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  • Essay / How to Be Dead and Not Care, by Stephen E. Rosenbaum, by...

    I believe that when a person dies, they cease to exist in this world. That being said, the deceased person will not feel any emotions related to this world. Rosenbaum states, “Being dead is clearly not part of a person's life, in the normal sense of the term, although we might say that it is part of a person's story” (177). What does your story have to do with your death? Nothing. If you're dead, you're dead – your story makes no difference. This implies that if it is not a part of life, one cannot truly feel emotions, because living and being dead are two fundamentally different states. In the essay “How to Be Dead and Not Care,” Thomas Nagel responds to Rosenbaum and Epicurus by citing an example of betrayal by a friend. For example: let's say your best friend sleeps with your husband and you die without knowing that they did it behind your back when you were alive. Thomas Nagel would say that it hurts you even if you never discovered it. However, Epicurus, Rosenbaum and I believe that this will not harm you, because you will never experience the