There is another view, however, which disavows the notion that death is annihilation of consciousness.
According to this other, perhaps more ancient tradition, some aspect of the human being survives
even after the physical body ceases to function and is ultimately destroyed.
This persistent aspect has been called by many names, among them psyche, soul, mind, spirit, self, being, and consciousness.
By whatever name it is called, the notion that one passes into another realm of existence upon physical death is among the most venerable of human beliefs.
There is a graveyard in Turkey which was used by Neanderthal men approximately 100,000 years ago.
There, fossilized imprints have enabled archaeologists to discover that these ancient men buried their dead in biers of flowers,
indicating that they perhaps saw death as an occasion of celebration—as a transition of the dead from this world to the next.
Indeed, graves from very early sites all over the earth give evidence of the belief in human survival of bodily death.
In short, we are faced with two contrasting answers to our original question about the nature of death,
both of ancient derivation, yet both widely held even today.
Some say that death is annihilation of consciousness;
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