Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
Don’t feel embarrassed if you’ve never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors of philosophy whom I consulted had heard his name, either.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.