“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
Marcus Aurelius
Seems to have covered most of the bases. Have you ever encountered Roger Zelazny’s Possibly Correct Death Prayer? “Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may… Read more »
Tom:
He seems to have covered all the bases but it may not get through to the divine presence due to a lack of correct addressing. I read Zelazny’s Lord of Light many years ago and liked it but I’ve never tried any of his other books.
Oops, the above was me.
Tom