“We are reluctant to believe that all of what we are gets erased in death; we seam to ourselves deeper than the mere stoppage of life can reach. Yet the writings on “survival” and the evidence for it seem jejune. Perhaps whatever continues is unable to communicate with us, or has more important things to do, or things we’ll find out soon enough anyway – how much energy, after all, do we devote to signaling to fetuses that there is a realm to follow?”
