Start with the observation

Death is seen through a body becoming still and a person becoming inaccessible to our senses.

Follow the reasoning

  1. The senses report absence from their field; they do not directly observe absolute non-being.
  2. Personal identity is already more than the changing material of the body, which is replaced throughout life.
  3. If consciousness is given by a source not exhausted by matter, its removal from one arrangement need not mean its annihilation.

A passage to hold beside it

“Death is a change of place, a release of the spirit, a discharge from duty; it is not execution, non-being, or extinction.” 1

Read plainly

Death remains a grave threshold. Reason should not quietly turn ‘I no longer see’ into ‘nothing remains’ without argument.

Try observing this

Notice how often ordinary language confuses leaving a place with ceasing to exist.

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