To be or not

[mike thomas]

When I no longer exist all ceases to be. Therefore you exist only as long as I.

[Dodo25]

Yeah, and when we'd play Hide and Seek and I close my eyes, you can't see me.

[BienvenuJDC]

You are making an assumption that there is no spirit and furthermore that existence is dependent on the physical body. But the whole premise of Hamlet's soliloquy was the decision to stay in this life, or to pass to another.

"But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?"

None of us can be sure of the "existence" that is beyond this life. We all have beliefs, but with no actual proof.

[Haunted]

When I no longer exist all ceases to be. Therefore you exist only as long as I.

Only in a self-centered world. Fact is, life goes on whether or not you exist.

If your idea of existence is a physical phenomenon, then your assumption that we don't exist only works as long as you have no consciousness after death. If your consciousness lives on, we'll always be here to haunt you.

[Uberzensch]

So what?

(And I mean that very seriously...)