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Given the bliss of the next life, what is the value of this life?
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I've heard it argued by atheists that belief in the world to come makes the current world irrelevant. Indeed, there are also saints and theologians who say things like, "I count my current suffering as nothing when compared to the life to come".

However, treating moral life as an insignificant blip before everlasting life could have some radical consequences when it comes to morality. For instance, why is it immoral to kill a person if it just moves them from a world of suffering to a world of joy? Why is anything we do to another person wrong if it will have no impact in the next and most prominent stage of their life, immortality?

I, myself, am prone to suicidal ideation, but what keeps me alive is the knowledge that my death would cause misery to some people I care about. However, the modern world makes it very difficult to form such connections, and I know that my parents, who are elderly, are the only ones who would be truly devastated by my passing. So, once my parents pass on, why is it wrong for me to fast forward to something better by ending my mortal life?

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