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I was reading a webcomic the other day (Read the blog at the bottom here. And read the rest of the comics, as well. They're awesome.) and the artist proposed an interesting theory: We never acually die. Our consciousness just jumps from body to body in an endless stream of parallel universes once the body it inhabits dies. I am quite fond of this theory, and would like to try it out sometime (When I'm really old and don't feel like wearing a diaper anymore). Which made me think: what do other people think about the concept of death? Share your beliefs, whether they be fanatical or sacreligious, it doth not matter to me.

stare I once wrote a paper about this... kind of...
But its on another computer... where the internet is down.
I'll see if I can move it (I might not be able to xp sweatdrop ).
Anyway, the basis of this paper was that we don't really die until we are forgotten.

Yesh! whee no shallow waters for me! I dwell in the deep end of the world of thought!
Okies, my laptop is now seeing the internet... here is my paper.
WARNING! SUPER LONG POST!

“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to be.” W. Somerset, English Author
“He is dead… because we have forgotten him.” page 123 of Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
Are we dead, when our hearts stop beating, we stop breathing, and a doctor pronounces us dead? Are we dead when people forget we were alive? Or are we alive when people remember us?
I think we are alive when we are remembered, when people interact with us because they know we are there. Who hasn’t ‘died’ a little when they were forgotten some time in their lives? When a parent forgot their preference of one sweet over another; a child, a chore that the parent needed done?

High School can be a very difficult time for many teenagers, especially when one’s hormones are not in proper working order. A simple word can make or break someone.
At the end of my Sophomore year, Mr. Stam had his students get in a circle and say what we liked the most about someone, what we would remember. I didn’t think anyone would comment on me, being one of the few Sophomores in a group of Seniors and Juniors; the Rulers and their heirs. Who would want to talk to me?
One of the Seniors did. Pointing to me from across the room, she began:
“Becca when you point to me in the hallways and say ‘I know you!’, you make my day.”

In order to keep students from drinking and driving on Prom and Homecoming night, some High Schools choose some students (how I don’t know) to become one of the ‘dead’. Wearing make up to make them look dead, they go to class like usual, but no one talks to them and when they speak, no one listens. Students are to forget that student is one of the living.

Many archeologists seem to believe that we come back to life when we are remembered, which is why they are in their field of study. Studying the ancient Egyptians, Israelites, and others, they find what we have lost.
How many brilliant men ‘died’ in the fire of Alexandra because we have forgotten their works?
How many cultures are still ‘dead’ waiting to be reborn, to be found?
Many we have found and remembered. Others we have not.

[/end english paper] It looks bigger on word... sweatdrop

It wasn't a huge formal paper. My teacher just wanted us to pick a quote and write. She wanted to know what we thought.
And she wanted some in my class to actually write.
>.< She had a problem with getting me to stop when the class was going on...

If I'm understanding you right, the guy who coined this phrase is the one you're talking about. He's a very optimistic philosipher; his theories are savagely attacked in the play Candide, however. The author believed optimists to be naive idiots, although he had about the same opinion of pessimists...

His idea of the perfect life is one where you work constantly so that you don't have time to think about the state you're in. And if you can't compare your life to other people's, you must be happy where you are. It's an interesting theory, but one I ultimately disagree with.

I've always been fond of the idea that there are parallel universes where everything is different; a sort of "bizarro" reality, if you will. For example, a universe where Hitler won WWII, or where the union never joined back together (American Civil War). I's like to see these places someday; it'd be fun to compare how well they're doing to how well we're doing.

I'm far more interested in twinking Inuyasha's ears, if my theory is true.

>.< The only character i like from Inuyasha is Seshy. I used Inuyaha as an example because more people have heard about it then Yu Yu Hakusho... I would totally play with Kurama's hair and call him nicknames, such as 'Blossom' and 'Strawberry'.
Or call Edward Elric from FMA verically Challenged.
Or steal Able's Glasses from Trinity Blood.
Or a lot of other fun things...
I would also mess up their stories. Especially the last two. I like happy endings.

GO GUYS WITH LONG SILVER HAIR!! whee whee whee whee
rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl
Ok, that was completely off topic...