Melissa Modolo "where do we go?"

It seems strange to me that everyone wants to come up with some sort of belief. People are either Christian or Muslim or Hindu or whatever but they all believe in something that happens when you die. Even athiests who claim they don't believe anything actually believe something because thinking that nothing happens after you die is still a belief. Why do we all need to believe something about death? I feel like we're all setting ourselves up for dissappointment. We can only experience four dimensions in our body but we can't even imagine what we can experience without our bodily limitations. The chances that what really happens after death is one of the choices humanity has created is pretty slim. I mean anything at all could happen that is outside of the possibilities we are capable of imagining. My friend died a week ago exactly and I can't stop thinking about where he went. But really I feel like I shouldn't waste my time wondering what happens because there is no way I will ever reach a conclusion. We will all get there eventually and I guess at that point we will each get to see for ourselves. Everyone has to do it so I can't imagine it's that bad. I mean think of the beginning of our lives. Our mothers suffer nearly intolerable pain giving birth to us. It's probably the worst pain they will ever experience. And in the end most mothers would say that having children was the best thing that ever happened to them. All that we can see of death is the childbirth part. It's the pain and unpleasant lurking danger that we can see, but what happens after is still hidden from us. If we all have to go through it, then there must be something waiting on the other side. Hopefully it is like having children in that there is immense good waiting to be found after the bad. In the meantime I see no point in coming up with theories about what is there.