2012-02-25, 02:10 AM
Locked Wrote:People use the idea of Heaven as a way of coping with death.
Or the idea of an afterlife as a whole, if you approach the topic with brutal objectivity.
But that's not to say there isn't something after life, though obviously there's no indication towards anything given viable evidence to the fact would have to come from a person killed and brought back to life.
Ultimately I have a two-part opinion. One is optimistic, feeling that there is indeed some type of afterlife. After all, the very idea has been written about by humans from every culture and facet of society since the dawn of man, so it must be true, right? That last part, in conjunction with the above necessity for evidence, leads to my second-part opinion, the more realistic of the two: don't take comfort in a potential format of afterlife to cope with death, but rather in the knowledge that whatever is supposed to happen to you WILL happen. If we disregard the concept of an afterlife as the greatest human lie ever told and believed by, again, every culture since the beginning of humanity, then the one place of factual basis for a positive outlook on death is the flow of life itself. Everything happens for a reason, and death is the same for everyone because, at it's simplest, it's experienced by everyone at the end of it all. Thus, take solace in knowing that, whatever is supposed to happen in death and afterwards, will.
Though none of this is justification for being a bad person. It's all objective, again.

