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Eliminating Death -- Part 2 -- Death as Ultimate Harm -- Video
In the second part of his challenge to the conventional view that human death is inevitable and even desirable, Mr. Stolyarov argues that death is the greatest harm that can ever befall you, because death implies the disintegration of your individuality, the cessation of your very being. Death is so inconceivably frightening that no good ways exist in any language to describe the state of “being” dead. Nothing – not extreme pain, torture, or grief over the loss of others – can compare to “being” dead oneself. (“Being” is written in quotation marks, since a dead person cannot be anything; the personhood and individuality cease upon death.) The promise of eternal life offered by many religions is a tempting but poor substitute for living indefinitely in this world.
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G. Stolyarov II is an actuary, science fiction novelist, independent philosophical essayist, poet, amateur mathematician, composer, contributor to Enter Stage Right, Le Quebecois Libre, Rebirth of Reason, and the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Senior Writer for The Liberal Institute, former weekly columnist for GrasstopsUSA.com, and Editor-in-Chief of The Rational Argumentator, a magazine championing the principles of reason, rights, and progress. Mr. Stolyarov also publishes his articles on Helium.com and Associated Content to assist the spread of rational ideas. He holds the highest Clout Level (10) possible on Associated Content and is one of Associated Content's Page View Millionaires. Mr. Stolyarov has also written a science fiction novel, Eden against the Colossus, a non-fiction treatise, A Rational Cosmology, and a play, Implied Consent. You can watch his YouTube Videos. Mr. Stolyarov can be contacted at gennadystolyarovii@yahoo.com.
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Learn about Mr. Stolyarov's novel, Eden against the Colossus, here.Read Mr. Stolyarov's comprehensive treatise, A Rational Cosmology, explicating such terms as the universe, matter, space, time, sound, light, life, consciousness, and volition, here.