I once had a colleague suggest to me that once you’re in the ground, that’s it, you’re just worm food.

Whilst I agree with that empirically, I can’t shake off the thought that there’s more to life than what we measure, and do believe in an afterlife of sorts; our consciousness merging into a higher one in the form of an energy captured in our interactions on this planet, or as some kind of not-yet measured ‘mental wave’

In any case, I talk to gravestones when I’m there alone