>the conceivable possibility of dead-end branches where death becomes logically inevitable for some reason
Wouldn't that be all deaths? If "dying" is a single quantum event, then by the time it happens, death in the ordinary sense has been finalized.
We're not atomic particles. Even if I stand at ground zero at a nuclear explosion, I can't expect to be saved by some improbable malfunction of the bomb, because as instant as the explosion seems, I don't vanish instantly, even if it's faster than nerves can react.
Normal probability and physical law should apply until the bomb irretrievably has gone off and I'm almost completely vaporized. The only way to resurrect me would be to essentially recreate me from scratch, and a universe around me.
Wouldn't that be all deaths? If "dying" is a single quantum event, then by the time it happens, death in the ordinary sense has been finalized.
We're not atomic particles. Even if I stand at ground zero at a nuclear explosion, I can't expect to be saved by some improbable malfunction of the bomb, because as instant as the explosion seems, I don't vanish instantly, even if it's faster than nerves can react.
Normal probability and physical law should apply until the bomb irretrievably has gone off and I'm almost completely vaporized. The only way to resurrect me would be to essentially recreate me from scratch, and a universe around me.
Maybe that's how reincarnation works.