Most of us at the very least wonder about our own immortality and many people are convinced that there is something beyond death, beyond the blackness of the grave.
But increasingly, science presents us with a picture of a much more mechanical universe in which there is no absolute mo.
We are taught that the universe is essentially moral and that there are absolute human values.
In Western Judaeo-Christian culture we absorb from an early age the idea that virtue now has its own reward - later.
Most of us at the very least wonder about our own immortality and many people are convinced that there is something beyond death, beyond the blackness of the grave