Forty Tales from the Afterlives

"Sum, Forty Tales from the Afterlives" is a book well worth reading. The publisher describes it as:

A clever little book by a neuroscientist translates lofty concepts of infinity and death into accessible human terms. What happens after we die? Eagleman wonders in each of these brief, evocative segments.

Sum is incredibly creative and humorous. Even thought-provoking in a way that can change the way one looks at things. One of the afterlife scenarios in the book describes an afterlife populated only by people you met during life on Earth. Maybe it was just a shared glance in an elevator but they are all there. This seems comforting for a long time but after a while it occurs to you that you can never meet anyone new - that your afterlife is forever limited and there's no such thing as a stranger to observe or to meet. It's then that you wish you had enlarged your universe when you had a chance.

For an interesting, downloadable interview with the author see All in the Mind.