DEATH

[draconix]

I prefer the idea that once you die, that's it.

 

Ideas of afters or reincarnation appear like a temptation for copt out. The thought that this is it, your one time offer, is what makes life even more precious and amazing.

 

I think that's entirely correct. John Lennon understood that when he sang "imagine," when he sang about people living for today.

 

A comedian once said that if we had a president who didn't think all of our soldiers were going to heaven when they died, then maybe he wouldn't be sending them off to war so carelessly. When you consider that this is it, this is all you will ever get, then the concept of a soldier dying in a battle field over oil suddenly becomes infinitely more tragic. Not to mention how the belief in some special afterlife is what sparked 9/11 and all manner of suicide bombers in the middle east. An afterlife makes this life easy to throw away.