bull shit yes, and yet...

I have been convinced that an after-life is the kind of placebo Christians have dreamed up to comfort themselves or keep their sorry asses in check.
As for near-death experiences: I think the light at the end of the tunnel is the result of a few brain cells lingering in the after-glow of dying. After that, it is darkness visible, the big nada, the big black hole of where we came from. I have been a skeptic since puberty and........ well, then I end up with an old-soul son who has been telling me about his "previous lives" since he was 3. As I have told on this blog, thoughts of dying gave me allergies when I was 9 but my son, who is 9 now told me this in the car the other day after I asked him if he was ever afraid of dying:
"No mom, not one bit..."
"So it does not keep you awake at night?" I asked him, wondering what koolaid he'd been drinking.
"Mom," he said then, 100% convinced of himself, "I am not afraid mom, because I know it is not the end. Trust me: I have been there..."

Bullshit?! Yes. But not in the world according to William...