Yes, you're exactly right. I think one of the reasons a lot of people get anxious and scared about death is because they think that when they die they're going to be locked up in a dark room forever... but you won't, because non-existence is not an experience. As Alan Watts put it, death will be just like going to sleep and never waking up, just as being born was waking up never having gone to sleep.
All my thoughts, memories, ideas, experiences will be gone, just vanished.
Unlike @themartorana, I'm somewhat religious (or maybe spiritual would be a better word, as I recognize how much religion is influenced by man) but like he hopes to be proven wrong I'm terrified of being mistaken.
You won't be able to experience your own thoughts and memories anymore, but we experience dead people's ideas all the time - if they put those ideas down in writing (or music, video etc.) And it's never in the history of mankind been easier to record your thoughts. Just do it.
I really don't see how it can be seen as a favorable outcome (A fantastic performance!!! Charlemagne, Disraeli and Jefferson combined could not have done better!) when over a 10 year period, my population has dropped 62% and the state has sold off 16% of its land just to feed its people. Obviously that's not sustainable.
They also sell devices called Data Security Protocol Switches (DSPS) which completely prevent your method from working.
"A Signal Proximity (SP) option means that any registered AutothysisDSP computer hard drive that leaves the vicinity of the DSPS signal will automatically self-destruct. This protects against theft and someone walking out the room with a computer. Likewise if a jamming of the DSPS signal is tried in an attempt to thwart the security protocol the registered DSPS hard drives will self-destroy."
Ok, now I wonder: couldn't you harass people using this technology by jamming the DSPS signal until they give up on it and choose something else? I bet that these hard drives are costly enough so that it becomes a problem fast.
The people who use these devices fall under two broad categories: those who operate within the law and those who operate outside of it. In the former case, any jamming can be solved by a call to the FCC to the effect of: "Someone has been operating a jammer near our office. We think it might be a van parked nearby with the license plate 123456." In the latter case, any jamming could mean that the authorities have caught on to them and that they should start destroying all physical evidence. The drive would serve as a canary, so to speak.
