Philosophers want to analyze the view in order to understand it better, and see if and how it could be rationally defended. No physical change can hurt the soul.
Death is a physical change.
So therefore death can't hurt the soul . Self doesn't change because self is the soul and the soul cannot change. THAT GOES LIKE THIS 1. Therefore, I do not have a self. Besides, it treats this question as an empirical one, when it is philosophical.