Atheist Think Life is Over When You Die?

I'm an atheist, in a way. I subscribe to science and logic rather than theism and superstition, but I hear many people who are self described atheists say life is over when you die, and this is the last ultimatum. This is completely counter intuitive on a philosophical level, though, even when considering this through the lens of science.

If science is correct, we are composed of atoms, light, and energy. This is the the same for everything else in the universe. Taking this into consideration, this means that we are a piece of the universe, just as much as a wave is part of the ocean, or a branch is part of a tree. We are not independent of the universe, and this is a clear fact. Like all matter, we change, as can be seen daily with the trillions of lifeforms that die.

Energy does not die , and even if it does, existence will continue on in whatever form it may take. We are only part of this universe, this moving changing basket of energy, so to say when we die that everything ends is foolishness. This is the same as saying that when you die, the universe dies too. When a branch breaks off the tree, does the tree die? No, new branches grow, new trees will grow beside it, and the cycle will continue. Like a wave in the ocean, the cycle of beginning and ending, life and death, new and old, life goes on, the universe goes on. To say that it is over when we die, that we cease to exist and that is all, and all there ever will be, is like saying our small insignificant lives, these snapshots of the existence that we call life, are independent of the universe.

It isn't over when we die. This is almost narcissistic to think so, and suggestive of our primitive, cave man outlook on our state of being. An answer so simple and obvious, that none of us can see because of our small, animal minds. Look up at the sky on a clear night and see the immensity of existence. This is where we go. This is where we end up. It "reincarnation", but with out the idea of a soul. It is beyond us to conduct further insight into the details of this truth, just like it is beyond an ant to know the details of its greater surroundings, or the killer whale to know whats beyond its waters, just as the human will not know what's beyond its earth. We are ants, and when one dies, another comes in its place. Only, we may wake up in some alternate universe, unable to know the details of what occurred during all of existences past creations, limited by the senses the universe gave us to understand. The possibilities are endless of what we will experience in our next conscious existence. The universe is beyond our scope of understanding because it is so big.

There is no end, there is only change. It is easy to see, only we look from the wrong angle, considering human life as independent of the environment it is made . You are not you, in the general sense of the term, you are a collection of parts and part of this universe. To think that death is the ultimate end is wrong. Life will go on, and so will you. Look up at the sky, this is where we go, and it will go on, as everything will. What is this all powerful creator? It is right in front of our eyes, it is the universe, existence, and we are a part of it.

If it is limitless and it doesn't end, than the possibilities are infinity. We could have lived this life trillions of times already. We, the universe, could have been trillions of things before we lived this life, and we are only experiencing a snapshot of it. It should give you goosebumps when you truly realize this, it should bring you tears of joy. Such a beautiful expression, existence. Such a wondrous blasting tirade of occurrence, whether living, or non conscious, the sheer fact that it even exists at all is amazing. Just imagine if there was nothing, nothing at all, nothing ever, and there never was and never will be, wouldn't that be just, unbelievably dastardly, cruel, wrong, terrifying. It would be impossible; just nothing, ever again, life, stars, planets, anti matter, particles, galaxies, and whatever is beyond that we cannot see, just nothing. It isn't possible. It would mean there isn't just death, there never was death, there is just nothing, not even nothing because for nothing to exist there must be something for there to be a consideration of a nothing. It makes you want to cry to even consider such a thing.

No, it doesn't end my friends. Death is not the end. It is almost silly to think such a thing