Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just a…

Richard Dawkins
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Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.399, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.399, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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