[justaman]

Originally Posted by LadyShea

That's not a true statement though. Just because something or someone no longer exists doesn't mean they never existed. Unless you're positing that there is no such thing as existence.

My grandmother no longer exists, but I have pictures and memories of her having been.

Ahah! My favourite argument At death, you get a kind of enforced solipsism. Yes, objectively you'll be remembered, but that doesn't matter. You are not those who remember you. You are the entity which has been removed from existence, so you never existed by your estimation, the only one that matters. What you are saying would be true if there were another perspective for which to view your actions. But there isn't. When you die, so does reality as far as you (and you are nothing but you) are concerned.

The only way around this is to demonstrate to me that you have some avenue to review your past when you are dead. If you cannot, that past does not exist as far as you are concerned.

But while I am alive I can use empathy to predict how other people would feel if I committed suicide and base a decision on that. I value others' feelings.

Sure, and you are in error to do this in this context What you are doing is projecting your imagination onto what others feel. This completely ignores the fact that when you die, you will by definition not care about their feelings. So to be taking that into account now is to ignore the fact that you won't be taking it into account then. Other people are quite irrelevant when regarding your death, because you are not those other people.