Medics have been urged to reconsider our final moments as a ‘gradual, interruptible process’ — and reconsider how long they spend trying to resuscitate patients
  • groucho@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    23 days ago

    A long time ago, my old therapist asked me what I thought would happen after I died. I told him I didn’t know and was ok waiting to find out when it happened. He pressed me on it and I said “ok, either the big switch flips and that’s it, or something soul-like survives, or the human mind dilates my final moments into an eternity because it cannot comprehend non-existence.” And then he changed the subject.

    This reminds me of that.

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      22 days ago

      or the human mind dilates my final moments into an eternity because it cannot comprehend non-existence.

      Gawdamm I never thought of that possibility. You’ve broken my brain sir/ma’am. I’m going to be useless for the rest of the day contemplating this.

      • groucho@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        22 days ago

        Based on the anesthetic I had a few years ago it’s probably not the third thing, but the therapist was annoying me.

        • CannonFodder@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          22 days ago

          Space is finite, and time is likely finite too. So every posibilty isn’t really a thing. And regardless a copy of you existing is not you.

            • CannonFodder@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              21 days ago

              We can’t say anything for certai ln. All we got is ‘i think so I am’. But putting some practical assumptions down seems to get us places, so there’s that.
              Space is understood to be finite because it seems to have had a start and be expanding at a finite rate.
              I take the simplest explanation by default unless it’s proven wrong.
              Consciousness is a tricky one since one can’t measure it at all. So scientific approaches tend to immediately fail.
              Time is how we pervieve things, simplest explanation is that time moves how we perceive it. Physics seems to work with causality as we observe, so that’s useful.