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    Death is not itself an experience. — Carmelics
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    Death is not itself an experience.

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    • 1.A person may experience her death, but the death itself is distinct from the experience of it.
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    • 2.By analogy, one may experience jogging down the street or the cup in front of one, but neither jogging nor the cup is itself an experience—experiences are in one's mind, while jogging and cups are not.
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    • 1.On a process view of death (defended by Feldman and others), dying constitutes an extended event that overlaps with conscious experience.
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    • 2.If dying and death are continuous rather than punctual, the boundary between experiencing dying and death itself becomes philosophically indefensible.
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    • 3.Therefore death, construed as a process rather than an instant, can itself constitute or partially overlap with experiential states.
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    • 1.The analogy to jogging fails because jogging is an observable third-person event, whereas death on Nagel's view is defined by the permanent cessation of a subjective point of view.
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    • 2.If death is constitutively defined by reference to subjectivity, it cannot be cleanly categorized as a mind-external event analogous to cups or physical locomotion.
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    Now, regardless of whether a person experiences her death, that death is not itself an experience. (Compare: I may experience jogging down the street, and I may experience the cup that is in front of me, but neither jogging nor the cup is itself an experience. My experiences are, so to speak, in my mind. Cups are not.) Let us add this observation to the argument:

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