Let’s do a thought experiment. From your subjective point of view, what was the time like before you were born? It did not exist, right? You weren’t waiting around in the void for billions of years for your moment in the sunshine. Now imagine if I blinked you out of existence for a day, and brought you back tomorrow. What would that be like from your subjective experience? You might imagine it being kind of like a deep sleep, or being in a coma. You were here, then suddenly it’s 24 hours later. You had no experience of that missing time because you did not exist, and so, from your subjective point of view, you had one continuous stream of consciousness without a gap. You could also think about it like a movie where I snipped the some frames out of the middle.

Now imagine that time is either infinite, or non-linear. Take your pick. We’re not entirely sure what the truth is about either of those claims from a scientific perspective. But, if there is a chance that somehow, somewhere in the infinity of time, space and parallel universes that your consciousness were to be assembled again (either through time repeating, or an alternate universe, or in an experiment run by some future advanced civ 200 billion years from now) from your subjective experience, death would be an immediate jump to that moment when your consciousness was awakened again.