PEIRCE TO STRAWSON Nonetheless, Strawson believed, it was not impossible to conceive of one’s own individual survival after bodily death Such survival, however, would be the survival of an individual that was strictly solitary, unable to communicate with others, and unable to bring about effects in the world In proportion as memories fade and impotence palls, the survivor’s concept of himself as an individual becomes attenuated ‘At the limit of attenuation there is, from the point of view of his survival as an individual, no difference between the continuance of experience and its cessation Disembodied survival, on such terms as these, may well seem unattractive No doubt it is for this reason that the orthodox have wisely insisted on the resurrection of the body’ (I 116) Strawson’s own death, early in 2006, marked the end of an era in English philosophy 71