Writer's Block: Above and beyond

[teleen_fiction]

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There is no after you die.  While I accept that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, so there is a theoretical possibility of some our brains' neuro-electrical impulses surviving after death, I have no real belief in any sort of afterlife.

I assume that when I die, people will mourn, my body will be cremated and all that will be left of me and everything I was is whatever I managed to do before death.  If that's not an incentive to be a good, moral, and decent person, I don't know what is.

After I die, I won't care what happens because I'll be dead.  The thinking mind cannot conceive of the unthinking mind, but having been under anesthesia with no dreams and no consciousness, I feel as though I have a fairly decent idea of what 'death' will be like.  

Unthinking, unknowing, nothingness. 

Have a nice day.

 

Comments

[darth-eldritch.livejournal.com]

LMAO!!!

(I think a lot of people find this frightening.)

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they do. I find it frightening sometimes myself, but fear doesn't change reality, :).

[darth-eldritch.livejournal.com]

Hm, this is how I see it:

There is probably an afterlife and I hope it's not going to be all fucked up like mortal life, like all this stuff about "karma" and having to go back again for each little sin committed, or whatever (as if the universe doesn't have better things to do than judging and balancing each little deed and thought).

But if it's the cold dead earth, end of story, period, you're not going to care anymore. ;)

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

This, :).

[kadymae.livejournal.com]

I like to think that there's an afterlife and the soul moves on. It's comforting to me.

But, after I die, my body, which is "star stuff, billion year old carbon" will be reduced to its component elements, which will, in turn be recycled back into the universe and made into something new. That, too, is equally comforting to me.

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

I like how you think, :).

[darth-eldritch.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is cool, :)