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I can’t remember how many people have told me that when on my deathbed, I will want to believe in an afterlife. I haven’t crossed that road yet but Immortality is not something that I particularly feel is necessary for my existence, at least not in the same way that theists do. Sometimes I’m not even sure if I want immortality. The way my life is going right now, I don’t think I even want to make it past 30. But that’s a topic for another entry.

Whether I want immortality or not is irrelevant though. I don’t think that wanting immortality is sufficient reason to believe in an afterlife the same way that wanting to get a Canon 1Ds Mark III on Christmas is not sufficient reason to believe in Santa. So I don’t think I will want to believe in a spiritual afterlife when I’m on my deathbed. Besides if one’s rationale for belief should rest solely on one’s fear of death then wouldn’t it be more realistic to hope for drugs that would increase human lifespan indefinitely or future technology that could recreate the consciousness of people who have already died? Far fetched as they are, they still are a more realistic take on immortality than believing that you have a soul and it would detach itself from your body at the time of your death and go to a place called heaven where people get to live happily ever after. The concept to me seems childish and if I were dying and wanted false hope then I’d rather believe that I’ll be recreated someday in a computer. But as I always say, to each, his own. The comfort provided by religion to those who are grieving is unden(Read More)