Atheists, do you believe in an afterlife?

No.

We know for an absolute fact that our memories, knowledge, beliefs, personalities and emotions are the result of physical processes in our nervous systems. When your body dies all your knowledge and identity will be gone. This has been proven beyond doubt by neuroscience, by studies of people with brain injuries, mental illnesses, strokes and dementia and by the effects drugs and other chemicals have on our emotions and thought processes.

So when our brains die all these things are lost.

So what sort of afterlife would we have? One where we couldn't remember who we were, the people we loved (who also wouldn't remember us), the religions we did or didn't worship or even the language we spoke.

people who say that believing in an afterlife and being an atheist is impossible are idiots. All what atheist ability is a disbelief in a deity, something is as much as the guy. i don't have faith in an afterlife consistent with se, however the closet element i will declare is it is going to likely be like snoozing without waking up (in my opinion.) it relatively is stable so i will atone for my sleep that I lost for the time of the years.

Atheist means 'not theist', and theists are those who are certain (have faith) that at least one hypothetical deity, that they are imagining, is actually real. Since 'theist does not include anything about hypothetical afterlife in its definition, 'atheist' also does not include anything about that. So people who are atheist may or may not believe in the reality of some hypothetical afterlife. But that atheist hypothetical afterlife would not include any deity.

But I happen to be an atheist who holds no belief in the reality of any sort of hypothetical afterlife.

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Regards,

John Popelish

I guess most atheists are materialists, they think the spirit(consciousness) is the property of matter(body), not the other way around, and that would mean that death is the end. I personally don't fully accept that and think about the possibilty of afterlife.

When you are dead that is it

I had no consciousness before my life started and really for many months after, I will have no consciousness after I die. The bit in between is the bit I am bothered about and I see it as my duty to myself to enjoy it as much as I can. Now what's the problem with that?

some do, i don't. personally i think the idea of nothing after death sounds peaceful. atheism only covers belief in a god or gods, not any other religious beliefs. there are religious atheists (buddhists for example).

Not all atheists don't have subjective experiences that might lend credit to the concept higher dimensions. there may be much more. I wouldn't fall into any belief system that governs my thought. just accept all and interpret in my own terms

Who knows?

I just don't believe that we go to some magical place where we get wings and everything is perfect and a giant man who lives in the sky is there....

...OR that we go to some horrible, hot, fiery place where a guy with a pitchfork is there to torture us.

I've been where you are, this is part of the whole center of the universe mentality that people get when they're religious. You think to yourself that we're just too important to fade to darkness in the end, that it has to go on. I have news for you, the fact that it ends makes this existence far more important. I

some do soem dont

me, kinda, its all about the energy conversion

but either way there are really only 2 options that i can see

, we die and no longer exist consciously or we die and our conscious exists on in another way