Acknowledgement: there are some materials and ideas from Life, Death and Immortality by L.Balashov (Moscow, 1996, Russian) - used in this article.

In our simplified approach we divided people into two hypothetical groups: the one which believes in the immortality of soul and life after death (Spirituals) and another which stands on the position that there is nothing after physical death, that our life is one and final (Pragmatics).

Spirituals do believe that there will be another life after death (paradise, reincarnation, etc.). For them in general this life is not so important in the sense of hedonical consumption and searching for pleasures. They do believe that the more modest and kindly you live your life here the better will be you life there. In our extreme case this brings to the constant self-restrictions and sufferings for the higher goals. In result we have perception of zero value of one's life. The life is lived not for the person, but for someone (something) else.

On the other hand Pragmatics don't believe in afterlife, which force them to consume wildly, trying to receive maximum pleasure and satisfaction during their life. The value of life for them is extremely high and they will be fighting fiercely for every minute of it. With the high value of their life the value of life of other people is not very high unless Pragmatics are dependent in this or that manner from someone. This people are living for the moment and deep in luxuries and overspendings.

Though the cases are extreme it's rather easy to find real examples, which though wouldn't represent the total picture. There is not difficult to answer the question what the real life looks like - it's in the middle.

But probably there are some problems with the middle position. Because the world in which we are living now is not balanced - this is the world of war and insincerity, dirty money and slavery, excessive luxuries and extreme poverty. And what a lot of people are living in the spiritual and psychic disbalance.

It's a centuries long tradition that people are doing wrong, cruel and menace things as a normal pace of life and only time after time starting think about some spiritual or religious things. And in a lot of cases this repentance is not really sincere - it's just the show off or tribute to the traditions of family or community.

Is it possible to change the situation? What is the remedy? Unfortunately, the only way to change the world is to change every individual (or at least majority). But this can not be done through thrusting of some dogmas, rules or laws. The only effective mean is the one which is developed by the person. We only can give instruments and possible directions of the way of thinking. But what we really need is to make people thinking and the sooner is the better.