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How To Choose An Afterlife?

At least I made a cheese reference. Which is not easy when you’re dealing with the subject of your future incarnation.
 
"I was talking on the phone to one of my friends and we were saying how many people we knew had died recently.
Then she said "I wonder if when we come back again will we recognise each other?
When our children were at playgroup we became friends and she had said that she had been my sister in Egypt.
 
This concept has been explored in literature and drama beginning in 1890 with Ambrose Bierce's astounding 1890 story 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge', which continues to influence artists.

Quoting myself'ere again -

I won't describe it because it's such a great read. If you haven't read it give it a go, and then think of all the times you've come across the same central conceit without knowing it. Terry Gilliam's Brazil? TV's Life On Mars and, yes, Holby City? Mind-blowing. All the previously-mentioned yarns derive from it.
We're watching an Alfred Hitchcock dramatisation of the story set in the American Civil War.
There he goes, off the bridge...
 
The idea of being consumed by love for eternity is also undesirable

What a strange, unhappy opinion. What could possibly be better?
 
If so, that's seem rather a short-sighted view (only in my opinion...ironically).
 
I’m coming back as a Spaniel.
Food delivered at regular intervals, walked until I want to walk no more and plonk my arse down on the grass. I will get to play in the river and chase feathered game during the season. I will have toys to chase and play with and a comfy bed to crash in and hide when I want solitude.
 
I kind of suspect for at least a time you get what you are expecting hence all the different accounts and you hang about in your make believe world until you feel it's time to move on, I think that those who don't believe have a quite a blank experience
 
I'm pretty much OK with being dragged off by some Valkyries for eternal quaffing. As long as no hangovers are involved - I remember the Oh God of hangovers from Terry Pratchett. Failing that, being porter on some bucolic railway station (there's a Tolkien short story where that happens) with missus running the refreshment rooms would do.
 
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I find non-supernaturalist ideas of an after-life fun alternatives to the more usual religious ones.

For example, the idea that this is all a simulation and we 'awake' in the real world (or another layer of simulations) after death. Maybe, 'Game Over' in the ancestor simulator.

Or maybe a far future civilisation advances to the point of being able to combine atoms whoever they choose, thus opening the possibility of recombining atoms that are 'me' with all my memories etc and then carrying on my life. Like consciousness being rebooted after sleep or anesthesia - we just slept for a really long time, lol :)

Or possibly there's an infinite universe/multiverse so there's always a 'me' alive somewhere - and possibly always surviving when 'I' die.

And then there's ideas of quantum immortality, connected to the infinite worlds idea.

There may be more ...
 
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