I am the last of my mother's lineage, I did not ask for this but here it is anyway. I suppose if you live long enough, everyone else around you is bound to die. And they did. All of them. Except my former stepfather, only the good die young.
Life has a morbid sense of humor, if you feel like the chaos of the universe needs a manifest explanation. Me, I just think things happen when they happen because otherwise they wouldn't. If it has happened, then that's it - it can't unhappen.
We go to sleep, wake up and then do something for the period of time in between. Rinse and repeat... Life's a Bitch, Shit Happens, Then you Die.
We're all going to die...eventually. Unless you know something I don't and have actual proof to back that up.
I don't fear my own death, it will be either option A: a complete shutdown of all sensory input and processing for all eternity *OR* option B: something else. Mind you, eternity is a pretty long time and supposedly nothing lasts forever.
If it is option B, then all bets are off on exactly what that something is. You will however not have any problems finding a myriad of subcultures eager to fill that gap; religions, spirituality, alien conspiracy theories, the matrix, alternate universes or parallel dimensions - just to name a few. What they all seem to have in common is that they focus mostly on explaining why their version of the ultimate truth is the correct one, which has always made me suspicious of any such salesmen.
What we can confirm is that death is not the end, even if you die the world goes on. Your body will also probably still be there after your demise, or your ashes. Even if we burn the earth to the core, the universe will still go on. Just because you or your planet comes to an end, doesn't mean the world does. Perspective.
To quote Newton's First Law of Thermodynamics:
"The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can be converted from one form to another with the interaction of heat, work and internal energy, but it cannot be created nor destroyed, under any circumstances."
So there you have it, there is life after death - but not as we know it.
What we need is a religion that focuses on life BEFORE death, everything else is just hearsay (or heresy).
