer running a highly complex computer program called DNA. DNA contains roughly 4,000,000,000 bases, or individual bits of code.

DNA is a 1,000,000,000 line computer program, running in each of the billions of cells in our bodies. Staying alive depends on DNA software, containing a billion lines of code, running correctly on billions of computers (our cells).

If our DNA was as unreliable as Microsoft Windows, we'd be dead before we could gasp the terminal words: "Unexpected Error: General Protection Fault".

The Afterlife?

There is no "afterlife", or heaven or hell for computer programs, viruses, beetles, pigs, dinosaurs - or humans.



Death is the irredeemable loss of consciousness. When your life ceases and your body rots, you enter a state of non-existence; similar to the previous 15,000,000,000 years of the Universe's lifetime ... -which were also without you. Religion's idea of the immortality of the soul is a hoax. Think of a computer. Once the computer has been utterly destroyed, say by cremation, it will never run any software ever again. Ever.

One fine day you are shopping. You feel great. Life is good. As you attempt to cross the busy street a pretty lass/hunky fella catches your beady eye. "Oh my!" you gasp in lustful admiration as you step out in front of that number 60 bus, and then...






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From:	I've Been Ripped Off	Subject:	Mislead	2001-04-15 19:50:47
From:	Knor	Subject:	afterlife	2001-04-25 02:33:42
From:	I've Been Ripped Off	Subject:	It's the EGO	2001-06-09 11:12:44
From:	<<<***The SpeCtre***>>>	Subject:	Afterlife	2001-07-10 19:19:33
From:	I've Been Ripped Off	Subject:	Evidence	2001-07-13 20:59:57
From:	No no no - I been ripped off!	Subject:	Evidence.....	2001-07-17 16:58:37
From:	I've Been Ripped Off	Subject:	The right to believe	2001-07-18 20:25:09
From:	foffo	Subject:	Death	2001-08-03 14:34:32
From:	I have NOT been ripped off!	Subject:	The OJ question....	2001-08-03 21:45:22
From:	Jeff	Subject:	Proof that prayer doesn't work	2001-08-21 16:43:00
From:	I've Been Ripped Off	Subject:	futility	2001-08-27 16:49:37
From:	Jessie	Subject:	Ponder this...	2001-09-17 21:27:37
From:	Jessie	Subject:	Ponder this...	2001-09-17 21:28:08
From:	Jessie	Subject:	The Big one	2001-09-17 21:46:01
From:	Jessie	Subject:	The Big one	2001-09-17 21:51:57
From:	Jessie	Subject:	Last one for now	2001-09-17 22:00:05
From:	snail	Subject:	I agree with Jeff	2001-12-04 18:11:30
From:	An	Subject:	The Meaning of Death	2001-12-08 06:17:15
From:	Micah	Subject:	It's the concept	2002-09-14 01:41:51
From:	Carl Rofe	Subject:	Afterlife	2002-09-24 20:09:16
From:	Carl Rofe	Subject:	Statement about freedom of speech	2002-09-24 21:18:47
From:	Eduardo Chang	Subject:	The Beauty Of Death	2003-01-10 17:14:50
From:	Eduardo Chang	Subject:	The Beauty of Death (Cont)	2003-01-10 17:15:35
From:	Eduardo Chang	Subject:	The Beauty of Death (Cont 2)	2003-01-10 17:17:08
From:	Eduardo Chang	Subject:	Afterlife	2003-01-11 02:05:46
From:	I've Been Ripped Off	Subject:	Another Ego Victim	2003-02-09 10:15:08
From:	l	Subject:	death and the z axis	2003-04-02 01:31:46
From:	maria	Subject:	hmmmm	2003-05-23 13:49:18
From:	maria	Subject:	one more thing	2003-05-23 13:58:18
From:	I've been ripped off	Subject:	Human/Machine	2003-06-08 14:06:58
From:	Clayton Carter	Subject:	When I die I want a pony	2003-09-05 18:32:15
From:	sakuden	Subject:	death	2003-10-27 09:51:01
From:	Clayton Carter	Subject:	back from the dead	2003-11-07 13:42:53
From:	Ivan	Subject:	afterlife	2003-11-12 04:47:23
