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Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Adams" title="Douglas Adams">Douglas Adams</a>, <i>Life, the Universe and Everything</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife – a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife, but no one will know where it's being held. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a>, <i>The Early Essays</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun" title="Wernher von Braun">Wernher von Braun</a> as quoted in <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i> (1973) by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" title="Thomas Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a>; also quoted as: <i>Everything science has taught me— and continues to teach me— strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.</b> <ul><li>Book of Daniel, 12:2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>How do we know there is an afterlife? Because the <a href="/wiki/Bible" class="mw-redirect" title="Bible">Bible</a> says so. How do we know that the Bible is correct? Because God wrote it. How do we know that God wrote it? Because it says so in the Bible. Yes, we have to admit this is circular reasoning, and those outside the circle are unlikely to accept it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza" title="Dinesh D'Souza">Dinesh D'Souza</a>, Life after Death, 2009.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer" title="Philip José Farmer">Philip José Farmer</a>, <i>To Your Scattered Bodies Go</i> (1971), Chapter 4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There’s no objective evidence for an afterlife, and anecdotal reports of heaven cannot be distinguished from wishful thinking, self-delusion, and the effects of oxygen loss on the brain. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Morrow" class="mw-redirect" title="James Morrow">James Morrow</a>, <i>City of Truth</i> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_Awards_Showcase" class="extiw" title="w:Nebula Awards Showcase">Nebula Awards 28,</a></i> p. 257</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When Cassie Fowler awoke, she was less shocked to discover that an afterlife existed than to find that she, of all people, had been admitted to it. Her entire adulthood, it seemed, year after year of spiting the Almighty and saluting the Enlightenment, had come to nothing. She’d been saved, raptured, immortalized. Shit. The situation spoke badly of her and worse of eternity. What heaven worthy of the name would accept so ardent an unbeliever as she? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Morrow" class="mw-redirect" title="James Morrow">James Morrow</a>, <i>Towing Jehovah</i> (1994), Chapter 4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Sunt aliquid Manes: letum non omnia finit,<br />Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos.</i> <ul><li><b>There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Propertius" title="Propertius">Propertius</a> <i>Elegies</i> IV, vii, 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Say: "If the Hereafter with God, be for you specially, and not for anyone else, then seek ye for death, if ye are <a href="/wiki/Sincere" class="mw-redirect" title="Sincere">sincere</a>." But they will never seek for death, on <a href="/wiki/Account" class="mw-redirect" title="Account">account</a> of the (<a href="/wiki/Sins" class="mw-redirect" title="Sins">sins</a>) which their <a href="/wiki/Hands" title="Hands">hands</a> have sent on before them. and God is well-acquainted with the <a href="/wiki/Wrongdoing" class="mw-redirect" title="Wrongdoing">wrong-doers</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a>, 2:94</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>They swear by their strongest oath, 'God will not raise up the deads!' — Surely, It is an irreversible promise from Him! — yet most men do not know. To adjudicate them about all things they disputed about, then those who disbelieved may realize that they are liars. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a> 16:38-39</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And be not like her who unravels her yarn, disintegrating it into pieces, after she has spun It strongly. You make your oaths to be means of deceit between you because a people is more numerous than another people. Allah only tries you by this. And He will certainly make clear to you on the day of Resurrection that wherein you differed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a> 16:92</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But those will <a href="/wiki/Prosperity" title="Prosperity">prosper</a> who <a href="/wiki/Purify" class="mw-redirect" title="Purify">purify</a> <a href="/wiki/Themselves" class="mw-redirect" title="Themselves">themselves</a> and <a href="/wiki/Remember" class="mw-redirect" title="Remember">remember</a> the <a href="/wiki/Name" class="mw-redirect" title="Name">Name</a> of their <a href="/wiki/Lord" title="Lord">Lord</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Pray" class="mw-redirect" title="Pray">pray</a>. But (behold) you prefer the life of this world; while the Hereafter is better and more enduring. And this (passage) is in the Books of the earliest, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrolls_of_Abraham" class="extiw" title="w:Scrolls of Abraham">Books</a> of <a href="/wiki/Abraham" title="Abraham">Abraham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a>, 87:14 - 87:19</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The nurse started to explain herself.<br />Mom cut her off, saying, “Except I don’t believe in any of that.”<br />“You don’t believe in what?”<br />“The afterlife. Heaven and such.”<br />The nurse had to breathe before saying, “But in times like this, darling? When everything is so awful, how can you not believe in the hereafter?”