Do you think you're dead during the time before you're alive?

Question

any thoughts?

I'm not sure myself, when I think about the differences between the time before and after life-
Before life-
-all matter that will compose your body exists
-"you" don't exist


After life-
-all matter that composed your body exists
-"you" don't exist
-people that are still alive can verify that you were alive

The majority of people who live are forgotten about completely probably less than 100 years after they die, if there is no one left that can verify their existence, what is the difference between that and the time before life?

Answer 1

I was told I was the sparkle in my father's eye.

Answer 2

I was dead the time before i am alive. I am dead in the sense that I am just an organic or inorganic particle found in the atmosphere. When a human being dies, his components degrade to organic and inorganic particles and those particles are needed to form a living matter.

Answer 3

even when a person mentally dies, theyre not really dead. cells in their body are still alive and will slowly die off later.
I define "alive" as the state of being able to mentally respond to something, even to the lowest level, like sleep or a coma and since people are taught to think and such I think that I was alive in one sense

Answer 4

i think we all have been reincarnated. i also think that the whole universe is one giant organism. Like humans. Cingle celled organisms come together and make organs, which make organisms, which make organizations, which make city's, states, countries, contenints, the earth (definitally a living thing) then the whole universe (which i say is god). When you die you enter the all knowingness of all that is, and you can stay there as long as you like. So i don't think you ever die, your always contsious and alive.

Answer 5

Wittgenstein - our normal existence is non-existence - most of the time that has accumulated during the reality of the universe, we, who are alive today for a blink of time, did not exist

Answer 6

Now that’s a good one Jaya …. The only answer I can come up with goes in the other direction, and is incontrovertible… At the instant of my death…eternity occurs (and you all go “pfftt”). Before birth? I gotta think…There must be a connection…

Answer 7

Absolutely!
--What is the opposite of nothing/something?
--What is the opposite of existence/non-existence?
--What is the opposite of Light/Night?
--What is the opposite of asleep/awake?
--What is the opposite of good/evil?
--.....dirt/clean
--.....atmosphere/void

--The parallels can go on forever, if you are not going to apply the rule to life & death--than you cannot apply it to anything!

Jehovah God can have variables applied, if he so wishes, like having someone bring back to life someone from death--THAT is not an automatic occurrence!

Jesus definitely had the power to do so, but every one he resurrected, was indeed dead!

Answer 8

Dead before your alive? Isn't it suposed to be the other way around?
Your soul is forever, the body is born,ages,dies,and no more.
??

Answer 9

i think i was dead before i was alive, but now im alive until i die, which is when ill be dead. so yes

Answer 10

To be dead you must have already lived. Since you technically weren't alive you couldn't have died.