Category Archives: Death

Religious Cancer Patients Suffer More

Religious cancer patients are more prone to seek aggressive, life-prolonging care compared to non-religious patients, a new study says: The patients who were devout were three times as likely as less religious ones to be put on a mechanical ventilator … Continue reading

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Hoping immortality is a fact

Whoever says he knows that immortality is a fact is merely hoping that it is so. (Carl Van Doren, “Why I am an Unbeliever” in The Portable Atheist, p. 140)

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Cryonic suspension

If a person went into cryonic suspension, when are they considered dead? If they were suspended for 10 years, then revived and lived for 50 years, would they have been considered dead before they were suspended? What about if they … Continue reading

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