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Originally Posted by Charlatan
When my son was very young, he was bothered that I didn't believe in Jesus and worried that I was going to hell if I died. I calmly told him why I didn't believe and that I didn't believe there was an afterlife. I treat him, have always treated him, like an adult when it comes conversations.
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If I had kids and they were asking me about the afterlife, I would in all likelihood simply tell them that one's afterlife is what they leave behind.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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