Hi Curious George,

I always loved that story as a child....

This topic IS on topic and I think you should put it on the on topic forum, definitely. 

I think you are doing the right thing by investigating this thing from different angles.  It is natural to be discouraged sometimes when you are a "private eye detective" so to speak.

Lots of people just accept a prefabricated view of the afterlife, or simply deny its existence.  It takes courage to face it head on and look it squarely in the face.

But there is a lot of joy in this exploration too.  I hope you will stay here and discover more as you go along.

I am like you in that I sometimes feel that I just don't have enough evidence. Without actually "doing the thing" by which I mean actually dying, our egoic brain will not accept that it could change in any radical way.  That is too threatening to it.

It would rather not think about death at all, or simply deny that it will really happen to it.

Isn't that silly?

Death is a part of life, as we can see all around us in the natural world.  There is an order to all things. And regeneration is a natural law.

I think that as I have gone inside with meditation and continued to read and interact with people who do not deny death itself I find that life becomes more precious every day.

If you think about it, you go into the blackness every night when you go to sleep. Is it an empty place where nothing happens? Not for me!

Some people say, as above, so below.  The more you look and see fully around and within you I believe you will notice a natural pattern to everything, and death is just part of that pattern.

much love, and yes, bring this to the on topic area!     blink