First off, let me make it clear that "leaving a corpse" has nothing
to do with murder of any kind.

I am speaking rather of suicide.

If you can grasp the idea that every moment of life carries with it
the possibility of dying, then you're getting a glimmer of what I
mean.

Another way of saying the above is to say that every moment you spend
alive is possibly suicidal. Suicide, that is, defined loosely
as "knowingly or unknowingly acting in a way which get's oneself
killed." Each action has this character.

Add to that action a bit of carelessness or recklessness and that
possibility increases.

Though everything I'm saying admits of degrees, the basic idea is
undeniable. To live -- in any way shape or form -- to merely exist in
time -- is to commit a kind of suicide, simply by the fact that
existence can change to non-existence at any given moment.

There have been certain individuals in history who have stumbled onto
this little truth without understanding the entire situation, the
most renowned example in recent years being Howard Hughes. This
wealthy man became obsessed with keeping germ-free. He understood
that every minute of existence harbors the potential of being
infected and so he, in a sort of horrific realization of my idea,
sought to protect himself.

What H.H. didn't realize is that there IS NO WAY to protect oneself
from the fact I'm pointing out. The only way to feel at ease is to
understand certain further principles in addition. Principles that
the ancients knew -- indeed still know (you'll understand what I mean
when I finish). Principles which today's physicists are just now
blindly stumbling onto.

The basic assumption of these further principles is the "many worlds"
thesis, i.e., the idea that the universe is not a singular event
occuring in a linear fashion through time, but rather a multiplicity
of possibilities all existing equally SIDE BY SIDE!

The universe WE inhabit certainly has the appearance of singularity
and linearity. But this appearance is -- as Kant suggested -- merely
a feature of our perception system. It is imposed on the world -- a
convenient heuristic that gives some order to our stimuli. A
heuristic however, that, having been taken as a feature of the world,
is now suffocating us, making us miserable at times, and filling us
with needless fear on a regular basis.

In truth, every possibility is manifesting simultaneously. Every
possible permutation of reality is occuring right now! Quantum
physics assumes this and has employed the assumtion to make solid,
verifiable predictions. Predictions which continually lead to
technological breakthroughs, one of which is the quantum-computer. A
computer which will greatly surpass its predecessors in speed and
memory by having access to every possible world at once.

So what is the upshot of the idea of "many worlds" or "possible
universes"?

What happens when you commit suicide? Either knowingly or
unknowingly? What happens when you are killed by a bomb, disease, or
a murderer?

I'll tell you, but can you guess?

Well, the answer is not death. That's right! Death cannot happen to
you. What happens is that your corpse will inhabit a possible
universe (a poss-u) that no longer contains you proper. In that
universe (and in an infinite number of other universes), your funeral
proceeds, your loved ones weep and your corpse is buried. Meanwhile,
simultaneously, you--the waking "live" you--will exist in a universe
(indeed, in an infinite number of universes) in which you live on. In
some of these, you didn't even try suicide. In others, you tried and
failed and are perhaps crippled. But the important point I'm making
is that you will never find yourself dead.

This last paragraph describes--in the best way today's words
(developed under the psychosis of believing in a singular possible
universe) can describe--what I mean by "leaving a corpse."

If you've ever experienced a "brush" with death, you got a
particularly concentrated taste of what I'm talking about. But in
truth, you leave corpses all the time. And the more risks (as they're
called, though there is no true risk involved--aside from being
maimed, and even this possibility can be reverted, but more on that
later) you take, the more corpses you leave. That is, the more you
take life-threatening risks in this universe, the more possible
universes you create in which you have been replaced by a corpse.

The fact is, you are constantly dying in this way. But since you
always go into the poss-u in which you live on, you only experience
the "brush" with death or "living on," i.e., no change at all.

(more later)