the afterlife
We Talked to Jason Segel About the Afterlife
The 'Discovery' actor chats about his new movie, second chances, and his personal idea of what hell is like.
When I Died and Came Back, I Left Something on the Other Side
I died on August 19, 2011, near my house in Mesa, Arizona. I was fully engulfed by blackness. That's all there was. I was not in my body, I was not with my body, I was not part of my body, but for a while I was still somehow aware of it all.
My Dead Grandparents Make My Mom Win Big in Vegas
Two years ago my mother's mother, my baubie, suddenly passed away—and ever since, my mom’s been unstoppable at gambling. I’m a staunch atheist, and yet I'm pretty sure my dead grandparents have given my mom the power to win big in Vegas.
John Martin Fischer Is Going to Solve the Afterlife
In July, a philosopher named John Martin Fischer was awarded a five million dollar grant to oversee a philosophical, theological, and scientific study on the question of immortality. We called him up to talk about his project, some spectral...
Is There a Hell?
The idea of heaven—that you’ll be rewarded for good behavior by playing a harp in the clouds—is pretty silly, but hell seems much more likely to exist. If there is a God, based on his behavior in the past he’s probably more concerned with punishing us...
