Even atheists should believe that death isn't over?

Question

Death isn't death. I'm just a philosophical agnostic trying to figure out my place in life and the purpose. I feel like we're are fighting all on the same level. Right now "life" is just this level. Then after there's gonna be something idk if you'd call if a hell or heaven but something will come after. Sleep is the cousin of "death." If we sleep it's like death but we will always wake up to a new day. That's what I feel about this so called word "death" that we use. After we "die" we will wake up to something again, just like sleep. What's your take on it?

Answer 1

Death isn't the cousin of sleep. Sleep is a brain cycle you go through to rest and re-sort your memory. Death is the decomposition of the cells on your body. You don't wake up from it

Answer 2

I think you're indulging in self delusion.



Consciousness doesn't happen without a working brain, and when we die there is no possible mechanism that can upload our memories to some celestial cloud server - and even if there was, it doesn't mean that the "you" that lives in the cloud is the same "you" that inhabited your body.



Consider the "Star Trek Transporter Paradox" and see how this applies to the concept of life after death:

http://skepticalavenger.tumblr.com/post/18449365739/the-star-trek-transporter-paradox

Answer 3

The only real answer to the question of what happens after death is, no one knows. No one has died and come back to life to tell us what happens after death. So everyone is free to believe what they would like to believe. It may but be right but it gives us peace of mind and there is no point worrying about something inevitable.