Why waste your life, the only one you know for absolutely certain that you have, pining for some nebulous second life that might not even happen (and which conveniently is inaccessible until after you die)? Where's the harm in trying to make a heaven of this world?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
