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    An animal continues to count as the same animal if enough... — Carmelics
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    Supports→We could survive indefinitely after death by arranging to have our corpses preserved.

    An animal continues to count as the same animal if enough of its original components remain in much the same order.

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    Take the first question: may you and I and other creatures continue to exist for some time after our lives end? Fred Feldman (1992, p. 91) coins the term termination thesis to refer to the view that “when a person dies, he or she … goes out of existence; subsequently, there is no such thing as that person.” (A version of the thesis applies to any living thing.) We can call those who accept the termination thesis terminators, and those who deny it anti-terminators. One point anti-terminators such as Feldman (1992, 2000, 2013) cite is that people who encounter corpses sometimes call them dead an...

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