So by investigating these seemingly ridiculous claims, we can find very real scientific knowledge about our brains and how we perceive the world.Ībsolutely. Being fooled like that normally isn’t a good thing – it tells you a lot about your brains and your eyes and so on, but for the most part we want to accurately understand what’s happening in the world, and that’s why psychology is so important. Anyone who’s seen optical illusions will realise we’re good at thinking the world is one way, but actually there is something else going on. I think it’s enormously important to be sceptical, particularly in psychology because we’re very good at leading ourselves astray. But in a sense it’s the scepticism that underlies all of my work that attracted me – whether it’s looking at people who claim to be very lucky, or at human behaviour which on the face of it looks one way, but if we use science and psychology then we find out what’s really going on. I’ve spent 20 years looking at ghosts and alleged psychics and so on. The paranormal is one of my research topics. How and why did you turn your scientific eye to the paranormal? Foreign Policy & International Relations.But if it is burdensome or troubling for any reason, then perhaps they shouldn't have to. Why add to the burden? If someone wants to arrange a balloon launch of the deceased's ashes into inner space, that's fine.
While I wouldn't go that far, I do understand what he was getting at: that the survivors shouldn't have to do something they're uncomfortable with or ethically opposed to. "It's non of their business what happens to them whey the die," he said to me.
I spoke about this with funeral director Kevin McCabe, who believes that decisions concerning the disposition of a body should be mad by the survivors, not the dead.
I imagine it is a symptom of the fear, the dread, of being gone, of the refusal to accept that you no longer control, or even participate in, anything that happens on earth. People who make elaborate requests concerning disposition of their bodies are probably people who have trouble with the concept of not existing. It makes little sense to try to control what happens to your remains when you are no longer around to reap the joys or benefits of that control.
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