Jack learns about death at three years old, standing beside his grandfather's coffin. For the rest of his life, nightmares haunt him … visions of being embalmed or buried alive, and even worse, of being non-existent - invade his waking and sleeping hours, bringing him no peace.
He dies an atheist at age forty-seven and discovers, firsthand, that there is life after death. He finds himself alone in a frightening pit superintended by a demon who idly talks about the meaning of life, death and afterward. Jack hears answers to the questions every human asks but never understands. He learns that when his time in the pit is over, a worse fate awaits him.
What really happens after we die? Jack finds out the hard way that the scientists, philosophers, and religious scholars he listened to all his life had it wrong.
