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Sudeep MAINALI
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Do We Survive Death
When we all came to this earth, we all know that we have certain life span. According to the Hindu mythology, “we came naked to this earth and we all should leave this earth naked.” That means when we all are born we didn’t bring anything and we cannot take anything from this earth. What I think is that, when we all die, there is nothing called hell or heaven, it is just the change of energy from one form to another. I don’t think that we can survive death because there is no meaning of just having the soul when there is not a physical body to control it.
Every living being on this earth that exists, dies. The difference is that they some die early and some die
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I strongly disagree with this statement. What is the use of the soul when there is no body/brain to control it? I believe that memory is the actual soul. When the memory also dies, when the body dies so does the soul. All people have different brains as well as different souls. I agree that the soul is in a very pure form It depends upon what type of body controls it. It can be both negative as well as positive. Talking about today’s world, all the criminals use their soul as a criminal because their body commands the soul to do negative things. In each and every stage of life the soul keeps on developing like the programs of a computer. It becomes more and more complex. Life goes during different stages where we learn many things so does the soul. As age grows the soul also grows old and becomes weaker and weaker. Every parts of our body has the life spam and after they stop to work our whole body including the soul stops working. Surviving death is beyond expectation of every human …show more content…
Problems from Philosophy, third Edition. NY, McGraw Hill Publication. 2005 print.
James Rachels, Stuart Rachels. Problems from Philosophy, third Edition. NY, McGraw Hill Publication. 2005

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