Originally Posted By: turtlevette
Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit
and how we deal with death is just as important as how we deal with life.
That's from Star Trek 2 "The wrath of Khan"
How much more trouble would it be to send pets to the same place you're at?
Some people don't believe in things they don't understand. That's a pathetic way to think and live.
And some people believe in magic books that dictate how they should live their lives and what happens after if they don't obey the text, despite these texts being translated a thousand times and modified heavily....
I honestly don't know what happens when I die other than what we can observe from this side of it, which is the termination of our existence as a human being and the subsequent return to earth of our bodies. Beyond that, what happens to our "conscience"? Nobody really knows. Perhaps, and probably, nothing. I do know that there's no guy living in the clouds and his evil opposite living in the centre of the earth stabbing folks with a pitchfork sounds pretty contrived as well.
Perhaps there is another plane of existence our conscience passes onto beyond this one. It certainly makes more sense than the simplified heaven/[censored] theory. However, I don't know that to be the case, so I stand by my earlier statement that we should make the best of the life we have, because in terms of the here and now, that's all we've got.