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I would act as though he were wrong, for anthropic reasons. In other words, six months later (or 70 years later) I will certainly not wake up one day and notice that I am dead, since this can never happen to anyone.
But six months (or 70 years) minus one day later, you might wake up and notice that you are dying. That can happen very easily.
Yes, of course, but people sometimes recover after they are dying, and even after they are dying, they don't find out they are dead the next day.
Would this brand of anthropics imply that you never actually die in experiential terms? Given processes of bodily degradation, etc; this brand of immortality might be equivalent to a personal hell were it to exist.