If there is an afterlife, I wonder what John, George, Brian and Stu are all doing right now. I, too, am very skeptical about all this. Would they still be celebrities or just ordinary people?
John Lennon's death was the saddest event of the 20th Century for me. All I had was the hard business of growing up and becoming less and less idealistic after that. Sure, there've been personal tragedies in my life but Lennon represented something transcendent to me, a hope for a higher meaning. And then, he was killed, easily and with the utmost dispatch, by an immature everyday no-man. Lennon, a man/God, destroyed in an instant senselessly and as vulnerably as a barenaked infant in a forest full of ravenous wolves.
RIP, John. If there is an afterlife, I truly hope it is a place of rest and peace.