And, the question not to ask Twain would have been, "did you feel like this
when your young daughter died?" See, its not just about the splendid ego of the
jolly, smug, atheist; but involves everybody. As good as the atheist is at
shuffling off to Buffalo, there' other individuals involved. Its not just about
us.
"I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for
billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered
the slightest inconvenience from it."'
--- Mark Twain
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Kellett <[email protected]>
To: everything-list <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Dec 21, 2014 4:31 pm
Subject: Re: I signed up to be cryogenically frozen
John Clark wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 Bruce Kellett <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
> > It might be a common human trait to fear oblivion, but it is even
> more irrational than belief in an afterlife.
>
>
> The fact that you've obviously lived long enough to learn how to read
> and write is proof positive that you too have a healthy fear of death.
An instinct for self-preservation is unrelated to whether or not you
have a fear of death, or of oblivion. I think Mark Twain got it about
right in the quote Brent gave:
"I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for
billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered
the slightest inconvenience from it."'
--- Mark Twain
Bruce
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