What happens after death?

[BAndrew]

In my opinion when you die then it's over. Nothing happens. You just cease to exist; you don't think or perceive anything and you don't really realise that you are dead.

Also, without saying I wouldn't like it, why should there be such a thing as afterlife? Is there any reason at all? Or is it just a human created concept to give hope? Does it matter whether we live or not? I am not suggesting that we are insignificant (I believe quite the opposite), but nature has it's laws. As the current laws of physics suggest, everything has the same fate which is determined by the passage of time. The whole universe will eventually die. But that doesn't make us insignificant because we are the consciousness of the cosmos, so we are the means by which the universe understands itself.

Although the fate of the universe (and as a result everything within it) is unavoidable, we can have hope. Strange things happen on the quantum world and we still have much to learn about the cosmos and the laws that drive the universe. For example electrons (just as photons) behave sometimes as waves and sometimes as particles without a reason. We have no "logical" explanation for the above fact. One could go as far as to say that even electrons have at some point intelligence and they can think and perceive a very different world invisible to us.

In conclusion, although I don't believe that there is afterlife, nothing is certain. New physics could be discovered at anytime and our current understanding of the universe might turn out to be very far from the reality. Only time (whatever that may be) will tell. It's only by continuing our explanation of the cosmos and the laws of nature that govern it, that we can truly understand ourselves and find answers to the most enduring questions one could ever ask.