re: Eternal rest...
To quote:
The afterlife, as in life, requires you make constant decisions and chart a course. Sure there's time to smell flowers, but a life of merely smelling flowers wouldn't be much of a life now would it?
"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!"
- Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle
http://thoreau.eserver.org/lifewout.html