From: ssw5356@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.suicide.holiday
Subject: Re: Current Results of the Poll about Life after Death
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:05:34 GMT
Reply-To: ssw5356@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug26.035535.14725@leland.Stanford.EDU>, underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>Here is a summary of the poll that I conducted on alt.suicide.holiday.
>Basically, I asked the participants to give their opinions on what
>they thought about life after death.  I included myself among the
>participants.
>
>1.  total participants: 15
>
>2.  participants who did not
>    believe in life after death: 10
>
>    notable quotes:  "No.  I bloody well hope not!"
>                     "I wouldn't be able to live with the idea of
>                      re-living my miserable life over and over again."
>                     "No.  What a completely silly concept.  Up
>                      there with the tooth fairy."
>                     "'We are here to ruin ourselves and to break
>                       our hearts and to love the wrong people and
>                       to die.'"--plagiarized from someone else.
>
>3.  participants who are leaning
>    toward not believing in life after death: 1
>
>4.  participants who believe that
>    there is life after death: 2
>
>    notable points:  One person was clearly Christian, who typed, "That's
>                     about the extent of my opinion at this point. (by the
>                     way, I only read a.s.h because it's silly.  sometimes.)
>                     Food for thought...."
>
>                     The other person believed in heaven and hell but
>                     expressed uncertainty as to what form that they
>                     might take.
>
>5.  participants who are leaning
>    toward believing that there is
>    life after death: 1
>
>    notable points:  This person did not specify any preferences
>                     for what that life might be and just responded,
>                     "Possibly", to both the possibilities of "heaven"
>                     and "hell".
>
>6.  participants who just don't know:  1
>
>    notable quotes:  "We are born.  We suffer for a while.  Then, we die."
>
>(Unfortunately, I deleted my mail before I could think of tallying the
>countries from which I received responses.  The following is from memory.
>Besides, deleting mail before it is backed up at this site provides a better
>guarantee of anonymity for those who want it. )
>
>Participating countries:  USA, Australia, New Zealand, England,
>Sweden, and Japan (response was from a Finlander living in Japan).
>
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>Anyhow, I want to thank everyone who participated.  Perhaps, if I have time
>later in the year, I can do a more extensive poll, identifying correlations
>between culture and thoughts about death.  I'm sure that most people
>here on a.s.h. have thought about life after death.
>
>I am still taking responses if you haven't yet submitted your response.
>I'll post an update of this summary later in the week or the following,
>but the responses are clearly leaning toward the belief that there is
>_no_ life after death.  67% of the participants did not believe that
>there is life after death.
>
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>P.S.
>One person wrote, "Yes, I request it [anonymity].  (Reading a.s.h is not
>exactly something to put on your C.V. :-))"  What does "C.V." stand for?
C.V.  stands for Curriculum Vitae, an academic equivalent of a resume.

sorry I didn't get to vote.  I believe in life after death.  Perhaps that is
why death is so  attractive and the thought of death such a comfort.  I've ben
"lurking"  around   ASH for awhile.  My shrink is ambivalent about it.  bye,
Anjo.>
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