[lit-ideas] Re: Right to Life, Right to Die

Andy Amago wrote:

>Personally, I'm beginning to see that death invalidates life.  It's like
>writing a book that one will throw away.  
>
Whether there's "something" after death not quite like this life, let's 
just consider the other alternative: Never dying. This would be like 
writing a book that goes on forever, repeating chapters and characters 
and events an infinite number of times. Give me the preciousness of 
single life over the excess of infinity.

> Regarding staying perpetually young, that sounds like being condemned to
>hell.  There has to be a rung in hell for the condemned to do the
>impossible, in this case: stay perpetually young.  
>

I recommend a chapter from the book THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CONSCIOUSNESS 
by William Earle.  The chapter is "Some Notes on Death, Existentially 
Considered." It's simply written (simple enough so that freshmen college 
students LIKE reading it) but it addresses some of your ideas here.  The 
book is out of print, but the chapter is temporarily up on my 
department's website at: http://academics.triton.edu/uc/earle.html .


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