Joy Behar says she doesn’t believe in the afterlife: ‘I don’t want another life, it’s fine….Read More

It’s like before you were born, did you know anything? No. It’s the same thing after you die. I believe that.”

Whatever happens to us after we all shuffle off this mortal coil is not Joy Behar’s problem.

The 82-year-old, who has publicly admitted to having sex with ghosts, revealed on Thursday’s episode of The View’s Behind the Table podcast that she is a firm believer that there’s nothing waiting for us when we all die — no pearly gates, no second life, no ravenous hellfire, nada.

“The other day I was reading and Angelina Jolie said she’s not afraid to die,” Behar said, referring to Jolie’s recent visit to The Tonight Show where she revealed that her back-up career was to become a funeral director because of her comfortability with death. “She’s fine about it. Good for her.”

The View’s executive producer Brian Teta then acknowledged that it can be easy for others to accept the idea of death if they “have a belief system where there’s something better coming,” to which Behar replied, “Why? That, to me, is the worst. Better that there’s nothing coming.”

A surprised Teta asked, “You’d prefer nothingness to a utopian afterlife?”

Yes, she would. “Nothing. It’s like, no, I don’t want another life. It’s fine,” Behar said, before detailing how she believes the afterlife works. “It’s like before you were born, did you know anything? No. It’s the same thing after you die. I believe that.”

Teta noted that her take on the Great Beyond didn’t exactly sound “scary,” but that it might be “impossible to grasp” for some people.

“It’s not scary,” she agreed. “It’s very hard to grasp, but making up stories like there’s a purgatory, there’s a limbo, there’s a hell, there’s a heaven — all these different places to go, it’s more complicated than finding the right town in the Hamptons to live in. It’s better to think nothing.

In the end, Behar found herself agreeing with Jolie’s viewpoint. “In a way, I do. I’m not afraid to be dead — what you really dread in this world is having a long, protracted illness. That you don’t want to do,” she said. “You don’t want to suffer, but to be actually dead? No one’s ever come back — this is all I have to say…”

Teta then pointed out that there is one person who, “depending on what you believe,” has come back: Jesus. “Besides him, name another one,” Behar declared, causing a laughing Teta to reply, “That’s it so far.”

Despite not believing in the idea of the afterlife, Behar has still gone on to have her own supernatural experiences over the years. She famously admitted on The View that she’d “had sex with a few ghosts and never got pregnant” back in 2022, and, earlier this year, expressed her desire to hold a seance in order to ask her dead friends for life advice.

Listen to Behar discuss life after death in the podcast above.