Do you think that existence will end with death?

Question

Isn't that the philosophical error of solipsism?

Answer 1

We'll still exist. We just won't be in any fit state to notice. I know that when I die the rest of the world, along with my corpse, will continue to exist and function. But my consciousness will no longer exist, because there will be no blood or oxygen getting to my brain to allow it to do so.

Answer 2

I thought solipsism is that only one's self can be known and that we really don't know if there's a real external world or others in it because, after all, everything is just a set of input from our 5 senses and our brain/mind's processing them (and, therefore, our brain could be manufacturing all of this). Therefore, in a metaphysical sense, only the self is known and the whole world (including 'other people') are creations by the individual self. With that said, I don't see how the concept of existence ending with death is part of solipsism, per se. I think the key point is to look into what the self is -- if the self is tied to the body/personality then all existence ends with the death of the individual. However, if the self is something much more --- like the Self that people experience in enlightenment -- a Self that is just One thing in the universe and is completely non-dualistic and has projected all these other selves (much like what the solipsist maintains), then the end of the small self is not the end of existence. The non-dualistic Self is still there and is the Only thing in the universe and therefore just keeps projecting other 'small selves'. In this case, solipsism would be along the lines of eastern religion where the Self has made the entire physical universe and all the 'people' in it (even the 'person' who thinks that he/she is the only person whose consciousness/reality can be the only thing that can be really proven to be real). In this, then, solipsism's philosophy can potentially help to get to the realization that there's just this one Self and that it has always been and never goes away, despite the illusion that the physical world and 'people' being born and dying.

Answer 3

For the vessel, the body, it is the end. But, everything the person was is either written in the book of life, or not. At the resurrection, that data will be downloaded into a new human body, unless a person is born again, than it is downloaded into a spirit body, as happened with Christ.

Answer 4

100% yes. No it isn't a philosophical error! But a Fact.

Answer 5

There will be an afterlife after death. Make sure that you are fully aware of this fact. You can count on it and you can plan for it. See the site link which I have provided for you.

Answer 6

The end of this boby that we all live in is only another begining when we go home to be with Jesus is when the life really kicks off.

Answer 7

No. It is obviously that existence will not end at death. The elements that make up us all will continue to exist.

Answer 8

There is a consciousness that we call the "ka", or soul, that is reborn into another dimension.

Answer 9

i try not to think
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something with no beginning (existence) surely has no end

Answer 10

unfortunately yes