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Thomas Clarke, the founder of the Center for Naturalism, explored the concept of death in the paper titled Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity, published in 1994.
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Clarke critiqued the common depiction of eternal oblivion as plunged into darkness.
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He argued that when people, including non-religious individuals, envision their own death, they often imagine a future self experiencing perpetual silent darkness.
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This, Clarke asserted, is a misconception because the absence of consciousness precludes any awareness of space or time.
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Darkness, as an experience, necessitates consciousness to perceive it.
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In true oblivion, there is an absence of experience altogether, for experience requires the presence of subjective self.
