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I suppose its kind of like ignorance is bliss, but I am fairly sure that believers of some type of afterlife (while maybe less analytical or even rational) are happier and more at peace when someone they love dies and when there own demise approaches.

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Unfortunately, I think you are right. Religion is a drug, really. An "opiate for the people", someone might say. You don't think rationally while doped up on opium... but you aren't in pain anymore, either.