Have You Died? Take the Quantum Immortality Test

Shelly Fagan
The Startup
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11 min readMay 23, 2019

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Have you experienced a near-fatal accident or survived a serious illness? Quantum immortality suggests you may have died. Some say this test will determine if it happened to you.

Have you had an unexplained accident where you should have died, but due to same random stroke of amazing luck, you managed to survive?

Were you ever so ill, you narrowly escaped death?

Afterwards, did you remember events differently from those around you?

One possible explanation is that you may have indeed experienced death in another timeline, but your consciousness continued in an alternate reality.

The Head On Collision

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Jerry* had one such experience. He asked for his identity remain secret because he doesn’t want people to “think he is crazy.”

“I know how this sounds,” he said. “I have been trying to figure this out for ten years. My family won’t talk to me about it.”

Jerry was driving on a highway when a pickup truck going the opposite direction crossed the center line. It happened so quickly, he didn’t have time to…

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Shelly Fagan
The Startup

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