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.)

[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.