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What Happens After We Die?

 The world is filled with unanswered questions. Like, what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? What did dinosaurs actually look like? Who tasted candy corn, and decided that it was worthy of being sold in stores across America? And why am I posting this blog instead of the PTA Reflections story that's due next Wednesday? But the ruler of all unanswered questions is the infamous one of "What happens to your consciousness when you die"?    Do you end up in some kind of heaven or hell after you die, depending on what you've done in your life? Do you reincarnate, and become a new person? Do you just wander the Earth after you die as a ghost, witnessing events play out before you but being unable to do anything to change them? Or does it all just fade to black?  The short story "The Egg" is an interesting interpretation of what happens after you die. It starts out with an ordinary man in the modern day dying in a car crash, and waking up in an empty void. I