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Everyone has already died and has died multiple times (kbin.social)
submitted 6 months ago by snownyte@kbin.social to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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When we sleep, we are technically half-dead. So, wouldn't it be safe to say that everyone currently living has died many times?

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[–] stembolts@programming.dev 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nah.
You're just taking liberties with your misinterpretations.
Tho that is fun to do, so nothing wrong with discussing it.

My method for resolving this would be : Monitor your heart rate and breathing, monitor the heart rate and breathing of a dead person, if they match then sure.

If you adjusted your analogy to unconsciousness, and compared sleep to something near death, like a coma, braindead person, or something else (idk I'm not knowledgeable about medical stuff) then I think that conversation could go interesting places.

Good question tho.