>>21035393You might say that there are huge criminals such as Henry VIII of England, or the monstrous Joseph Stalin of former Soviet Russia who died in bed! So they seem to have avoided all consequences.
But you should now be able to see that first of all, none avoided the consequences of a warped nature filled with memories of its horrible misdeeds. You may now say that external crimes in others demand external consequences as well. You are perfectly right in this, and a free universe must, as we saw, be a consequence-carrying universe.
Thus the very fact of freedom including consequence, as it does, means that physical death is not the end of personal experience; and that there is necessitated something beyond molecular dissolution, if only to provide for the continuing stability of consequence or justice, and hence the continuance of freedom itself.
