The Question of Death

Death depends on what we believe about two fundamental questions in philosophy of mind, the nature of consciousness and the nature of identity. What could be the basis of any claim to identity? Is it just a matter of psychological continuity through time? When we think about replacing parts of ourselves, even parts of our brains? Or stranger still, when we think about the prospect of copying our minds on to some other substratWhat would it mean to create minds that have perfect copies of our memories? And desires, perhaps better copies than we maintain normally while living?"