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In reply to the discussion: Why, when someone dies, are they spoken of as a "body" or "corpse"? [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)68. Because luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
You could make a perfect clone of a loved one, full of life, and it would not be the same person but rather a new one in familiar flesh.
Identical twins are distinct beings despite every possible similarity. The being is more than the body.
How would you wrap your mind around the possibility of transferring one's mind to a different container be it a mechanical or a biological construction.
Will you lament a corpse when it's former owner is still there clothed in a new form with every bit of their personality, memories, whit, hopes, and dreams?
We are more than a collection of parts and more to being alive the working order of those parts.
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Why, when someone dies, are they spoken of as a "body" or "corpse"? [View all]
Duer 157099
Feb 2013
OP
okay, you got 3 verys in there so spill the beans! who's the "notable journalist" n/t
orleans
Feb 2013
#38
Good clue.. My mother and my Irish twin are nurses.... When my Irish twin was in nursing school
midnight
Feb 2013
#83
It is good stuff... Right now my Irish twin and I are the same age.... We have lots of fun with this
midnight
Feb 2013
#87
I realized that immediately when my mother died. I knew she was no longer there.
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#59
"*They* do not" is your opinion based on your assumptions & what you've been told
orleans
Feb 2013
#55
don't be a jerk by implying i don't know what hallucinations are. open your mind (it'll do you good)
orleans
Feb 2013
#63
It makes sense to me. A corpse/body is different from "Jane Smith." Jane's essence is no longer ther
Honeycombe8
Feb 2013
#16
Comatose people are still alive..they exist as a living person even if they cannot
SoCalDem
Feb 2013
#20
when she died my mother was no longer in the physical body. She entered another realm
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#62
The undertakers in my home town were always careful to refer to the deceased as 'Mr.' or 'Mrs.'
LongTomH
Feb 2013
#85
Question: 100 years later, is the dirt that's leftover from the corpse a person?
Taverner
Feb 2013
#49