# Chose your own afterlife

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chose-your-own-afterlife/608487>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 5, 2012, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chose-your-own-afterlife/608487 "2012-01-05T09:37:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chose-your-own-afterlife/608487/41 "2012-01-06T07:11:13Z")

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Dolphin.

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**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chose-your-own-afterlife/608487/42 "2012-01-06T17:15:31Z")

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I don’t believe in eternal paradise. Rather, I don’t think it is possible. Eternity takes precedent over judgement. Eternity is above choice. By definition, whatever is eternal will include everything, ever. What guarantee do I have that after an eternity of years, I wouldn’t get bored of paradise? Or that the being offering it would die, or get deposed? Oblivion is the only option I would ever choose

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chose-your-own-afterlife/608487/43 "2012-01-06T17:17:29Z")

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> [@Nobody](#):
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> Oh thank you. I’d always heard that Nirvana was a shared concept between Hindus and Buddhists. Looking up moksha I see that’s only partially correct.

As is everything with Hindus, it’s way more complicated than that. Fun fact: Siddarth Gautauma, the Buddha, was totally a Hindu prince. And now there’s very very few Buddhists in India and lots of other cultures have grabbed him and run with it. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chose-your-own-afterlife/608487/44 "2012-01-06T17:59:44Z")

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The way I read it, eternal paradise is the best thing I could ever imagine. So, any other choice is redundant. Why limit myself to _only_ reincarnation or Nirvana when I can have it all?

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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chose-your-own-afterlife/608487/45 "2012-01-06T20:29:10Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> As is everything with Hindus, it’s way more complicated than that. Fun fact: Siddarth Gautauma, the Buddha, was totally a Hindu prince. And now there’s very very few Buddhists in India and lots of other cultures have grabbed him and run with it. 🙂

Yeah, I’ve read up a little on Siddarth in the past and knew that Buddhism broke off from Hinduism, which is why both share a belief in reincarnation and both have a similar “reward” at the end.

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