What happens after death?

[emjay]

@OP. From an atheist point of view, the void/nothingness/oblivion... whatever you want to call it, is not a place to be... not like sitting in a dark room for eternity... because to be is to experience; which would therefore be an afterlife. It's the absence of experience, which is what makes it so hard to get our heads around; we are trying to imagine what it's like not to be able to imagine... which is impossible. The only way we can talk about what it's 'like' is from an outside, third-person perspective... ie like before you were born or like being asleep when not dreaming... but we cannot talk about what it's like from a first-person, experiencing, point of view because that is a contradiction in terms, because it's the absence of experience; so there is nothing that it is 'like' to not experience.. it's an impossible task to imagine that.

For some reason, this helped me a lot. Thank you.

You're welcome I hoped it would... because that seemed to be the sticking point for you; imagining oblivion to be a actual place to be/experience, which it couldn't be without being an afterlife.