Medics have been urged to reconsider our final moments as a ‘gradual, interruptible process’ — and reconsider how long they spend trying to resuscitate patients
  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    91·
    12 hours 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.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      It’s more likely a combination of both, it’s permanent lights-out, but the universe doesn’t meaningfully exist without a conscious observer, so you’ll be dead for infinity and you won’t sense any of that time passing because you’ll be dead, but even the most unlikely events become 100% certain given enough time and there are calculations for how long it takes for another universe to pop into existence. (It’s a huge number, but again, effectively zero if you’re dead.)

      This may mean it’s impossible to really die forever. You won’t have memories or anything, but if space and physics is constant then at some point things will repeat and a sense of “self” will exist again. And again. And again.

      • CannonFodder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours 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.

    • groucho@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      12 hours ago

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