Vague Hopes

If we don’t think about it too much, we are easily deluded into thinking it’s obvious and unproblematic what life after death means. We all know what it means to be alive, so surely life after death simply means that we carry on living like this on the other side of the grave. But if you think about for more than a few seconds, this quickly becomes nonsensical.

Article on the Possibility of Life after Death in Dialogue, Issue 44, April 2015. Not available online.