Atheists, many of you say that there is no life after death. What's your backup plan if that is not true?

I'd probably say something like, 'Well i'll be F#@!$d', followed by, 'Far out, you must sell a lot of Red Bull up here, ie, look at all the wings'!

Plan? No plan, i'd just go with the flow, whatever happens happens, if i'm wrong i'm wrong. It's not like i'll be able to go back to the day i was born and start again, being all religious etc, i wouldn't think?! :p

But seriously and realistically, i still don't think i'm ever going to see any heaven or hell.

It'll be lights out, and that's it! :p

I'd accept that I was wrong, and accept my fate, whatever it may be, whether Hell, Limbo, forgiveness....

....but I am that certain that there is no life after death, that I will never change my opinion, no matter how many times Pascal's wager is quoted at me.

? is right. I don't have a backup plan. That doesn't mean I'm afraid of death, or that I am going to hedge my bets.

Instead, I am just going to live as any other creature on this earth lives, and not be bothered about what happens after I die.

I'm 100000000% sure that God an the afterlife don't exist.

However if it does (not likely) christianity has one major loop hole. Anyone can be forgiven. If by some absurd chance they find out go and the afterlife is real all i have to do is live the rest of my life as an atheist and then on my death bed, prey, say im sorry and then i will go to heaven. Simples.

Did you ever know you were going to be born, and did you have a plan on what you were going to do in this life at birth? It's impossible to form an intelligible strategy on how to plan for something as vague as an "afterlife." The best you can do is constantly assess your situation and prepare for risks based on how likely they seem.

A life after this one seems super unlikely since it stems from the idea that our identities are immutable and embedded in some soul, a principle being made more and more irrelevant by neuroscience.

~DaisukinaKyoku

There are dozens of religious ideas about what happens after death. There are at least 2 within Christianity itself.

I am going to assume that you are coming from a Christian viewpoint. Simply because I rarely if ever have been asked this question by anyone but a Christian.

If I am wrong, and there is a god (for arguments sake the Christian god idea), then I will be content with the choice I made. I wouldn't follow the biblical idea of god even if it was proven real.

Since I have no reliable way of predicting what a real afterlife would be like, it's kinda impossible to plan for. I'd have to analyze the situation and figure it out once I could actually observe it.

If I'm wrong I'm wrong. How can I plan for that? Should I pretend I believe just incase?

I have no reason to plan for it as I don't believe there is one.

There is no life after death.

But it is true.... the Christian God attributes are completely impossible and self contradictory

Christians what is your backup plan if Islam is true??!!!!

Immense joy and gratitude - no brainer of a question.