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> would pay for the opposite service where they take posession of your body and make sure you dont have a captive-body experience and make sure that your brain is destroyed so it can never be resurrected and tortured.

I think the "service" you're after is called "cremation."

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thats funny but i disagree and i dont think you have comprehended my comment. its the stuff directly after you die that counts because the window of post-death activity is probably not more than a day. you are man-handled in all kind of ways immediately after you die in a hospital. cremation takes a very long time at least in my part of the US. ideally i would have people on standby to inject me with powerful drugs and something to pump the blood to ensure any experience i do have is not unpleasant. then taken directly to a facility where my entire body would be instantly vaporized with explosives to make sure there is no suffering.

OK, you're right. From my experiences with relatives, it takes several days.

The problem with doing what you said immediately is "false positives." Up to the 1800s, being buried alive was a very common fear, probably because it really happened sometimes. They didn't have any way of measuring brain activity, even an imperfect one like we have now.

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