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"Innocent suffering is only possible to explain if there is life after death" Discuss The above statement is referring to the infamous "Problem of Evil" in combination with various ideas of immortally. Yet the first proviso for this statement to be acceptable, is that this post-mortem life must have some sort of judging system where the "innocent" are rewarded and the guilty punished. Which in turn results in a need that, for those that "suffered innocently", life after death must be pleasurable to satisfy this statement. Mankind is almost universally concerned about the prospect of an afterlife; it is not just a theological issue, since many who would not consider themselves to be believers find the prospect of a post-mortem existence highly desirable. Perhaps the idea of life after death derives from an inherent fear off death in all human beings. The alternative, extinction, is inconceivable. As contingent beings there must be...

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