Let’s assume that a heaven does exist, and it is THE place you want to be for your afterlife. Let’s also assume a hell does not, but rather, not getting into heaven means that you are reincarnated.

Now, the criteria to get into heaven is not based on a God’s judgment, but a people’s judgment. The people that attend your funeral when you pass away, the people that will remember you as a good or a bad person. How they think of you by the end of that funeral affects your passage.

If the arrangement for heaven worked out like this, and those who were to expire in maybe a year or two were notified ahead of time, but could not tell anyone else (as it would mean automatic reincarnation), how would they adjust their lives in relations to others? It’s one thing to know that you’ll be dead on a certain date, but it’s another to know that your future depends on your relationships with those you knew.

And how many would try so hard and realize it’s too late?

I do not believe in a heaven, hell, or the common ideal of reincarnation, but I live my life pretending if this was the case.