A consequence of the uncertainty about afterlife is that people don’t think about death and therefore don’t prepare for it. It’s easier to deny it—why dwell on what you can’t change? So people typically don’t think about death until it’s too late. They don’t prepare to meet death; rather, it runs into them like a truck. So the question is, Why is there such uncertainty about life after death? After all, Christianity has taught for centuries that persons’ souls survive death and that in the end times