continuing notes on the nature and geography of Purgatory (CNOTNAGOP)

Once you get there, being dead is no more special than being alive and the one lesson life should have taught you is that any future state dreamed of is neither as fearful or desirable as it first appeared. I couldnt have conceived of this in life and neither will you on hearing this - but - i was asked to do it and here it is. I wrote the whole thing down and kept reading it back until i thought it sounded right. In 1998, the difference between Heaven and Hell had already narrowed to nearly nothing. maybe it just came down to one or two seemingly minor choices made at seemingly insignificant moments. Of course, you might never get to understand which ones they were, let alone have an opportunity to re-do them if that's what you'd want to do, but it was nice to be asked. So, here goes.....