I've said it often enough before - I don't want any part of an eternal afterlife that I can't opt out of at any time I choose. I already have that freedom in this life, despite its transience; to be denied it post mortem, if such a thing is real, ought to be part of the definition of hell if it isn't already. Even if, as I desperately wish, I get to spend eternity with my precious Sam (and now Shell), there will inevitably come a point when we choose oblivion together rather than endure another moment of existing.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
