You would be asked whether after death you wish to be awakened to life. If you truly loved someone, you would agree to come back to life only under condition that you’d be reunited with your beloved. Life‘s value is conditional and justified only by the fact that it enables you to live your love. The one you love means more to you than God‘s creation, more than life itself. This is, of course, a derisive blasphemy toward the Creator’s computer, which considers itself the apex of all things and the source of all meaning. But the majority of mankind has never known love, and of those people who believe they have known it, only a few would successfully pass the test conceived by Agnes; they would grasp at the promise of renewed life without asking for any condition; they would give preference to life over love and voluntarily fall back into the Creator’s web.

 

Immortality, Milan Kundera