If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?

[Huggy Bear]

So we can be completely unconscious when we're heavily sedated, but the idea that we're not conscious when we're dead is mere speculation?

yes.

And I've been both heavily sedated (sufficient to have my chest sawed open without me noticing) and asleep, so I'm in a position to know that sleep is far from the same thing. Neither is clinical death, for that matter.

as far as closing your eyes and experiencing 'nothingness', sleep and "sedation" are not far from the same thing.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sedation

sedation
NOUN

1[MASS NOUN] The action of administering a sedative drug to produce a state of calm or sleep.

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Speculation works both ways buddy.

Mine is based on scientific knowledge, yours on fiction.

Point me to this scientific knowledge that explains what happens after death.