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How do you describe death to a person who's from a world where nothing ever dies? (literature.cafe)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Let's say if we were to meat someone from a different universe where things never die, how would you explain death to them?

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[–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

without death there is no end and without end there is no real beginning either since the word doesnt even have meaning at that point. And without end there is also no change, because changing enough would be also kind of an ending and also "dying" as one version of you stops and another begins. Could such being even be sentient enough to understand you? Would it want to be?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'm going to push back a bit. Ending doesn't necessitate death. A movie ends. You don't need an end to have a beginning, either—the positive integers begin at 1. Your second sentence is begging the question. You assert that without death there couldn't be endings, and change is a kind of ending, so without death there couldn't be change. But plenty of things change without dying. I used to be a baby. My infancy ended without my infant death.

    If we take OP's question to include anything that could even metaphorically be compared to death, then there wouldn't even be such a universe, because any instant in time could be described as the "death" of a prior instant in time

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