When I was 10 or so, I read an Issac Asimov short story that really freaked me out. It's told from the first person perspective, and is about an atheist scientist who dies. After he dies, he notices himself floating away from his body into a white light (all the tropes of heaven), and thinks about the irony that he's going to "heaven." When he gets there, he only meets one entity. He "isn't aware that he has vocal cords" (first part that freaked me out!), but tries to speak to the entity anyways. Turns out the entity created the Universe (is God). God is trying to find a way to kill himself, to release himself from the monotony of existence, and thus saves the smartest individuals in the universe so that they may (over the course of eternity) think of a way that he might successfully kill himself. Everyone else simply rots when they die. If one of his captives finds a way to destroy [I]themselves[/I], he'll simply reconstruct them. The notion of being trapped like that for eternity without a body scared me a lot at the time, and got me thinking about a lot of things. You? (also, if anyone can find the name of that story, I'd appreciate it)