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Re "The Importance of the Afterlife. Seriously," by Samuel Scheffler (Sunday Review, Sept. 22):
Mr. Scheffler writes that "our capacity to find purpose and value in our lives depends on what we expect to happen to others after our deaths." Point well taken and very well made. However, don't underestimate the insistence of the human ego on a negotiated immortality and the dread of losing even this.
If all the people on earth die, and there are no more to come, it also means that my traces, my genes and the children who carry them, my influence on others, words I have written and spoken, music and art I may have created, all the shouts and whispers of who I am, are also erased. I die twice.
SANDRA SHAPIRO
New York, Sept. 22, 2013
To the Editor:
Samuel Scheffler argues that we live with purpose today because we know that it will serve humanity after our death. Personally, I find comfort in a more existentialist view.
While I do care about the future of my friends and family, I do the things I enjoy doing regardless of what happens after my death because, according to my existentialist perspective, there is no purpose to life besides taking advantage of what it gives us.
There are a number of other ideologies that people live by, including religion, political ideologies and so on. Concern for humanity after one's death is just one possible way to describe one's purpose on this earth.
NATALIE BARMAN
New Orleans, Sept. 24, 2013
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