<br />“Well, let me tell you something,” Mom said. Then she leaned forward her chair, her voice moving. “Long ago, when my husband was dying for no good reason, I realized that if a fancy god was in charge, then he was doing a pretty miserable job of running his corner of the universe.” <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reed_(author)" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Reed (author)">Robert Reed</a>, <i>The Ants of Flanders</i> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Dozois" class="extiw" title="w:Gardner Dozois">Gardner Dozois</a> (ed.) <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year%27s_Best_Science_Fiction:_Twenty-Ninth_Annual_Collection" class="extiw" title="w:The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection">The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection</a>,</i> p. 410 (Originally published at <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</a> July-August, 2011)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the afterlife <br /> You could be headed for the serious strife <br /> Now you make the scene all day <br /> But tomorrow there'll be Hell to pay <ul><li>Squirrel Nut Zippers, <i>Hell</i> (lyric by Tom Maxwell)<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://genius.com/Squirrel-nut-zippers-hell-lyrics">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p>The unique aspect of biblical faith is that immediate, mundane history is beheld, affirmed, and lived as the true story of the redemption of time and Creation. Biblical ethics constitute a sacramental participation in history as it happens. ... In this saga, time is transcended within the events of a single day—<i>today</i>—so that all that is past, from the first day, is consummated and is anticipated; so that today is esteemed in its real dignity, as if it were the first day, as if it were the last day, as if it were the only day, as if today and eternity were one.</p><p>In this story, there is no other place actually known to human beings, except this world as it is—the place where life is at once being lived; there are no other places for which to search or yearn or hope—no utopia, no paradise, no otherworldly afterlife.</p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Stringfellow" title="William Stringfellow">William Stringfellow</a>, <i>An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land</i> (1973), p. 48</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the end? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle" title="Thomas the Apostle">The Gospel of Thomas</a> 18</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Concern with this <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> is <a href="/wiki/Darkness" title="Darkness">darkness</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>, but concern with the Hereafter is <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Uthman" title="Uthman">Uthman</a>, <i>Al-Isti'ad li Yawm al-Mia'd, p. 9</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In general, despite centuries of seances, table rapping, mediums, magicians, and all kinds of mumbo jumbo, no one has ever come up with a convincing proof of an afterlife. Apart from personal vanity, it is clearly fear of death that causes the persistent belief in a future life, despite all indications to the contrary. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Warraq" title="Ibn Warraq">Ibn Warraq</a>, <i>The Koran</i> in <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens" title="Christopher Hitchens">Christopher Hitchens</a> (ed.) <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portable_Atheist" class="extiw" title="w:The Portable Atheist">The Portable Atheist</a>,</i> p. 438</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If this life is all there is, there is no basis for any meaning, hope, purpose, or significance to life. Everything in your life would simply be a random change of fate at best, or an accident at worst. Your life, and your death, would not matter at all. The logical end of such a life is despair. Moreover, we can forget about being decent or ethical, with no basis for human dignity, rights, or liberty. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Warren" title="Rick Warren">Rick Warren</a>, pastor of the Saddleback Church and author of "The Purpose Driven Life," in "Life After Death" by Dinesh D'Souza, 2009, the foreword, pgs. x-xi.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Taken as a whole, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Correspondences" class="extiw" title="w:Cross-Correspondences">Cross Correspondences</a> and the Willet scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for life after death. For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_W._H._Myers" class="extiw" title="w:Frederic W. H. Myers">Myers</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Gurney" class="extiw" title="w:Edmund Gurney">Gurney</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Sidgwick" class="extiw" title="w:Henry Sidgwick">Sidgwick</a> went on communicating after death. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Wilson" title="Colin Wilson">Colin Wilson</a> in <i>Afterlife</i>, p. 136 (1999)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As you intend to live hereafter, it is in your power to live here. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Wolfe" title="Gene Wolfe">Gene Wolfe</a>, <i>Lake of the Long Sun</i> (1994), Ch. 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afterlife&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eternal_life_(Christianity)" title="Eternal life (Christianity)">Eternal life (Christianity)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">Death</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">Heaven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Hell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graceful_Exits:_How_Great_Beings_Die" title="Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die"><i>Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immortality" title="Immortality">Immortality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impermanence" title="Impermanence">Impermanence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paradise" title="Paradise">Paradise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">Life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mortality" title="Mortality">Mortality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Necromancy" title="Necromancy">Necromancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occultism" title="Occultism">Occultism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_Death" title="The Other Side of Death"><i>The Other Side of Death</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resurrection" title="Resurrection">Resurrection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">Reincarnation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">Soul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spiritism" title="Spiritism">Spiritism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Undead" title="Undead">Undead</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afterlife&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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