[Peer]

Hi Stephen, thank you for your very kind words.

If we read our Shakespeare well we would all know the answer because he wrote it down very clearly:

To be or not to be, that is the question.

We can only be.

Not just a little or half.
One cannot be a little pregnant or halfdead.
You are or you are not.
Enlightenment is only a state of being as is God and you are right:
We have free will.

When I am not, neither is God, neither is there disaster, one or more heavens or a universe.
No use posing the question: If I do not exist would there still be a God?

I am or nothing is.

I think that answers the question "to be or not to be."