Some believe that when you die you go to Heaven. Some believe–including, but not exclusively those of the aforementioned group–that if you’ve been bad you’ll probably end up in the land of brimstone, damnation and fun instead.
The sticky part, of course, is that no one really knows because we’ve yet to see definitive evidence of someone keeling over dead and then shambling back from The Great Beyond to give us the inside scoop on the whole afterlife thing.
Assuming there is something that persists beyond the physical body, what would prevent those who have moved beyond physical form from stopping by to hang out and maybe explain that mysterious what-happens-after-you-expire thing? Would it cause the two realms to spontaneously poof out of existence? Are our physical brains too dumb and silly to comprehend the next phase of reality? Is The Other Side just too cool to share with lowly mortals? Do we need to patiently wait until we’ve evolved to look like those giant-headed brainiac aliens on the original Star Trek?
I must admit I’m kind of curious.
But I can wait. Say, another 50 years or so.