I know, I know. Who’s to say life before birth is all that bad, right? I mean you get to float around in warm water, get fed intravenously, and travel safe wherever you go. Maybe that is what happens after life as well. How are we to know.
The quote made me wonder and so, here are my profound questions of the day. Do you exist before conception? If so, where and in what form? If not, then how do we end up living for eternity given that we had a specific starting point in time before which we did not exist?
Just something light to think about as you go about your day.
Drawing © Marty Coleman
“Life after death can’t be much worse than life before birth.” – Jorge Wagensberg, 1948 – not dead yet, Spanish academic
>I love this quote! I wrote a song that used the same idea about Vivian's death:
"and it feels like she's been born again,
except this time it's in reverse,
and its a little more painful and thoughtful than,
the marvel of her birth"
Instead of thinking that there is life before life (or consiousness, being, etc), this quote reminds me of how simple it is to imagine that there is NO life after death. We are raised thinking there is a heaven and hell, of course, and it is sometimes hard to imagine that there might not me. I'm comforted by the idea that "Me" has a specific begining and end, and them I go back to the earth- the same molecules that create birth elsewhere.