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occurs to people, the things that they think about
are of domestic nature like: ‘What will happen
to my children after I die?’ In fact, most of their
life is spent in safeguarding their children’s
future, but no efforts are made to insure their
own life ahead. From their attitude, it seems as
if only their children will survive them, and that
they themselves will be non-existent and so they
really have nothing to prepare for. They are
totally unaware of the fact that there is a life
after death. Whereas the fact of the matter is
that, the real life only commences after our death.
If people only realized that when they are buried,
they are actually being ushered into another
world, they would be more worried about
themselves rather than about their children’s
future. This is because most people, whether
religiously or agnostically inclined, are not
convinced about the afterlife. Two factors cause
one to have doubts about life after death. Firstly,
on dying, every human being turns into dust and
all traces of his body are effaced. How then can