Life after death?

[Mudhammam]

One thing I've never understood about the afterlife: Since humans are no more special than any other creature that has ever existed (well, our intelligence is pretty special but I mean ontologically speaking), than any future life would presumably include all creatures that have also already died. So then, in the hereafter there would be all the obnoxious, dangerous pests around us that exist now, and if you think about it long enough--what it would take to sustain such an environment where each creature continues on as it did before--the hereafter starts to look like a lot like earth. Maybe it's not something we should hold out hope for.