Does Existence End?

Does Existence End?

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“I think, therefore I am”, wrote Rene Descartes nearly 300 years ago. It’s the most basic question: How do we know that we exist? Descartes’ answer is not derived by rational deduction or empirical induction, but assumes existence a priori. He argues that thinkers may doubt the existence of everything else around them but cannot doubt their own existence because something that doesn’t exist cannot be wrong or right. Therefore, even by doubting our own existence, beings that think must exist.

Does anybody know what happens after death definitively? No. None of us do. Only the dead know, and their “lips are sealed”. We will all continue to wonder about what is going to happen when we die for the rest of our lives.

If I say that I am, I should always be, like the God who claims that as his name. No being can claim existence in the past tense: “I was”. My non-existence would make me a liar when claiming that I am. How can existence end? After I’m dead, I imagine myself calling out, “Where are you?” and keenly listening for myself to reply. But then, even if I never again get an answer from myself, and am greeted only with silence echoing throughout the vastness of space and time, who’s the one doing the asking?