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"That's not funny"

"I'm serious"

Shannie kept her eyes on the road - her hands on the wheel "That's bullshit How do you knoe just don't end up in a hole"

"I don't want to talk about it"

"You brought it up What makes you so cocksure there's an afterlife?"

"What makes you so sure there ain't?" I replied

"Didn't say there wasn't, but I' there is It doesn't make any sense It's not like there's a heaven out there It's not like you ates I don't think it's a place, it's like it's a state of being When your dead how can you be?"

"You can be dead"

"Yeah you can, but that's it - you're dead Dead o somewhere"

"Soul-smole Who says there's a soul?" Shannie answered

"There has to be How do you explain, like, the light at the end of the tunnel stuff?

Shannie shrugged "If that does happen, it's the body's way of tricking us Kinda like the ultimate survival instinct, you know, it tricks us, "