&gt; you die at every femtosecond of living<p>This is an interesting theory that has its roots in solipsism: the belief the world vanishes the moment you close your eyes. The fact of the matter is that it (and solipsism) just don&#x27;t seem to be <i>true</i>, not even to solipsists. If you truly believed you were dying at every second, you&#x27;d act in all sorts of ways against your long term survival, but here you are posting on the internet.<p>Even if we take the position as true, it seems entirely reasonable to perceive the end of the &quot;chain&quot; of &quot;yous&quot; to be a tragic event.<p>&gt; But who says that those living beings aren&#x27;t just one big living being? Our brains tell us so.<p>Well, our brains, as well as the general evidence we see in the world around us. <i>If</i> we were one giant interconnected entity, dying would probably be very different. However, there&#x27;s very little reason to assume that as a given - I can&#x27;t talk to my dead relatives through any of my living ones.<p>I think this argument is perhaps more simply stated as &quot;you were never a large part of the human race, so your death will not matter in a large way either&quot; which is quite true, in fact. My counterpoint would be that the death of the individual rightly remains terrifying to that individual. If I were the human race, I would correctly not concern myself with the death of a few of my brain cells (and I do not, regarding my own real brain cells), but I would regard the death of the human race (myself) as truly important.<p>If anyone&#x27;s interested, I&#x27;ve written about some of these kinds of arguments I&#x27;ve heard before: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vincentwoo.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;04&#x2F;30&#x2F;arguing-for-immortality&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vincentwoo.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;04&#x2F;30&#x2F;arguing-for-immortality&#x2F;</a>