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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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What is after death?

Hi

What is after death?
What comes after death?

Are they the same in meaning?
To me, the first sentence tries to elicit an answer for what "after death" means. The second one, on the other hand, calls for replies along the lines of post mortem life.

Thanks for any comments in advance.
  

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Hi, Perhaps you are right. Here are a few rather discouraging thoughts on the topic by Hamlet. Clive For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?

— Clive

  • Hi, Perhaps you are right.
  • Here are a few rather discouraging thoughts on the topic by Hamlet.
  • Clive For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
  • who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
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Hi,
Perhaps you are right.
Here are a few rather discouraging thoughts on the topic by Hamlet.

Clive

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppre
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Hello Clive, Thanks!
ClivePerhaps you are right.
What exactly do you mean here? I cannot really assign meaning to it.
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Hi,
You said
To me, the first sentence tries to elicit an answer for what "after death" means. The second one, on the other hand, calls for replies along the lines of post mortem life.

I answered
Perhaps you are right.

Clive
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Hi,
You expect me to be sure about questions that are primarily religious or at least philosophical?

Clive
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