Lighthearted look at the Afterlife (Life after Death)

Member Name: alocin

Product:	Life after Death
Date:	14/05/03 (77 review reads)
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I don't really know where to start this op. I haven't written a "serious" opinion yet - i've concentrated on Muller corners, tv programmes and the odd rant about customers in shops making £10 notes all sweaty. So I thought to myself where shall I start. Life after death, dying, hmm. I know - The End of the World. That'll do.

You might have gathered from the first few lines that this isn't going to turn into a serious op about life after death. There's no deep held Christian belief going to materialise, no actual near death experience. It's just me writing about what I think, with a fairly lighthearted view on things. Sorry if this offends any people with serious views on the subject, but this isn't an RE lesson. Do not take this too seriously!

Anyway - back to The End of the World. I read in the paper today that there is this Japanese cult who go around dressed in white sheets (not the KKK, they are a different group) who claim to have been poisoned by these electromagnetic waves and things. All fine you say, just another loony cult. But the thing is their leader has prophesised The End of the World is going to happen tomorrow (15/05/03). Now if you are reading this a week next Sunday then you know that they are just loonies, but bear with me. It just got me thinking about what would happen if it was the end of the world tomorrow and I, along with everyone else, ceased to exist.

Well I would be mightily annoyed. I have just spent £900 on a computer and I have only had time to use it once! I have been working for two years and then I die right before my final exams! I just tidied my room! It would be really inconvenient for me to die right now! Can I schedule death in some other time, like never? Joking aside (like that's gonna happen) I feel that I am not yet ready to die. There is so much I still need to do, and have done to me! (steady).

My scientific side says that death is just yo
ur body shutting down. Your brain dies and your conciousness ends. Zip. I don't pretend to know what happens when you die. I just really worry that there will be nothing. I try to rationalise that if there is nothing, and you just cease to exist, then you will not be aware of not existing - if that makes sense. I managed to confuse myself there I think!

I do know what I hope is there. Anyone who has read The Last Battle by C S Lewis will know what I mean. It is the final book in the Narnia series, and all the good people and animals end up in this world where everything is wonderful. It is like Narnia, but so much better that Narnia seemed like a shadow or something like that - you need to read it to understand exactly. Anyway the people then find out that they died in a train crash, and this is the next step. I know that Narnia is all Christian metaphor, with Aslan as Jesus and everything so this world being described stands for heaven. It just always seemed really nice. I want that to be what happens when you die.

I rationalise again - dying is not likely to resemble the final chapters of childrens book but I can hope. I think if we are being scientific again then all theories on life after death are just to comfort people. Think of "Silicon Heaven" in Red Dwarf! No one can properly die and then come back to write a review on the subject, so you don't know until you are there. Anyway if my ideal doesn't happen then I want to be able to come back as a ghost and haunt people. I just think it would be fun. I would only haunt bad people of course, but wouldn't it be cool to keep hiding people's car keys and things? He he he he.

I appologise once more if I have offended or confused people. This is my lighthearted rambling look at life after death, complete with forays into Narnia, and is as such not meant to be taken too seriously, or really understood. :-)

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