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The Science of Afterlife
It seems death is not the end, but another beginning — but does that “prove” any religion to be “true?”
Since I was a kid, I found the concept of death disturbing. Not sure if it has anything to do with the fact that I witnessed a relative trying to commit suicide right in front of my eyes when I was about 5 or 6 (it failed, luckily). Did that experience traumatize me in any way? I don’t know, but the truth is: though I knew something very serious and wrong was happening, I didn’t feel a thing, at least not at that moment. Maybe I was too little to know what was going on? Or maybe I “suppressed” my emotion?
I found religion — a protestant church — when I was 12, and it did provide comfort to a certain degree: after we die, we go to heaven and become a creator, live with our families with joy to eternity. I held on to this belief for years, mostly due to fear: if there is no God, then there are no consequences to any behaviors, good or bad; there’s no heaven or hell, only infinite voidness. That can’t be; death can’t be the end; this life has to mean something!
After leaving the church, I was forced to consider the possibility that there was no God/Gods, no “Higher Power,” no “order” or “meaning” in this world; that all religions were just our feeble, fruitless effort, trying to…
