Is there an afterlife? Religious people always think so, and how you are treated in the afterlife is based on how well you behaved while alive, so for them there is even a kind of morality involved in death — good people are rewarded, while bad people pay a dear price — for an eternity no less. Fine.
I know we can’t peek beyond the grave, but let’s just think about what is undeniable about death. For one thing, you won’t have the 5 senses you have now to interface with whatever the reality is after death. You won’t be able to see anything because you won’t have eyes; you won’t be able to smell anything because you won’t have a nose — in fact, all 5 senses are not going to be available to you. Another thing that is certainly missing is the brain. You won’t be able to think any thoughts because you won’t have a brain anymore to think them.
So exactly how is such an afterlife existence supposed to work with the 5 senses and your brain missing? Just try to imagine that — that’s not so simple. When I do, I come up with zero, that is, I can’t imagine any kind of existence without the 5 senses or a brain. You might say something like it’s like you are lying in bed in the middle of the night, and you close your eyes and see pitch blackness. But that isn’t believable either because without eyes, you wouldn’t see blackness — you wouldn’t see, period.
Frankly, an afterlife is ridiculous from the get go because it is simply not practical. And that you would be rewarded or punished in the afterlife based on your behavior while alive — please!
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