Beforelife

The roads men choose in the beforelife lead to infinite joy or infinite misery in the afterlife.

Imagine that before any of us is born, we all get together in the beforelife (the pre-birth version of the afterlife) for a meeting to design the rules that will govern society.

The point is that, however secular our culture may be, notions of an afterlife (and/or a beforelife) seem to be dying rather hard.