Mortality of The Mind
Due to the mind-body dichotomy, much interest and debate surround the question of what happens to one's conscious mind as one's body dies. The permanent loss of consciousness after death is often called "eternal oblivion". Faith or belief that mind is preserved after physical death is described by the term "afterlife."
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“The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
—William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)