# What religion has the least appealing afterlife?

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**Created:** [September 27, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-religion-has-the-least-appealing-afterlife/511711 "2009-09-27T02:07:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-religion-has-the-least-appealing-afterlife/511711/61 "2009-10-08T15:13:43Z")

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> I think that’s horrible. That is the worst of theism and atheism together - that we have some sort of conscience that lasts beyond death and there is nothing there but laying in a wooden box and waiting for ourselves to rot.

That’s a pretty strong argument for having yourself hypnotized before death, then having someone wake you up after a couple of months.

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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:** [October 8, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-religion-has-the-least-appealing-afterlife/511711/62 "2009-10-08T15:22:14Z")

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> That’s a pretty strong argument for having yourself hypnotized before death, then having someone wake you up after a couple of months.

How…? I mean, I don’t really understand hypnotism too well (and don’t trust it much). How would it work? What would you be hypnotized to do?

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**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-religion-has-the-least-appealing-afterlife/511711/63 "2009-10-08T16:32:39Z")

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I was born Catholic and am now skirting close to athiesm.

I find the idea of the lights go out and that’s it strangely…comforting.

I don’t know if I should be worried by this/if it a sign of mental instability…but I find athiesm/lack of afterlife far from being the least appealing going by some afterlifes appearing in this thread.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-religion-has-the-least-appealing-afterlife/511711/64 "2009-10-08T16:53:35Z")

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> > That’s a pretty strong argument for having yourself hypnotized before death, then having someone wake you up after a couple of months.
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> How…? I mean, I don’t really understand hypnotism too well (and don’t trust it much). How would it work? What would you be hypnotized to do?

> **[The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Facts_in_the_Case_of_M._Valdemar)**
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> "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by the American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also to a certain degree a hoax, as it was published without claiming to be fictional, and many at the time of publication (1845) took it to be a factual account. Poe admitted it to be a work of pure fiction in letters to his correspondents.
> The narrator presents t...

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