merciful-death:

I don’t know.

Is there an afterlife?  I once thought near constantly of this subject.  Do those that I kill ascend to a heaven, or am I completely eradicating them from any semblance of existence?

Is there a hell, or perhaps might hell be on Earth?  If it were so, would that not make immortality a punishment?  It seemed fitting to me at one time, anyhow’ that feeling that my life might very well be hell, and some devil was at work prompting an endless cycle of death that I undoubtedly enjoyed, yet loathed that I did.

I became content, however, in the thought that there existed no higher beings, and everything that is simply “is.”  The appearances of Claudia’s apparition—if it was she that Jesse Reeves encountered in the first place—shook that belief that had given me a semblance of peace for years.  Yes, of course, if Claudia could appear as a spirit, that would mean there is, in fact, an “afterlife.”

Lestat claims to have seen God and the devil.  Perhaps he did.  Perhaps he was merely deranged.

I don’t know, and I suspect I never will.