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Life after Death: A Fate Worse than Death

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I do not believe in life after death. My belief in it was never strong, and I discarded it gradually. Life has seemed much pleasanter since I gave up subscribing to the horrible fantasy that it would go on forever.

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Notes

  1. B. Russell, History of Western Philosophy (London, 1961) p. 156.

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  2. S. Hastings, Nancy Mitford (London, 1986) p. 233.

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  3. D. Cupitt, Only Human (London, 1985).

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© 1995 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Wilson, A.N. (1995). Life after Death: A Fate Worse than Death. In: Cohn-Sherbok, D., Lewis, C. (eds) Beyond Death. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375970_16

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