Heaven Can Wait

On a spring day last year, three months after the death of my younger son, Max, I opened my front door and saw a butterfly resting on the steps

And if that’s not enough to convince you, D’Souza provides a checklist of benefits from believing in life after death: it keeps us honest, gives our lives “a sense of hope and purpose”

Beautifully written ‘essay’.  I do wonder though about

God

hulitoons - 02 November 2009 05:18 PM

I do think the human condition itself would like to know if the end of life is simply oblivion or if there is a tangible quantum after shedding worn out, sick or torn bodies.

Or maybe not.  I imagine that many people would be most upset to know conclusively that there is no afterlife, or that their own preferred afterlife isn’t the one that happens.

Though on the plus side, I think that it would drastically cut back on all these suicide terrorists if they knew that they’d be spending eternity sitting on a musty sofa watching endless repeats of Gilligan’s Island, drinking flat American beer, eating stale Twinkies, and that their harem of virgins would all be in the form of cockroaches.

Those had better be some *DAMN SEXY* cockroaches….

Robin Bobcat - 02 November 2009 07:00 PM

Those had better be some *DAMN SEXY* cockroaches….

I’m sure that they would be. . .to other cockroaches.

In the AWARE study, randomly generated images will be projected in the rooms of critically ill patients, in locations where they can be viewed only from above