It's interesting that I just saw this post, because I was just thinking about this yesterday ~last night. Actually I've thought about it a million times, but maybe for different reasons than some. I'm agnostic. I "kind of" believe in God, and am really on the fence about the idea of Heaven. (I don't really think about Hell, or if there is one.) But I have always really WANTED to believe in God and the concept of a "sweet afterlife". And I once experienced.....without one bit of doubt.....my spirit leaving my physical body, and looking at it from above. And it had nothing to do with a "near death" experience, which made it all the more amazing. To be honest, one of the main reasons I think about all this is that, having suffered from depression for pretty much all my life, sometimes pretty severe (I'm in my 50's now).....I often think about how much easier it might be to take if I could believe in some kind of peace coming if I could just hold out until death.....unstead of just passing on into nothingness. For all of our sakes, I hope something wonderful is out there...... ~whimsy