From:	sickboy	Subject:	just a thought	2003-12-17 17:34:05
From:	sickboy	Subject:	just a thought	2003-12-17 17:41:55
From:	Smnp7	Subject:	This can't be right.	2004-01-22 04:29:11
From:	Speedster	Subject:	HAHA	2004-01-22 05:10:35
From:	Dakota	Subject:	Death	2004-03-08 02:02:46
From:	shane	Subject:	death	2004-04-12 00:57:10
From:	jerry	Subject:	the most important question	2004-06-27 23:55:06
From:	Aging Christian	Subject:	Your website and all it entails	2004-07-13 19:19:37
From:	Kyason	Subject:	So u want to know 'THE MEANING OF LIFE'	2004-07-31 12:51:24
From:	Jessie	Subject:	Death	2005-01-19 01:01:16
From:	Lloyd	Subject:	Eternal Life	2005-01-30 06:54:37
From:	Ramtin	Subject:	The Big One	2005-03-16 14:41:34
From:	Kali	Subject:	ONCE again What I've Read	2005-03-20 03:19:24
From:	frank	Subject:	re: I've been ripped off	2005-05-09 11:54:17
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From:	Courty	Subject:	it's very beautiful over there	2005-07-12 05:18:44
From:	bob	Subject:	this website	2005-11-27 13:45:09
From:	Muslimka	Subject:	you're not right!	2006-02-20 07:34:00
From:	Rob	Subject:	death	2006-06-13 17:23:39
From:	Jacques Fasquelle	Subject:	belief in God	2006-06-26 06:18:45
From:	stranger	Subject:	What?	2006-10-10 06:57:41
From:	johnny appleseed	Subject:	im still alive	2007-02-25 07:26:14
From:	Adeleke Fakoya, PhD	Subject:	death, afterlife, judgement	2007-03-24 17:35:02
From:	Jessica	Subject:	The universe is too perfect	2007-04-26 05:17:04
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	In reply to Knor: There is no concrete evidence for the unaccountable absence of pixies and elves either. But unless you have powerful evidence for supernatural phenomena - like life after death - then there is no reason to believe in it. Extraordinary claims required extraordinary evidence, as a wise man once noted. In reply to "The SpeCtre", the brain is perfectly capable of generating hallucinations that are compatible with reports of people sincerely claiming profound supernatural experiences. For a more detailed explanation of the brain's natural ability to produce profoundly emotional and spiritual illusions, please see Religion. Reports of "angels, tunnels of light, visions, dreams, direct intervention on lives by God" are not reliable evidence for the existence of an afterlife. Angels have never been captured on video. Tunnels of light are a common brain-generated illusion. Visions, ditto. Dreams are natural, not supernatural. Direct intervention on lives by God - what interventions by which god? Forgive me, but that is hardly evidence that holds water. Until you can cross my palm with *real* evidence, I'll stick by my claim that there is no reason to believe in an afterlife. On the contrary, there are compelling biological and scientific reasons, concerning the computational power of the all-too-mortal brain, to suggest that there is no afterlife. I might be generalising my belief, but that is what discussion is all about! Newton generalised his belief that it is the force of gravity that keeps our feet on the ground. Beliefs based on solid evidence are what count the most. In reply to "I've Been Ripped Off" - I agree with your surmise about the ego. The spoiled and irrational ego has much to answer for as the engine driving many supernatural/spiritual beliefs. People crave to feel special - and immortal - and religious faith can give them that comfort, albeit a false one. Death is an ego-killer. I mention the ego's place in religion in my page on the "soul". Thanks for the talkbacks so far - Jim