One of the most important aspects of life, is in fact the truth that it will come to an end one day. Certainly most people believe in an afterlife, mostly heaven, or reincarnation, or the spirit world. Some don't and live their lives to the max knowing the inevitable. Some just make scary wall paintings as to scare Abott and Costello. But to what extent does a belief in the afterlife affect our humainly mortal lives?
A question I actually never thought of asking people. Whether you do believe in an afterlife or not, what does it influence your life if you believe in either? For perhaps one who does not believe in an afterlife it means to live this life as much as possible, a life free of inhibitions. To those who do believe, perhaps they live a life of abstinence, or a life of ignorance to many issues. There are of course many different aspects to this scenario, but I believe a belief or non belief in an afterlife very much affects our lives.
What do you believe? And how does it affect your life?
PS. I personally believe in some form of an afterlife, a spirit realm, for now to say the least. I don't think heaven is something reachable yet, if heaven actually is what everyone seems to think it is. But what would it feel like if you are laying on that bed, or anywhere you are dying where you have time to think, what would go through your mind? A believer would surely see no fear, or maybe they would if they began to question in the end? Would a non believer in the afterlife be scared? Or would they accept death?
(There's no need to question an agnostic on this matter; they can't lose).