Life Lessons from Albus Dumbledore: Death is an Adventure

Lesson 3: “After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

Andy has often told me that he would become immortal if given the chance. He doesn’t like the idea of dying without knowing whether or not there is an afterlife.

I’m a bit more circumspect about the whole thing. I’m not confident that there is an afterlife. In any case, I feel that it’s my responsibility to live as if there were no afterlife. Because if this life is all I’ve got, I should try to get as much out of it as I can.

But even if there is no afterlife, I would still not select immortality. Why? Because this life would become boring and torturous if we lived it forever. What’s more, death is the only thing that sustains continued life on this planet. If we could choose to never die, but also to never see a newborn baby, what would we say?

Would we really give up fresh and hopeful new life simply because we are afraid of the unknown? I certainly would not.