Made monumentally selfish by depression, I'd ceased even to care what my husband would think of me, or that my little boy would grow up without his mother.
While not exactly a dramatic leap into activism, being a board member of a small LGBT film festival was definitely a return to a world I'd ceased to be so publicly a part of.
"If I couldn't go up on stage anymore, I would cease to exist.
If I did not believe that, I would cease to be a Catholic".
Jim Lee, a cooperative activist for more than 20 years, said: "If we get to next May and we have an unelected board running the business with no accountability I think at that point I would cease to be interested".
If I drop (1), I would cease to intend to E (according to Strong) and thereby cease to be instrumentally incoherent, and if I drop my instrumental belief (2), I would also cease to be instrumentally incoherent.
Were I to comply with Closure by forming the belief (3), I would, according to Weak, thereby cease to intend to E. In ceasing to believe (2), I would cease to be instrumentally incoherent.
If this were to happen, then I would cease to exist, replaced by a qualitatively identical person who then inherits my psychological properties.
Finally, there is the obvious worry that identity seems to persist through the loss of memory: it's hard to believe that I would cease to exist were I to undergo amnesia.
When I was a kid, I would lie awake at night about once a week, considering the fact that one day, I would cease to exist.
