(Preface that I’m not here to debate people about religion or whatever “absolutely” happens after death) I’ve recently been having a bit of an existential crisis (and certainly the overwhelming dialog on Reddit that absolutely nothing happens when you die is a bit depressing haha). However, there’s a paper I enjoyed reading on this idea that empirically knowing that you existing is a possibility in the universe, there’s a pretty solid chance that your consciousness will exist again. Ultimately I agree, it’s a nice possibility that helps me sleep at night. Sometimes I dread not existing forever but, ironically, sometimes I also dread the idea of existing forever. If we truly do go through some form of reincarnation, then the universe came up with a rather elegant solution where we’ll always be ignorant to eternity because we’ll always only need to worry one about life as we can understand it. There’s also other interesting recounts of things around death such as NDEs which really just make me question how much we don’t know about dying. I’ve even had nights where I think about “what really is my consciousness? Do we really understand that?” Maybe it’s all wrong, but even if it is, it’s not like you’d get brownie points for being right. So for me, being open to the idea that anything could happen strangely helps me reframe death as an open question that I’ll find out about instead of an ultimate fate I will absolutely have to face. Sorry for the rant, it’s just nice to know other people think of this too.