Thinking about the possibility of this sort of stuff makes me look at death in a different way.,(reply>), Luke  you are on the correct path with everything you stated, I read above.  This would also explain the phenomenon of what we know (or hear from others) as the afterlife (heaven/hell).,(reply>), Luke what would be the point of a survey?,(reply>), @Luke what if you made the simulation and just deleted your memories temporarily? eh, best-case scenario here.,(reply>), @0Turbox We don't know that morality is "man" made, in that humans are the only species in the universe to develop a concept of other beings having rights. My pondering is more about whether these rights would be extended to digital beings, as an advanced civilization may conclude that conscious beings are information systems regardless of substrate, and thus deserve the same rights as organic ones. If it's an ancestor sim made for the purpose of understanding their own origins, they would have no choice but to not eliminate suffering from the equation, but perhaps the creator(s) with this advanced moral code would justify providing an afterlife for conscious digital beings as a consolation.<br><br><br>Or maybe they just have us take a survey after we're dead.,(reply>), @Luke Morality, isn't that a man made thing? Out of fear, bad things could happen to them self's. It's hard to believe, that a creator, who builds animals who eats/swallows others alive, had something, we call morality, in mind.