I don't think it matters who you are, you can't truthfully say that you know for sure what happens at the point at which your life expires. That's what "faith" is all about. People don't want to believe that they simply disappear when they die. So, they make up deities and attribute something called "faith" to those deities. Deities provide an out for our inability to accept "ashes to ashes and dust to dust." Faith might be something that we've manufactured to deal with our impending mortality.

The funny thing about the life after death question is that we can't possibly ever know. If, when you pass away, you simply cease to exist, you will have no idea that you don't exist anymore, or that you even existed in the first place. Or, let's say that you do continue to exist after you pass away, how do you really know that you're continuing to exist?

Hmm. Well, let's see. You pass away and go to heaven. That's cool. You hang out for an eternity. What is eternity, exactly? Have you ever stared at the clock waiting to leave work, or for a bell to ring for the next class? Seems like an eternity, doesn't it? Time is not relevant. We have proven theories that tell us that. It's a measurement that we have manufactured to explain our existence, our place in space, from one moment to the next. One second can be a million billion years or a million billion years can be one second.

So, you're sitting up there, on a cloud for an eternity, playin' your harp. How do you know that you're truly living a life after death, or just living an eternity in the second of the last breath you'll ever take? The answer is quite simple - you won't know and you can never know. No one will ever know. Sure, lots of people will think they know, but no one will ever know.

I sometimes wonder if more people questioned the logic of our existence, removing all the outs given to us by our religions, if suddenly life would become such a precious resource that wasting it would enter no one's mind.