Question about permanent death

[AFTT47]

Are there atheists here who believe that there is some sort of afterlife? I personally still believe that there is something in afterlife, even if I dislike the idea.

There's no concrete evidence of any sort of afterlife.

Indeed, there is not. That being the case, I default to believe my conscious existence will end with the death of my body.

I'm far from sure of that though.

I don't have the slightest doubt that man-made religions like the ludicrous Abrahamic faiths are fantasy but I can think of many other possibilities I cannot dismiss so easily:

1. We may be living in a simulation. We may all be characters in a cosmic video game. I used to look at the existence of the fucking idiotic leaf blower as evidence of that but now I have even better evidence: Donald Trump is the President of the United States. The game master got bored and decided to really shake things up.

2. The age and expanse of the universe virtually guarantee the existence of beings so advanced beyond us, we could not distinguish them from God. Their only limitations would be those imposed by the laws of physics. If they were so inclined and the laws of physics allowed them to do so, they could intervene on the death of each of us and provide us with an afterlife.

3. Thought may be a primal force in the universe. I never would have considered this before joining this forum (and I'm still very skeptical of it) but some members here (bennyboy? comes to mind) have forced me to consider it.

There is a saying generally credited to the British geneticist and evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane: The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.