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I wonder...

posted 9 years ago by Coryraisa
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I've seen this film several times and love it. It's so creative and depicts a fairly realistic edition of the afterlife. I often wonder what people like JFK, Princess Diana, Princess Grace, Martin Luther King, and other people who were famous and died prematurely would have been like at Judgement City.....?

I suspect Diana might have been tearfully worrying about her sons and the rest of her family back on Earth until maybe the afterlife personnel reassured her that her siblings were looking after her sons...she would have also worried about Dodi, Henri, and the others until she and Dodi re-met at a place like that comedy club in a similar way that Daniel met Julia.

I suspect Diana was probably gay in several past lives as she discovers at the Past Lives Pavilion, but is not too surprised, especially given how feminine she had been in this life we saw here on Earth.

Probably JFK would have had fun at the golf course and horse arena. I had a funny thought that maybe Michael Jackson arrived in the afterlife bitter and mad and complaining the whole time.

I laugh maybe when somebody like Rip Torn's character tells Micheal about humans using only three percent of their brains, Michael would explode and howl Aaaaaay! I was a GENIUS back on Earth! I was the King of Pop! I know I used MOST of my brain creating my music and creating this dam concert that was RUINED...I'd like to know who killed me.....!

And the Rip Torn guy would laugh in amusement as he is used to dealing with human tantrums.

Does anyone else think about those possibilities......? What their trials would have been like...........? And I wonder which ones would have had their souls sent back to Earth and which would have gone onto Heaven?

[–] Coryraisa 9 years ago

I imagine Diana's 'trial' would have lasted maybe three days, but looked at twenty days and naturally she would have gone on to Heaven.

Maybe Michael's 'trial' would have last twenty days and they would have looked at ten days...and Michael would sigh and moan about having "enough trials" in his life...and would have to come back to Earth...the cross-examiner would have LOTS of fun with Michael.

Martin Luther King...maybe three days like Diana's and eighteen days, then onward to Heaven like Diana.

Maybe Christa McAuliffe, the teacher who died on the space shuttle along with seven other astronauts in 1986...maybe she would have been five days with twenty days of her life looked at.

It's interesting to speculate on famous people and what their 'trials' would have been like...anyone wonder which of their days in their lives would have been examined.......?