Talk:Afterlife

Artificial Afterlives
Shouldn't the article at least mention artificial mind-upload based afterlives such as the Matrix for Time Lords, the Testimony for humans, and, of course, the Nethersphere? Hell, Dark Water implies that legends of the afterlife all through the universe are at least partially attributable to the Nethersphere… surely that's noteworthy. But as not a single such reference is present in the article, I'd like to be sure before i make the edit. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎  21:56, August 12, 2018 (UTC)


 * Nethersphere is mentioned in the following passage: "Seb described the Nethersphere to CSO Matthew as having a range of names, including the afterlife and the Promised Land. (TV: The Caretaker)". Various "mind-upload based afterlives" should have their own pages, where it can be freely commented about their relationship to the mythical/mystical true "Afterlife" described on this page. However, the two should not be mixed. And too many stories dealt with afterlife in too many ways for any one of them to be giving the true origin of the mythical afterlife. This article, thus, requires no emphasis on any artificial "afterlife" in particular. Amorkuz ☎  22:51, August 12, 2018 (UTC)


 * What I was thinking was more along the lines of a paragraph explaining that there were many artificial afterlives over the years, some explicitly going on to feed legends of the Afterlife in general; and possibly suggesting that some accounts imply such afterlives were the only truly existing ones and the rest was myth.
 * I was certainly not advocating that the article lean towards the idea in particular that the Nethersphere or the Testimony or any other such faux-afterlife is the source of the legends; but the possibility is raised in-universe and it seems worthwhile to mention it.
 * There's clearly something to it as well, if I may go on a tangent — one delving in complicated ethical problems about the nature of self, of course. Rassilon was brough 'back to life', back to a body, from his imprint in the Matrix, and from then on no one questions that this is the “real” Rassilon, resurrected, not just a doppelgänger. Yet if the Afterlife works as it is described in the Ghosts audiostory this page draws from, does that means that the original Rassilon's "soul" had moved on the moment his original body had died? There are many other such issues lying in the corners of the DWU. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎  23:01, August 12, 2018 (UTC)
 * There's clearly something to it as well, if I may go on a tangent — one delving in complicated ethical problems about the nature of self, of course. Rassilon was brough 'back to life', back to a body, from his imprint in the Matrix, and from then on no one questions that this is the “real” Rassilon, resurrected, not just a doppelgänger. Yet if the Afterlife works as it is described in the Ghosts audiostory this page draws from, does that means that the original Rassilon's "soul" had moved on the moment his original body had died? There are many other such issues lying in the corners of the DWU. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎  23:01, August 12, 2018 (UTC)
 * There's clearly something to it as well, if I may go on a tangent — one delving in complicated ethical problems about the nature of self, of course. Rassilon was brough 'back to life', back to a body, from his imprint in the Matrix, and from then on no one questions that this is the “real” Rassilon, resurrected, not just a doppelgänger. Yet if the Afterlife works as it is described in the Ghosts audiostory this page draws from, does that means that the original Rassilon's "soul" had moved on the moment his original body had died? There are many other such issues lying in the corners of the DWU. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎  23:01, August 12, 2018 (UTC)