Every one knows the religious answer of going to heaven ..
I am not
going in to this because I dismiss it as a bedtime story to ease ,or if
you are afraid to end up in the other place, increase the fear of dying
in people..
That's religion for you..
I believe,
no I KNOW
that death will be like a dreamless sleep of eternal unawareness which
has no return, no suffering, no joy I will just no longer be there..
Like one of my most favorite quotes in life:
“I
do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years
before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from
it.”
Mark twain
My story maybe not much of a
reassurance, but I prefer reality, and this has more beauty and wonder
than religion can ever promise.
We are all made of molecules and
elements forged in ancient stars that explosively died long ago and
spread their mater all over the universe.. most of the atoms in our
bodies may have their origin millions of light years apart from each
other.
We all will be going where we and
every other life form that ever lived on earth is going. back to the
unaware molecular state of separate molecules and elements that we were made of..
But it is the travel there is a story worth telling and starts the moment you die.
Suppose they bury you under a tree, that will be the departure of your journey.
.
For example like this one
It's in
Littleton, just outside of Denver, at Littleton Cemetery, The grave is under a tree right by one of the gates..It is very real.
At first part of your chemical make up will end up in that tree and
every living form around it like plants insects microbes that will carry
your molecules further on
In a sense part of you will live on in
that tree until it dies and it will be well possible that few of your
atoms and molecules will travel on in new humans and other life forms on
earth for billions of years until our sun eventually will die , most
likely after violently expanding and swallowing up most of the planets
..
Perhaps
it will become nova en destroying the whole solar system and sending
all matter back to the universe and from where it came to make new stars
and new life in another place in the galaxy..
Personally I find
this an epic adventure, far better than spending eternity worshiping
some jealous attention craving ancient war god, Yahweh Sabaoth..
(Yahweh, lord of armies)
The only thing I kinda regret is that I will
not aware of all this happening, because I will have been returned to
the state of non existence, as I was billions of years before I was born...