• Optional: Newsprint, markers and tape

• Optional: Write the challenge question on newsprint, and post.
• Optional: Browse the Internet and see what you find to share.
• Optional: In Alan Lightman's novel, Einstein's Dreams (New York: Warner Books, 1994), read an illuminating, short description of life without death. See the chapter, "9 June 1905."

Challenge questions guide a deeper inquiry for especially thoughtful individuals and groups. For this session, ask:

What would life be like if it did not end in death?

Share relevant ideas you have found. You might also ask:

• Would life be better or worse without death? Why?
• Would people ever finish anything if they had forever to do it?