Talk:Mental Continuation/@comment-24729606-20190219225858

on the one hand I can see some appeal to this kind of existence, essentially that of a ghost or a disembodied spirit (i.e. one that had a body that had ceased for some reason) but on the other hand I cannot help but wonder if (having achieved this post mortem state) one must continue to endure thereafter and indefinitely or if one can release ones incorporeal grip on the material world and disappear into the nothingness beyond. if so then this state would be somewhat more tolerable because one would have a means of escape/release when or if one should so should desire. but if not then this is would an eternity that would at first be liberating albeit somewhat depressing but would eventually become little more than existence without meaning (assuming persistence in disembodied spirit form can even be described as existence).