What age are you, for eternity, in the afterlife?
Imagine that there is an afterlife, or heaven, or whatever you want to call it. What age are you?
Would we be the age we are when we die, so it would be full of mostly old people? Do babies that die remain infants for eternity? And if so, who takes care of them? (the old people?)
Do we spend eternity at some "ideal" age, when we are most physically fit and of sound mind? That means all of humanity would spend eternity together being the same age. Everyone we know - our parents, siblings, grandparents, kids, friends - all together, at our ideal age, forever.
Or are we disembodied, separated in eternity from any mortal form?
Just curious.
Posted Oct 6, 2013, 1:11 AM UTC
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I think we get to choose our age. Then you could be what ever nostalgic age you feel for, or whatever age you longed to be.
I really like your answer. What age do you pick? And I wonder if most of us would pick the same age, like somewhere 20-30?
I'm fifteen, so I'd most likely pick fifteen. Right now I'm pretty happy.
Have you ever read The Five People You Meet In Heaven? It does a great representation of this.
That's a good age to pick. I honestly can't think of an age I'd pick, maybe a little older like 18 because I felt like I had a lot more energy then, then I do now in my early 30s. I also think I might choose to be a male instead, for eternity.
I'll have to read it. Thanks for the suggestion. I read quite a few books on death and dying, and the afterlife, in a class I took in college called the philosophy of death. Unfortunately, like a lot of philosophy (my major) most were very pessimistic, so I came away really only thinking deeply about the sadness and despair of death (like Sartre and Kierkegaard). I don't believe in afterlife, myself, just curious to wonder about it. Thanks for your thoughts.
Oh yah I didn't even think of gender changing.
And you're welcome. Go check it out. I's a pretty quick read and has a lot of wonderful points about what "heaven" really means. It plays with what different people of different lifestyles think of as paradise.
Say, for instance, your wife died at 55, but you lived to 75, I think you would choose to be the same age as when your loved one died, assuming they died before you
But what if they choose a different age? The problem with having the ability to choose your own age is that, well, everyone else gets to choose theirs too. What if your mate chooses 18, and you choose 75?
assuming you can only choose your age once