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John Perry The First Night Analysis
In the passage “The First Night”, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality, the author John Perry introduces one of the main characters Gretchen Weirob, in her hospital room. Weirob is a philosophy professor who is laying in her death bed due to a motorcycle incident. Accompanying her is her life time long friend Sam Miller and her former student Dave Cohen three days before she passed. The author makes it clear that Weirob is looking to be persuaded that personal survival after death is possible. “I don’t know why God created us if these few years of toll and torment are the end of it.”(John Perry page 1) these words were told by Miller explaining how he is at peace with himself because he knows that their souls will be reunited after
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