If one is so confused as to believe that heaven (or hell) is something that comes when you die, or represents ‘an afterlife’ the only likely result is simply further and more extreme confusion.

Similarly, if one confuses sand with water and attempts to drink it the result is not the quenching of thirst.

These are not the outcome of some end-of-life accounting game, and they never were. They have nothing to do with accounting.

Heaven is something one’s mind, spirit and soul become together. Like singing or crying. If you’re not doing it here, now, the challenges of death are not likely to elicit it.

We are here to become heaven. Failing this, we will tend to create hell. Even children understand such matters. They are about now, not later.