Cold Comfort

Many rationalists say you live on in others' memories, but admit that when all those who remember you are gone from this life, so are you. On the other hand, I have observed that the deaths of all I have known, leave a space in my mind, some large some small, that fills in with other material, often inconsequential--what's for dinner, the price of milk--that crowd out the reality of the formerly alive. They will be gone before I am. So much for rationalism as comfort.

Huis Clos

Should I assume that if I meet my family in  the afterlife (Olam Haba) and that they are pleasant,kind and generous I would be in heaven or if they are cantankerous.stingy without a good word to say, I

would be in hell.

Al-Chet

I'm not going to heaven. I posted a troll-like comment on my neighborhood Facebook page. I am hoping that deleting it will get me off heaven's no-fly list.