How Death Works

I have been asked a version of this question more than once in the last decade or so in my relationships with the dying and dead:

Do people who suicide get punished when they die?

If I choose to hasten my death will God be mad when I get there?

So let me, for once and for all, be super duper clear about this. God, Source, Infinity, Creator, Jester, Friend, whatever you call this energy,

does not hold grudges.

Is not punitive

Cares very much about you and very little about how and when you die.

Does not care if you have been baptized or not.

This path, through life, death, birth, repeat repeat repeat is yours. How it plays out is your business. The conditions of your life after you leave the big blue planet are entirely up to you and based on how you have behaved while you’re here.

Have you been kind?

Helpful?
Do you show up?
Do you share your resources?
Is your intention to grow and evolve?
Do you care about the world around you?
Do you pick up trash, call your mother, visit your kids?
Heal old wounds?
Take responsibility?
Are you a good listener?

Then you will also have a good existence after you die.

If you choose, while you are here to be a self-involved jerk who takes whatever you can get, put yourself before others, squander your time and energy. If you are dishonest, obsessed with what you see in the mirror, if you blame others for your problems

then you will have a lousy existence after you die, too.

It’s entirely up to you.

So I guess you could say there is a hell. Of your own making.

The question isn’t will the source of all living things be angry if I decide I’ve had enough of this life, after 87 years here, and want to stop eating and drinking? The question is have I lived a good life? Have I said what needs to be said? Have I healed the broken places?

There is no heaven, no hell. These conditions are created by you, by the ways you’ve lived your life. There is no ledger, no tribunal, no judge. There is only love available to you, always. No matter what.

If you have lived a shitty life, and you’re reading this now, congrats, you still have time to turn the ship around. If you’ve lived a shitty life and you’re going to die soon, you can still decide, at any moment, that you want to change your ways.

See how it works? Not complicated at all. The choice always has been and always will be yours.

God has precisely zero interest in punishing you. It’s you and you alone who creates the terms and conditions of your life here and your life after here. Full, robust stop. The silly narrative of a fluffy white cloud heaven reserved for specific people and a fiery inferno hell for those who have sinned is entirely propaganda, a man-made construct designed to keep humans fearful and religious people in business. Every channeled work I’ve ever read and every connection I’ve ever had with spirit gives us the exact same information: theologically-built ideas like an eternal hell are simply a useful weapon in the ecclesiastical armory and one that has caused more suffering in its time that many other erroneous doctrines.