Atheism and the meaning of life - what drives you?

[Spongebob]

But not to anyone who ends up in hell.  If heaven is only available to believers, when you add up the pleasure and pain of all the individuals involved the afterlife will be several orders of magnitude worse.

I also saw that in another post you claim that neither heaven nor hell will last forever.  If that were so, why even bother?  Why not just leave the dead in their silent, painless graves rather than reviving them for a temporary redo?

When you finish reading a book, do you then say, "Well I'm going to die someday, might as well not even start a new book.".......No.

Your response is makes no sense in regard to Astreja's post.  She asked what was the point in making all the effort to reach a heaven that is not permanent.  It's similar to asking if a career in engineering will only last a month, why would I bother to go to college and work hard for four years to get a degree for that?  The point of reading a book is to enjoy the book, not to prepare for something afterward.