Religious Studies 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mind Uploading, Christian Mortalism, Cosmetology

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 1022A/B
• Professor: Jonathan Marsh

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Roughly, 324 people died in the past 3 mins. This adds up to 155, 000 people per day (56 billion) " i do (cid:374)ot (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to die i (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to li(cid:448)e fore(cid:448)er a(cid:374)d e(cid:448)er a(cid:374)d e(cid:448)er a(cid:374)d therefore the pro(cid:271)le(cid:373) of the duratio(cid:374) of (cid:373)(cid:455) soul tortures me" -- this relates to a dreed. Every single person who has lived but isn"t alive right now has died. Miguel and others are not reporting fear of. They are reporting their own death -- moreover, they are not merely reporting fear, but dread -- the fact that they will die. What explains or at least justifies this fear. One answer: death deprives us of life"s many goods. This is the deprivation account of the badness of death. Death is a disease and soon it will be cured. Specialist on aging and trying to slow it down. Trying to deal with aging as a scientific project.