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I was brought up in a religious family. In my early 20s I gave up religion (no regrets about that) and after that I became a very strong proponent of the view that when we die we turn to compost. I think now that that was a reaction to religion. That is, I think i felt that if I accepted some form of existence beyond death I had to believe in God and heaven and hell and all that baggage. In a way my religous background closed my mind to the other possibility of some form of existence after "death" that is not spiritual in a religious sense but physical in a purly naturalistic "scientific sense".
Having said all that I'm not saying that there is this other existence after death. I don't know. The chemical in the brain theory (to help us deal with death) is just as plausible to me and I'm just eager to find out which it is.
In addition to all the things that makes one sad about dying do you ever think how sad it is that after you die you wont be here to see how the rest of the human story unfolds. That makes me sad.
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