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I think you're stretching things by asserting that doctors bring people back from the dead every day. People who lack 'vital signs' such as heart action or respiratory movements can sometimes be medically resuscitated, but such individuals aren't dead. They might better be described as inert...

"Death is the one event over which I have absolutely no control, but which I can be guaranteed to fulfil with 100% success." I made that one up to make you happy, Samana Johann. I don't really think you will be, but I think there's a strong possibility you'll let me know.

Thank you, Samana Johann, for your kindly reply. I take from your answer that one should avoid blind faith at one extreme, and avoid uncritical scepticism at the other extreme, instead pursuing a personal path (in company with learned, experienced and kindly others such as yourself) based on...

Thomas, you offer a pretty sound working definition that doesn't dissemble, because it describes an individual's state of mind that may be open to being tested in everyday experience, and to modification by the results, carefully considered. For example, I buy what seems like a nice second-hand...

.....now and then, O L%rd!, only now and then.....

Never seen a kipper, skipper? Welcome aboard? Never encountered a mauve pirate? Shiver me timbers!

Dodgy methodology, as any deity would have to wearily point out: Peanut butter sandwiches never land "peanut butter down". Why? Because a sandwich is by definition two slices of bread with something sandwiched between them. Both external surfaces of a peanut butter sandwich are QED free of...