I have a couple of answers/hypotheses/conclusions that work for me.

* Do animals have an after life? I tend to think that everything that is capable of loving has a life beyond this one.

* Where do we go and what do we do after this life? I'm beginning to have the scary feeling that our lives and worlds get more complicated and demanding the higher we go. I say 'scary' because what if I don't measure up to the next level? At this point I see little hope of it and that means I'll be back. My conclusion accounts, I think, for the belief that many people have that we have to repeat and repeat this one.

* Where were we before we got here? A lower, less demanding level. (And we may have had to repeat that one as well!)

Well, like I said- it works for me.