Facing Death with Self-respect and Dignity

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Joe Louis ... Oh my dear Joe Louis, wanting to go to heaven is just as silly and just as stupid at the same time. Silly, because the day we are born is the day we also begin to live in a dying body; and stupid, because even the bible says there is no such thing as life after death: "The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward for the memory of them is forgotten." Eccl. 9:5... For my part, as an atheist, I say it again: the good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. It is, in this way, that we atheists, when it is time to face death, we die sober, and not drunk with illusions, confusions, or delusions. Poch Suzara