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Originally Posted by Bandwagon In Flames
One of the biggest moments of realization I had was thinking about death from a Biological standpoint. This thought turned me from Agnostic to Atheist almost immediately.
We are who we are because of our Brain. That is what gives us consciousness. I don't think anybody can debate that. Our personality, our tendencies, our addictions all stem from the brain. If you suffer a brain injury, you are no longer the same person. There are cases of people being struck by lightning causing their brain to get re-wired and resulting in massive changes to their personality and skill-set.
When you die, blood stops flowing to your brain and it begins to decay. You can compare our body and brain to a computer system. It ceases to function if you remove the power supply. There is no soul that magically goes up to heaven or reincarnates into a new being.
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It's weird how obvious it seems once you accept this. What happens when we die isn't a mystery. We know exactly what happens when we die. See above.