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    It is not the case that The self that survives thanatization is not the same self whose death is under evaluation; by eliminating future-directed desires one has effectively ended the psychologically continuous person, making the 'preparation' itself a form of ante-mortem death.

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    • 1.Desire-elimination is a change in mental content, not cessation of consciousness; the subject persists through radical personality changes throughout life.
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    • 2.Biological continuity of the organism remains; thanatization preserves this substrate, distinguishing it from actual death.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'change to self' with 'death of self'; accepting this leads to absurd conclusions about ascetics or monastics who renounce desires.
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    • 1.Psychological continuity depends on narrative connectedness; eliminating future desires severs the narrative thread linking present to future self.
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    • 2.Identity is constituted by dispositional states and projects; their systematic removal creates discontinuity equivalent to death of that person.
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    • 3.If we accept that the person who survives radical dementia has effectively died, consistency requires accepting death occurs when psychological structures dissolve.
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