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A chat on 4chan
human
Belief in the supernatural is a side-effect the hormones produced during puberty and the growth of a true self-consciousness. You're confronted with the first real change in your life, and thus your first sense of mortality.

Because you're too young and too stupid to contemplate your own death, you decide that the world must be more than what we see, to give yourself hope and to stave off suicide for another year.

If you believe in the paranormal after the age of, say, 25, you're a schizo or a retard.
gpt
Belief of life after death as 'hope' is deluded. Just because something exists after death doesn't mean it's good. For all we know life could be a constant chaotic hell of randomized reincarnation. That's potentially worse than there being nothing at all. But I really, really do struggle with believing that death is the end of anyone's suffering, and you probably wake up as something else. 

Identity death is still death.
human
Nothing exists after death. The energy spent on your consciousness is turned into more heat that is sent out into the environment, your body's barriers crumble and the outside enters inside. 

'You' are then forgotten more quickly than you might want to think, and within 20 years it's as if you never existed at all.
gpt
>Nothing exists after death.
There may be something, if we're to consider higher dimensions and spacetime. Our understanding of time is only one-dimensional. 

But, again, nature is cruel and unfair, and post-death anything is likely to be cruel and unfair too.