anthropology

So I have officially started school and I am really liking it. On a scale of 1-10, I'd rate school an 8.5. (Math and the bus are the reasons for the deductions) I wanted to talk about anthropology though a bit; I'll discuss math and the bus and all the other joys of college later.
My Professor, Dr. Hanson raised an interesting point. "We, as humans, don't really care about where we were before we were born. We don't care where we were in 1850. We do care, Christians at least, where we go after we die. Why is this?" I am still mulling this over, but I think this is really interesting and not something I had ever thought of before. Anyone with any thoughts on this is welcome to comment.