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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf a person is "brain dead" , what's the status of their soul?
Does it hang around with their body till actual death or can it travel on ahead to the fires of hell?
Asking for a friend.
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If a person is "brain dead" , what's the status of their soul? (Original Post)
BluesRunTheGame
4 hrs ago
OP
If so, then one can only hope that his soul is shaking and cowering in anticipation of
Marie Marie
4 hrs ago
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mr715
(5,028 posts)1. Challenging question.
The brain is the house where the mind lives, and I think most people would agree the soul is a product of the mind.
When the meat machine breaks, the spiritual stuff leaks out.
dem4decades
(14,740 posts)2. Depends if the person has a soul or not, Mitch doesn't.
Phoenix61
(18,934 posts)3. Beat me to it. nt
dweller
(29,034 posts)4. Free
and in Turtles case , fleeing finally with abandon
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LuvLoogie
(9,081 posts)5. Justice would have him witness the demise of all his machinations.
My he live long, bound to that news feed and feeling the waste of his days.
Marie Marie
(11,663 posts)6. If so, then one can only hope that his soul is shaking and cowering in anticipation of
judgment and punishment. Times like this I really want (no, make that NEED) to believe that there is a Hell with some personalized list of torture commensurate with the evil committed but I don't believe that.
DavidDvorkin
(20,809 posts)7. Still imaginary and non-existent.
dalton99a
(96,485 posts)8. Their soul leaves the body through an orifice with the onset of rigor mortis
and then sneaks out the door or window to catch the next bus