Life after death?

[Ksa]

No we don't. You might do, but I certainly don't.

Don't put words into other people's mouths. You'll just end up making erroneous assumptions.

I have no good reason to think I'll live on after I die, because I've died. There is nothing physical, chemical or biological left to support my consciousness. I am nothing more than 'an arrangement'. I have for all intents and purposes, ceased to exist.

Transmigration of the soul (aka karmatic reincarnation) is also a silly belief, because its self-refuting. It hasn't defined a "ground state" or default form. So if a person is continually bad after being reborn and reborn, they'll keep re-emerging in lesser forms, until eventually degrading away to nothing. >.>

I hope you know that I am playing with words and being metaphorical.

There is no such thin as "Karmatic Reincarnation" it is called Samsara. Also within Samsara nobody degrades away into nothing. Also I never said there is something chemical to support your consciousness after you die, I said the exact opposite. Your consciousness will cease being and ironically many Hindus believe this is what happens during death eventually. They think this is a reward like heaven.

I am an atheist...it's funny seeing though, that many atheists reject the life after death assumption because religious people believe in it. Don't think of your life as an entity, think of it as a process. Whatever gave you life was a process, your existence is a process as well, a chemical balance. The Universe is also a process.

I reject the concept of death in a similar way in which I reject the concept of nothing. If you go to any point in space, you find out that the space is never truly empty, and it has quantum fluctuations. "Nothing" is similar to "Death" in the way that it is a human invention. It's not out there...it doesn't exist.

There is always something and there is always a place where you can be. The place where you were born is just an example. I don't think that you can be anything other than alive...simply because the verb "to be" requires you to...be.