I mean, if there is a heaven, then why not go there now? Thinking of my own life, if I had been killed at 17 and, presumably, gone to heaven, then I would have spent the last 33 years in heaven. That's gotta be way better for me than the 33 years I spent on earth. No teeth getting pulled. No horrible cases of poison ivy. No working the night shift in a hot, dirty, noisy factory. No nights spent throwing up because my stomach refused to settle down. No contretemps with members of the opposite sex. True, I would miss some of the good times too, I think there have been perhaps as many as four of them. My little brother would not have gotten Kareem Abdul Jabbar's autograph for his birthday. DU would have missed my thought-provoking, informative, and hilarious posts. There may have been two of those. My 14 grand-puppies would never have been born. 22,000+ toilets would have been cleaned by somebody else. Etc.
I mean, I would hope that my parents and siblings and classmates would be upset, for a while, but how would I not have been a trillion times better off? The world might be a slightly worse place, I think, on balance, but probably not in a really noticeable way.
Zimmerman gave a horrible, stupid answer, but when I consider it, it seems that nothing that happens on earth really matters in the big picture/long run.
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