Perhaps the most pressing concern we have as we grow older is what happens to us when we die. A focus on death is not usually a pressing issue for the young, who presumably have many years of opportunity and growth before them. But death is a pressing concern for most of us as we draw closer to the end of life, or at least the end of life as we know it.

So what happens to us when we die? If there is life after death, will I be a bodiless soul enjoying an ethereal bliss? Or does life after death include a bodily experience? But if so, which body - my current one or a restored body? And does eternal life start immediately after death, or is there a waiting period before God restores all the dead to life? But what if there is no conscious life after death. Do I simply fade away as the memories of those who knew me fade away as well? These are ...