COD

Do we know for sure?

No, but all the evidence points in that direction. You can discount near death experiences. Near death is not death. While there is anecdotal evidence of children “remembering” past lives, it’s always anecdotal, and non-repeatable. And when you examine the details, you have to factor for the fact that you mind’s prime directive is to keep you alive. So to think straight about this, you have to go to great lengths to compensate for confirmation bias. We don’t want to believe that death is the end.

Your mind is incapable of imagining non-existence. Imagining is a form of observation, and when you try to imagine non-existence, there you are, trying to observe it.

It seems clear to me that death is exactly like the state you were in before you were born. We get this 70–100 year eyeblink of existence, and deeply fear it’s end. But it does, and when it does, our personal participation in the universe ends. Or as George Carlin put it, “Lots of stuff happens after you die. It just doesn’t involve you