Life After Death? No

Many people have a common fear of death, even myself. Life is short, it goes by fast and there is nothing we can do to stop it or slow it down. That is the scary factor to me, how time is at a fixed rate, a ticking clock that never stops. We like to consider the human life lasts one hundred years approximately, although sadly, in many cases lives are taken way earlier than the expected one hundred years. But what happens when death takes over us? Where do we go? I personally do not believe in a life after death. I do not think there is some other realm we go to when we die. I also do not believe that we become "reborn" into another body after our own body has past. I can understand those beliefs to an extent, but to me they just don't add up. I do, however, believe in heaven and hell. Which I guess some might say, "well those are considered other realms to go to after death", but I do not see as heaven and hell as realms. I think when people die, they will be sent to where they belong. Obviously, the people who go to hell are people with bad intentions and who do not have good in their hearts. Heaven, on the other hand, hold people who lost their lives too soon, or people who lived their lives with a good heart.

With believing in a heaven and a hell, I will never know for sure that they are true until I pass. No one knows for sure where we will go, or what happens after death takes us. Once a person dies, it is not like they can come back to life, tell us what happens, and go back to being dead. If only it worked that way. We would all have the answer and rest assured knowing what happens when our hearts are no longer beating. Death is my biggest fear, and especially since a health condition I have puts me in more danger of dying than the typical person, it makes me sick to my stomach. Even thinking of my loved ones passing away gives me a headache full of depression. Even though I believe in a heaven, and that I will see them again someday, it still has an uneasy feeling of heaven not existing at all. Believing in a heaven also gives me reassurance of loved ones that have already passed. I like to think that they are up there, having a party that my family members who are still alive just haven't been invited to yet. Everything happens for a reason, we die at a certain time for a reason. I just hope that one day, when I'm invited to that party, that I will feel no pain and no sadness that the life down on earth gives us.