Dear Gigi:

About fearing the Nothing after my death- it will be the same Nothing that was before my birth. The Nothing before I was conceived or born does not scare me; why would the Nothing after my death scare me?

It is the image of my body dead that is very unpleasant to me, I am not understanding it very well, the dead me, a sure reality. Really, I ask no one in particular, really, I will die too?

As far as hell, the idea that because you choose to not believe in hell you will be punished with hell: It is not LOGICAL to believe in hell so how can I choose to defy logic? I can choose in accordance with my logic; not against it. For example: I can’t choose to believe in jumping off a building and NOT falling down because it doesn’t make sense to ignore gravity. And so, I can’t choose to believe in hell and in a … “loving” god that will send me there after putting me through enough hell in this life.

I sure hope you feel better about this, Gigi. I was not introduced to the biblical hell concept when I was a child, when my brain was forming. I am sorry that you were and so this particular thing may be harder for you than for me…

anita