Meh, I'm late to the party.
I guess all people here are obligated to rot in their graves as they have no proof of an afterlife.
Or you could sit in an Urn on top of the fireplace, or maybe you'll do some kind of eco thing, maybe recycle whatever bits of you you can, I think I even read of becoming a tree, strange though that may sound, though that might just be marketing for the eco side of things. You say rot, others say returning to Earth, what's the big deal?
Regarding an afterlife, that's a whole 'nother topic which appears to not be the issue of this thread, so I won't ramble on about it. Though I will say there is a fascinating short story about reincarnation, but I'm pissed at myself for forgetting where I saw it online.
If anyone is interested or knows of it, it was about a man being given the choice of what to be reincarnated into, and he thinks to himself "I'd like to be a horse this time", and sure enough he starts transforming into a horse, his muscle structure alters, his face lengthens, his bones get stronger so on and so on, and then, in the final moments before becoming a horse he has his last human thought, and it is that when he dies as a horse, he'll have no concept of humanity, no idea about what it means to die and be reincarnated. When he's next faced with this decision again, he will only ever recycle into another horse. In his final seconds as a human, he wonders just what creature had not only the knowledge, but the courage to live life as a human. And then the thought is gone, like it never existed, it couldn't have ever existed, as he's just a horse.
But like I say, I can't bloody find it anywhere.
There is now a lot of focus on parallel universes that have some interesting implications of heaven and hell on earth interestingly enough.
Uhh, not in that show they don't, no. Parallel universes, yes. Making the leap from parallel universes to heaven and hell however is your addition, something which you haven't explained. I remember that show though, ends with the 'nothing becomes real until it's put to the test' segment. It's all well and good thinking outside the box, be it parallel universes or the afterlife, but to show that you're on the right line requires an awful lot of work.
I personally think that this site should slaughter them all for lack of evidence.
Except that they each have more evidence for their theories than anyone has ever put forward for reincarnation, an afterlife and so on. As the show progresses there is less and less physical evidence, with more mathematical evidence in it's place, but still much more progress than what comes out of the stories of reincarnation.
And now that I've finished a monologue, I'd expect a good handful of responses to all manner of tangents, so I best get reading what other bizarre twists this thread has taken.
Edit: Huh, what do you know, no new posts.
