Most, if not all of us, hold our RIGHT OF CHOICE as a very precious possession, and are aware that in much of today's world,
people have very little, if any choice, especially about their future. Even for us, in what we call 'the free world', it
would seem in many ways we are free to do mostly what we’re told.
But, in fairness, it must be said that in Australia we do have a RIGHT OF CHOICE in most things. As individuals, we can choose,
within the limits of our finances, where we live, what kind of car we drive, where we go on our holidays, and so on. We can also,
to some degree at least, control our future, and plan for our retirement. We can control our health costs with insurance, and guard
against some of the after effects of accidents in the same way. We can even prepare for death by making out our will, and can expect
it to be upheld by the law of the land.
We exercise our RIGHT OF CHOICE in most, if not all of these things, yet for the vast majority, when it comes to the question of what
happens to us after death, we refuse to make a choice.
You may say to me, "But I have made a choice. I choose to believe there is nothing after death and I'm happy to just get on with my
life." But I say to you, unless you look closely at the alternatives, you have in fact made no choice at all, but have become part of
the 'Ostrich Syndrome', with your head buried in the sand.
For more on this see 'The Right of Choice'