Everybody dies, but not everybody agrees about what death is. Some believe they willsurvive after the death of their bodies, going to Heaven or Hell or somewhere else,becoming a ghost, or returning to Earth in a different body, perhaps not even as a humanbeing. Others believe they will cease to exist -- that the self is snuffed out when the bodydies. And among those who believe they will cease to exist, some think this is a terriblefact, and others don't.It is sometimes said that no one can conceive of his own nonexistence, and that thereforewe can't really believe that our existence will come to an end with our deaths. But thisdoesn't seem true. Of course you can't conceive of your own nonexistence from theinside. You can't conceive