For him the astral world is a place of weariness; the only thing for which he craves are no longer possible for him, for in the astral world there is no business to be done, and, though he may have as much companionship as he wishes, society is now for him a very different matter, because all the pretences upon which it is usually based in this world are no longer possible.
These cases, however, are only the few, and for most people the state after death is much happier than life upon earth.

The first feeling of which the dead man is usually conscious is one of the most wonderful and delightful freedom.

He has absolutely nothing to worry about, and no duties rest upon him, except those which he chooses to impose upon himself.

For all but a very small minority, physical life is spent in doing what the man would much rather not do; but he has to do it in order to support himself or his wife and family.

In the astral world no support is necessary; food is no longer needed, shelter is not required, since he is entirely unaffected by heat or cold; and each man by the mere exercise of his thought clothes himself as he wishes.