Although man tends to associate the soul with personal survival or continuity after death, there is an equally ancient view that emphasizes the continuity of life.
It doesn't matter that you have ceased to exist, because what has happened to you is quite unlike ordinary death: in your relationship to the two new people there is everything that matters in ordinary survival — a continuity of memories and dispositions that will decay and change as they usually do.
Unlike virtually every other religion, Jews rely entirely on their birthrate for survival and continuity.
UPDATE: To clarify, the news.com.au article does not say a neutrino shower could be beneficial to Earth, but implies a supernova could be beneficial, stating, "Far from being a sign of the apocalypse, according to Dr Carter the supernova will provide Earth with elements necessary for survival and continuity".
Harvesting of leaves compared to harvesting of roots has a less negative influence on the survival and continuity of useful medicinal plants and hence does not affect sustainable utilization of the plants.
Because some animals do not survive to the end of the 2-year study, the NTP's statistical analyses of site-specific tumor rates employ a survival-adjusted, continuity-corrected Cochran-Armitage (CA) trend test, the poly-3 trend test (Armitage 1955; Bailer and Portier 1988; Cochran 1954; Portier and Bailer 1989).
Scattered around the world as a minority among minorities, their existence is a constant battle for political recognition, financial survival and cultural continuity.
Her own memoir, written in Spanish, was filled with fear; she acquired and preserved languages for reasons of both continuity and survival.
"The continuity and survival of the organization depends on us moving into expanded quarters," Mr. Preminger said, expecting membership, at $225 a family, $55 for a single adult, to double.
For the study of the scale "Continuity and survival of the companies" we mobilized 8 items.
