Where we go when we die

Think back to before the time your father's sperm met your mother's ovum. Remember? Of course you don't, because you or the potential you did not exist. There was no you to do any thinking or experiencing.

When we die, we go back to that same place - nowhere. We cease to exist. We disappear as suddenly as we appeared. Poof. The candle is blown out. Where did the fire go? We don't even know that we have died (so there is nothing to fear from death or dying no matter how we pass). In everyday life, something happens, then we remember it. The something that happens at the end is that we die, but since our capacity to remember is immediately extinguished, it is to us as though we never had existed. We remember absolutely nothing. We came from nothing, and we go back there.

The major difference to me is that in coming into existence, we come from nothing of ourselves, but from live pieces of the bodies of two other people. When we die, we leave behind a massive collection of cells called a body, or a big pile of carbon if we are cremated. We bring nothing with us, but we leave stuff behind.

A friend asked me if I believe this, how could I go on in life without any hope? I replied to him that if everyone felt this way, they would consider life so absolutely precious that they would do what it takes to take care of it. Life would be seen for the miracle that it is.