ABSTRACT
Beliefs about what happens to human beings at the end of their lives on Earth take many forms. Generally speaking, for those who accept a realist view of God at least, such beliefs are concerned with a continued existence of some kind. Belief in the survival of the disembodied self presupposes the belief that the self can be separated from the body. Clearly, the idea of an embodied afterlife avoids the problems associated with the idea that the mind can survive without the body. But it is not without problems of its own. Kaufman suggests that someone who is suffering for a past crime should be aware of his crime and understand why he is being punished. Kaufman argues that some people suffer such horrendous evils that it is difficult to imagine what they might have done to justify such a punishment.
