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When he was 23 years old, Dale Allison almost died in a car accident. That terrifying experience dramatically changed his ideas about death and the hereafter. In Night Comes Allison wrestles with a number of difficult questions concerning the last things—such questions as What happens to us after we die? and Why does death so often frighten us? Armed with his acknowledged scholarly expertise,...

the everlasting loss of his most cherished memories. I asked him to distill his thoughts in an email. He sent me this: I am not first and foremost afraid of this ego or self being extinguished when my body wears out.… No, what saddens and terrifies me is that my experiences and memories—the things that I learned, felt, valued, sensed, and loved—will not be remembered after I die. For example, one of my dearest memories is of me lying on a hilltop one summer night as I watched a heat lightning storm
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