Consider a hypothetical scenario. Suppose you knew that although you yourself would live a long life and die peacefully in your sleep, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed 30 days after your death in a collision with a giant asteroid. How would this knowledge affect you?
~ Samuel Scheffler from, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/the-importance-of-the-afterlife-seriously/
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