rikkilake wrote:
but doesn't the afterlife imply death? you don't go to an afterlife when you're still alive.
Physical death, yes. You, as gatekeeper, get to decide who of those queued before you have earned passage, and are worthy, of a level up.

The ones you deny would simply blink out, OR, go back to try again if you prefer the Hindu version. The question is: What would make them worthy, in your eyes?
Good show, Dotz! T. S. Eliot answers you all!
"I have measured out my life in coffee spoons"
Dotzilla wrote:
"I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different."
"In my end is my beginning."
Aestu wrote:
Self-identity is what gives life meaning. This is also why I love cats and hate dogs.
“When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind changes.”
Akiina wrote:
Death be not proud, though some have called thee"
“And I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning striding behind you or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
Tehra wrote:
See you on the other side.
“What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”