And Then?

So. Life sucks and then you die. But lately, I have been pondering exactly what happens after you die anyways.

My cynical self is telling me that nothing happens; we simply rot in a coffin (or wherever you happen to be buried... not everyone is so lucky) or you're burned up and your ashes are shipped off to your closest living relative. That's it, there's nothing else to it.

But then I wonder; what about a person's soul? And what about reincarnation. Since so many religions believe in it, surely there is something backing that idea. I don't think that I would want to come back as a house fly or anything though...

Really, I wonder what happens. If a person does indeed have a soul, is it recycled into a new person, a new body? If you were good in life, does that make a difference?

You see even now that there are tv shows on the air all about ghosts haunting someone or some place until they have fulfilled their duty and can move on. There are even ones about reincarnated sould helping to solve mysteries... or something like that. I don't really know since I don't watch them, but they have to be popular enough to warrant even filming them.

Then there's the question of heaven or hell. While I'm skeptical as to either of them even exist, I'm pretty sure that I haven't been that good of a person to walk through those pearly gates. Besides, knowing me as I do, I like the underground better and it would be nice to never have to deal with snow ever again.

It's all such a mystery to me, and even though my curiosity wants to be fulfilled, I sure hope that it doesn't happen for a long while.

Then again, when it's your time, it's your time. I could be shot tomorrow by a cracked out whore who holds up the pharmacy... That would suck but it sure would make for a good story!