Who am I? What makes me who I am? My friends would probably say that it's my genuine nature and compassion that makes me who I am. They might also say that I find ways to create my identity without even trying and that I chart my own path with my morals as my guide. I would probably say it's my beauty, my spirit and my charm. My experiences, my parents and those around me have all helped establish my identity. In Derek Parfit's writings Reasons and Persons and "Personal Identity", he discusses his ideas about which would matter more, personal identity or survival, and he asserts that it is survival rather than personal identity who counts. Where Parfit expresses this view is where I disagree. I believe that where survival lies, there must be personal identity. The two must go hand in hand and personal identity is not just a psychological/corporeal continuity. I believe to some extent that Parfit is correct in claiming that survival is what matters, overall it is better to survive than to die physically, but if your personal identity is gone, doesn't that make you dead in as a person and is a new person in your place? In an article, Derek Parfit states that: “The real reason now seems to me to be this. Does personal identity consist simply of bodily and psychological continuity, or is it an additional fact, independent of the facts relating to these continuities? Our reactions to “problem cases” show, I believe, that we believe in them. And we seem inclined to believe that this additional fact is particularly profound and an all-or-nothing matter; we believe that in any describable case it must be completely or not at all true. My main assertion is the denial of this additional fact” (Robinson). In Reasons and Persons, Parfit states that the middle of a paper......continuous to me is what is important. For me, survival, in the sense that matters to Parfit, means that it is enough for someone to inherit a sufficient quantity of my psychological attributes. If two or more people inherit my attributes, it is almost as good as ordinary survival. However, I would argue that this idea of ​​being the same person is what matters in survival/continued existence. When one is divided, they cease to be. Even if they have vestiges of their past, that doesn't make them them. Works Cited Fumerton, Richard and Diane Jeske. Presentation of philosophy through cinema: key texts, discussions and film selections [Paperback]. Print.Parfit, Derek. Personal identity. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 80, no. 1 (January 197) pp. 3-27. Robinson, John. Personal identity and survival. The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 85, no. 6 (June 1988), pp.. 319-328