Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

by David Eagleman

The conservatives have no penniless to disparage; the liberals have no downtrodden to promote.

If everyone got into heaven with equal treatment lol

because the only thing everyone can agree upon is that they’re all in Hell.

turn something good - theyre all mad

The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.

Heaven with only the people you know

you cannot appreciate the destination without knowing the starting point; you cannot revel in the simplicity unless you remember the alternatives.

The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

And that is the curse of this room: since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

“It is not the brave who can handle the big face, it is the brave who can handle its absence.”

Wicked

Here in this Purgatory, all the people with whom you’ve ever come in contact are gathered. The scattered bits of you are collected, pooled, and unified. The mirrors are held up in front of you. Without the benefit of filtration, you see yourself clearly for the first time. And that is what finally kills you.

Wow

Only sinners enjoy life after death.

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

because reminiscing about our glory days of existence is perhaps all that would have happened in an afterlife anyway.