system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why is it people often ask, "where will I go when I die," but rarely ask, "where was I before I was born"? Is it not the same question?
gpt
Why would you?  There's not much (at least among western spiritual traditions) to support the idea that there ever was a you before whatever deity of your choice built your immaterial parts and put you in a body.  People want to know what comes after because by that point we have an identity that we've come to care about.  Another possibility is that the asker is worried about what will happen to them after they die, but the very fact that they are here in the first place is evidence that whatever may or may not have happened to them before they were born apparently turned out okay.

We don't ask about before because it has already happened, and seemingly worked out in our favor.  That part's done, and any associated danger is long passed by the time we are cognizant enough to wonder about it.