I'm actually going to write a will stating that my funeral must take place on the top of a mountain. Snow will be packed to form a track leading up to the edge of a very very high cliff. The urn holding my ashes will be bolted to my skis, and I will be launched off the cliff by way of small rocket boosters attached to my skis. The sendoff will be accompanied by Styx - Renegade. Then a video screen would be erected, and a compilation of pictures would play as a slideshow of me and my friends and family doing crazy stuff. This would be accompanied by Pixies - where is my mind. Then the beer would be cracked open, and everyone would have a good time and go skiing. Oh, and "heaven is a halfpipe" would be performed by my best friend's band, only he would have to alter the lyrics to apply to skiing and not skating.
I realize that wasn't the answer to the question, but hey, it's cool. As for what happens when we die, my beliefs run more along the lines of reincarnation. Not coming back as another person or animal or something like that, but that our energy is redistributed back into the universe.
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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass.
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