Worried about your afterlife? Here's the perfect solution...

Are you concerned about what happens after you die? For those steadfast in your religious beliefs, I envy you if the picture painted for you is a rosy one. Otherwise, you might want to start doing whatever you can to ameliorate your situation - if it is at all possible. A large number of people in this world belongs to one religion or another. Yet in my opinion, it is not sufficient to merely claim. Someone may claim to be e.g. Christian but in fact has no more love for Christ than the average man. If your faith is not strong enough, I have my reservations that whatever fanciful dreams of afterlife you have concocted will come true. But of course, I am just speculating ignorantly on things far beyond my limited understanding and knowledge. Last night though, I came upon a perfect solution. One reason many people fear dying is that they fret over what will happen to them after. Are there polarized extremes like heaven and hell? Is there reincarnation - what manner of man, woman or beast will they be reborn into? Are they doomed to wander forever as spirits either here or... somewhere? Or is there really no afterlife at all - that they simply reach the end of their mortal journeys and just slip into sweet velvet sleep? I am sure there are more uncertainties about the afterlife that I have not managed to list above. No one is going to point a pistol at you and force you to admit if you fear dying. Only you yourself truly know, and why. So instead of leaving what happens after to circumstances you have no control over, why not take control of your after by not meeting it? I am not suggesting that you run away from the issue somehow. Rather, the solution is to simply make sure that you will never encounter it. Let's assume that technology and resources allow and you voluntarily choose to suspend your life. Before you breathe your last, you arrange to begin a permanent sleep. Medical equipment will be hooked to your body to sustain it forever - much like how the life of a brain-dead person is sustained. Granted that the human body is still subject to normal wear and tear, but I am positive technology will soon evolve such that even if immortality of the soul is not possible, that of the flesh will be. So when this happens, you are effectively in a situation where you are just sleeping forever, and alive. It is true that you will never wake up again but we are not trying to fight death here. We are dealing with the possibility of afterlife and sleeping forever means that you will never reach this crossroad of life and death. So it does not matter at all what the afterlife holds - or if there is one at all - because it will never happen to you! Hence this is the beauty of this solution - no more uncertainty about what happens after and you may perhaps even find the motivation to make this one and only life a meaningful and well-lived one. Have fun dreaming, my friends. Meanwhile, try to fill up your pockets so that you can take advantage of this solution when the situation arises. =)