Abstract

Discusses the personal survival of death by worldlines, which represent past and future positions in the 4-dimensional space-time continuum. Personal consciousness exists before and after death in the 4-dimensional worldline, which is contiguous with the 3-dimensional world. Without the passage of time, requiring a 5th dimension, mental events in a worldline are expressed simultaneously and perpetually, although they are personally experienced as momentary. With an awareness of duration made possible by a 5th dimension, the continued experience of one\'s past life becomes monotonous. This monotony is broken by a common perception of all human worldlines because of their diversity. The unequal distribution of pain and pleasure among equally deserving persons before and after death and in their worldlines could be accounted for by a common sharing of all pain and pleasure.