Death & Meaning

While I don’t know that they’re calling for it in mass numbers, Thomas Clark suspects that atheists and agnostics secretly dread the nothingness of death and his essay on death, nothingness, and subjectivity is designed to bring some measure of comfort to their tortured psyches. In attempting to do so, Clark proposes that nothingness is impossible to experience since nothingness does not exist. To Clark (1) “there is no eternal absence of experience.” Clark does believe our personality, the me, of the self, a set of traits, memories, characteristics, etc., does disappear or cease at birth but he does not believe our subjectivity goes into nothingness.

Instead, Clark theorizes that there is no gap in subjectivity that occurs between the passing of the me and our eternal context. He believes that we are so attached to our present conscious personality that atheists and agnostics dread oblivion at death. However, while the

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