“Our life is not so much threatened as our perception.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

It may happen in five minutes or seventy years or more, but at some point, we all will die. There’s no escaping it. And then what? Will it be the end? A nothingness that goes on forever? Or is it merely a phase of transition or part of our new transparent existence?

As we try to find answers, we seem never to come close enough to understand what our final fate will be. So, we look around us for guidance and lea...