[ WP ] You never believed in an afterlife , but you 've just died and discovered the truth is more horrifying than anything you could have imagined .

I woke up. There seemed to be no one around me. I had no idea where I was. I did n't remember what I'd been doing before going to sleep. Come to think of it, I did n't seem to remember much of anything. 
 
 Everything was black. I could n't see so much as a glimmer of light anywhere. What was this place? Had I always been here? Or was there something else? 
 
 I decided to stand up, but something was n't right. I could n't seem to feel my body. Not my hands or my feet or anything. In fact I could n't feel anything at all. I do n't know how long I was there in the darkness, but nothing changed. Finally, I spoke. 
 
 `` Who am I? What am I? Where am I?'' I asked the questions aloud, but no sound came out. Come to think of it, I'd not heard a sound since awakening. 
 
 I still could n't see. I could hear no sound. I could n't feel anything. I was completely and utterly alone. 
 
 Again, I do n't know how long it lasted. I do n't know how long I sat or stood or whatever it was that I did. But at some point I remembered. I had been ill. I had been in a hospital. Before that, I had been a doctor. A husband. A father. Somehow, I knew what those things were. I could see them in my mind. Yet, I still could see nothing with my eyes. 
 
 I remembered good days. Laughing with my wife. Playing with my children. Times spent with friends. I could remember being young. Growing up on a farm. Dogs. Cats. Cows and chickens. Playing in the creek. Drinking cool water from the hose. 
 
 I remembered saving people. And I remembered watching others die. And then I realized what had happened. I died there in the hospital. It was beyond comprehension -- I never considered life after death. I'd seen life end too many times. Yet, I remembered clearly taking my last breath. And I knew that I was, in fact, not breathing now. 
 
 `` So this is death?'' No sound. No answer. 
 
 `` Is this Hell?'' No sound. No answer. 
 
 `` It certainly is n't Heaven?'' 
 
 I could n't hear. Not even my own voice. I could n't see. I could n't feel even my own body. I could remember a good life, but I could n't reach it again. I was alone in a way no one should ever be. I was alone in a way I never imagined. I was and I still am. I've been here an eternity. I suppose I still have another ahead of me.
