Independent Research B

Approaching this project I wasn't sure what to do as I am an agnostic believer. I could never pigeon hole my beliefs to just one set religion, but have respect for people who do as I think it is a comforting thing to feel as though we understand the vast universe we are in a little bit more.

I decided to consult the atheists view on afterlife, as on first thought I would be sure that atheists would be the group of people who believed that when you are dead, you are dead. There is no romantic floating up to heaven, or you body being dead but your soul being eternal, but i was wrong.

'The Atheist Afterlife" describes an afterlife that is consistent with known law and requires nothing more than physics. It demonstrates that an afterlife is possible based on reason, and supports the probability of an afterlife with an original and testable support for dualism – the proposition that our mind and body are separate. The Atheist view on afterlife is very much from a philosophical viewpoint. It makes the concept of God irrelevant and removes the ‘God of the Gaps’ completely. It attempts to prove that many religious conceptions of an afterlife are false, including the concepts of judgement, selectivity based on belief, and the existence of Heaven and Hell.

Atheists believe that when you pass, you, in 'words' will cease to exist. The concept of nonexistence can be compared to the lack of existence of a human before being conceived or brought into the world - The universe was here before you were born and will continue when you are gone.

Whatever personal belief you hold will dictate what you think will happen to yourself or others - but what we do know to be fact is that we do not know what happens after death. We may think we know (in the form of theories, practices, beliefs, etc) but we do not really know, since you are alive, and whatever you believe will happen, might only happen after your death.