According to the Symmetry Argument, death is not bad because
A) one cannot experience anything bad when dead.
B) the dead no longer exist.
C) death is but a transition to the afterlife.
D) one's prenatal nonexistence isn't bad either.

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The Symmetry Argument posits that since we do not consider the time before our birth (prenatal nonexistence) to be bad, we should similarly not consider death (posthumous nonexistence) to be bad. This argument relies on the symmetry between the time before our birth and the time after our death.

According to the Symmetry Argument, Death Is Not Bad Because