Reading Guide
You Just Read Front Matter
The Question That Won't Go Away
The preface poses the question the entire book sets out to answer: what actually happens when you die? Not what religions say. Not what you hope. What does the science require?
Explore the question
Core Concept
Consciousness
Your inner experience of being a particular body: what it is like to be you. The book treats consciousness as something brain structure produces, not as a...
Core ConceptLife after death
The continued occurrence of your ixperiencitness in some body, after the death of your current one. The book argues that once you accept how brain structure...
Core Concept5 After Death Theories
The five existing answers humanity has proposed to the question of what happens at death: reincarnation, heaven and hell, death-as-illusion, death-as-final...