“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark,” – Stephen Hawking
“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.â€- Mark Twain
We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?- Noel Coward
We don’t really understand most of what’s happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows. – David Eagleman
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“Why do people contemplate, and commit, suicide ? Generally, to eradicate pain (be asleep, in a state of bliss, simply cease to be in existence, or exist in a ‘better’ realm/state) ~~ believing/hoping that the act of suicide and/or the aftermath — [the state of] ‘death’ / ‘after-life’ — will be (at least) less painful than [continuing to live with/through] the physical/psychological pain one is experiencing.” ~–~ Anon
No one asks to be born, but many ask to be dead.
-driftz86