Coping with death

[Cinjin]

No easy answers to that one, but I can tell you this: just because you don't believe in a creator of the universe doesn't mean you have to rule out an afterlife. No one can ever truly know.

As for belief in an afterlife, that's still something I want to believe in it, but I can't. The reason I don't believe in any Gods is simply that I have no evidence that any God exists. The problem is, the same logic applies to the after life: I see no evidence that it exists. While it would be nice to take comfort in, I can't convince myself of something I know in my mind is a lie.

I certainly don't go around telling people that there's an afterlife. Who the hell am I and how would I know? I don't, nor does it weigh on my mind. Like Chuck, I have no wish to live forever ... yuck!
However, I will say this about your statement that "there is no evidence of an afterlife." While it is true there is no evidence of god, there is is actually at least some evidence of a possible afterlife. There are many documented cases of events so strange and so utterly bewildering that even hard core skeptics do not have an answer of known scientific explanation. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that an afterlife is a for sure or that I know anything about it. I don't. I simply cannot rule it out. There is at least more evidence for that than there is for some silly god, and who am I to say that science won't one day explain how a consciousness reincarnates itself into a new form of existence. At any rate, my condolences for your loss. I was only sharing my own personal views and like everyone else on the planet, I have no hard evidence for any kind of afterlife.