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Have you ever imagined what it would be like after you’ve died?

Suddenly thought of this topic and decided to blog about it. Death.

You’ve never thought of what’s gonna happen to you after you die? Well you should! Because if you are lucky, you would have around half a century left to live; if you’re typical, you’d have a couple more decades to live; and if you’re just slightly unlucky, you’d have only a few hours more to live and breathe and talk to your friends and family!

You could die the next time you drive out and some drunkard slams into your car and pierces your brain and stomach with glass and metal shards. WHAM! Done.

And then? What happens?

Do you go to heaven or hell? Why would the creator of this whole vast universe bother to reward or punish one tiny little creature on a typical planet in a typical solar system in a typical galaxy in the entire universe, so gloriously (to live in heaven with god and his angels) or so severely (to burn in hell for eternity), and so personally (every single person to be judged)?

If god created the entire universe, and possibly multiple universes, what makes this particular species of ape, us, so special?

Or maybe according to some others, after you die, you would be punished for your bad deeds and then your soul reincarnated. But then again, why the punishing? Our entire system of right and wrong is designed to increase the overall survival rate of human beings. As if we care about the mass murder of a thousand bees when a ‘threatening’ bee hive is burned or the brutal genocide of the Aedes mosquitoes, just because they were unfortunate enough to transmit certain diseases when they have their food (suck blood).

Obviously, there’s no bad or evil intention in the mosquitoes’ mind. But just because they happen to be harmful to our species, murdering them by all means is moral.

This does not happen to cats and dogs and elephants and lions and whales, the killing of which is illegal and greatly despised.

So I ask this: How ‘moral’ are we when we brag loudly about animal rights and human rights when we mercilessly murder animals that are simply ‘not so good’ to us?

And reincarnation? Well, that’s if god does not have enough souls to spare and does not have the ability to create new ones that he needs to ‘recycle’ used ones.

And perhaps you would just end up as a ghost, or a spirit, that lingers and prowls the world aimlessly and indefinitely, playing pranks and scaring people for entertainment.

If humans do linger as spirits after we die, then I would boldly say that we do not have spirits. Because there would be no reason for the creator to create them in us in the first place. And if spirits were a product of the natural world, then any animal from goldfish to fleas would have spirits.

And if that’s the case, the ‘spiritual world’ would be so overpopulated that spirits of all animals from the ancient past to the present would be either piled up to outer space or crushed into the core of the earth.

So finally, what’s left? Many people would say that we would all lose consciousness when we die, and never regain it, forever. Because our consciousness is in the brain and when the brain dies, it ceases to exist. The body rots and returns to ash and earth, and nature and all universe moves on.

In other words, it didn’t even notice you died.

To me the last explanation makes the most sense. Although it is indeed the most depressing one. Or maybe because it is simply too depressing to believe that we are nothing special and just a species of animal that happens to roam the earth at this particular time in history, that we made up hopeful stories of afterlife, and faithfully believed in them.

And so, if we are to just live our lives, and regardless of how well you lived it, die, and disappear into nothingness… Why the hassle to live?

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P.S. Haha no worries I am not thinking of suicide and never will! =D