Where do we go when we die and are you afraid?

[Porcupine]

And in regard to not fearing death, how I wish I had your confidence. It would be great for my mind to be at ease but I'm always wondering "what if?"

Keep worrying like that, I say. The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

By the way, I've always wondered, Why don't atheists TRY to believe? The way I see it is, you've got nothing to lose. (Although false faith is not a good thing).

I don't try to believe in anything. I wouldn't even if I were to become a theist (not that I'm not. What is God?). There is no trying---there is only being. Mental strife is an illusory thing based on a false conception of the mind that only serves to bewilder us and make us suffer. I hope that one day, you shall be free. Persist in your folly. Eventually you will give up .... that may be painful. But eventually you will give up in a way that doesn't resist your life and doesn't resist your being. You will not only give up but you will give up on giving up, too. You will realize that even hope is a sort of surrender and acceptance once you stop fighting yourself and you remove all wishing and grasping and 'if only' and 'why me?' from the picture. And I am not asking you to change or to try harder. It's okay to feel such things. I'm not telling you what to do. Persist in being the way you are as it's all you can do anyway. Go ahead. Keep at it. See what happens. See where that leads you. And maybe one day you will be free by realizing that you are unfree but you will be okay with that. There is nothing more liberating than no longer feeling the need to be at war with your self.