Because I Couldn' Stop for Death

[ceasetoexist]

[Well Pokey has had a busy week. Tripping balls over hallucinogenic gas. Bothering a bunch of people and running through their yards as he tried to get away from his hallucination. Getting beaten to death. Beating to death the drone of the person who beat him to death. Getting droned for beating that person to death.

Needless to say, getting killed and then killing someone in the span of a few days has brought a question to mind.]

Hey. Yeah. I’m curious.

Like I know we don’t die here, not really since we come back…what do you all think happens to us after we really do die? Like, do you believe in a Heaven and Hell and all that jazz, or something else, or nothing at all?

Comments

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Nothing. the end. Welcome to oblivion. Or so I thought. I died back home and woke up here. So you tell me.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's kinda what I thought too.

Huh. That's kinda disturbing then.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. So my guess is that there is a Hell, and it's called Mayfield.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I don't really believe in it so much anymore, but there's definitely a hell.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Why's that?

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Why's what? That there's gotta be a hell?

[anguiscantus.livejournal.com]

For most, all that awaits them is the void.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

So just nothing?

Yeah, I can dig that.

[anguiscantus.livejournal.com]

For the majority. Others... others may be given the chance to fight for their existence. Most fail.

1/2

[ponypuncher.livejournal.com]

Yer the weirdest runt I've ever met.

Re: 1/2

[ponypuncher.livejournal.com]

Ya've got Asgard 'n ya got Hel. Hel ya got ruled by the Goddess of the same name, and Odin 'n his wife Frigg rule over Asgard. Odin's got Valhalla, and Freyja has Fólkvangr.

[stay-cool-bro.livejournal.com]

Your soul goes back to the origin of all souls, the great spirits. Within it are kingdoms, and each one reflects a belief. People of like beliefs end up in the same kingdom, the afterlife they believe they deserve. So anyone who goes to Hell is there because they have a guilty conscience and whether they acknowledged it or not when they were alive, they want to atone. They chose to go to Hell.

... Unless they're like me and they got shunted there for training. But, I guess that's kinda irrelevant.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

What about people who don't believe there's an afterlife at all. Where do they go?

Wait, what? You're telling me you've been to Hell?

[pinkplumblossom.livejournal.com]

Depending on who you ask, the people in my house would either tell you that your spirit reincarnates in a new vessel, travels to the afterlife, or that you are granted immortality if you've lived a good and virtuous life.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Okay.

And what do you think happens?

[wolf-faerie.livejournal.com]

There's another life after you die.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah?

What's it supposed to be like?

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

Well there's the desert. I'm not really sure what happens after that because I managed to get back. I suppose you'd have to cross it to find out.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Well okay thanks for the answer that gave me absolutely nothing.

[friendly-ghosts.livejournal.com]

Ummm, If you have something that you really can't leave behind, then you become a ghost.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Well, I know ghosts exist. It's...kinda like that where I'm from, but different too.

[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

If you do terrible deeds, then you are sent to Hell.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Oh man.

Never heard that chestnut before.

[insectoidalien.livejournal.com]

Members of my species have their consciousness transferred to a hivemind.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

How do they do that, exactly? And I'd assume you'd need a body in order to do that, so what do you think happens if, say, the body gets destroyed somehow? Like incineration?