Life and "death"

[Donal]

Do you think there has to be a meaning to life? Life would make no sense if you die, and your just.......dead for ever.

People passing away, like a mother loses her daughter she would never get over her, and the same goes for a father and son. It would just not fit in properly if oblivion only waited for you.

IMO there has to in the end be some kind of afterlife, EVERY human has a love for someone else (that goes way beyond reproduction of genes) and EVERY human wants to survive death, you can NEVER deny that. If we were not meant to survive death I don't think nature would have made us want to so much, make us conscious beings, and want to disappoint us in the end. Even the most hardcore "I don't believe in an afterlife" alive wants to survive death. So much emotion in the world towards it. Everyone wants to have an afterlife, because we all have a longing towards it. The people who think oblivion just don't have everything sorted out, and think we must be gone forever due to thinking we are purely biological survival animals, even though they want an afterlife.

Before humans thought the Sun was God, thought the earth was flat and centre of the universe, that there was a rain God, thunder God, the list goes on. I don't think humans are robobts, there is no limit on what life holds, and I think in millions of years to come people will hold the way we interpret consciousness, the brain, our view of the universe (including us being only biological survival humans) now in the same manner as the people who believed in water Gods, and the like.

What does everyone think?

[Froglet]

I think that there are 2 ways we see now.  Easily, either Life after death or No continuation of "Life" after death.  Well, if we take the first one.  there are many different ways people think we will continue and we will find out when we get there if this is true.  But take the second way, perhaps there isn't continuation of life after death.  However, if this is true would we really know?  because once you had died that would be the end of conciousness and so you wouldn't know that you had ceased to exist or that you even existed at all.  Or there could of course be something like a mix of the two where you die and continue but you cease to be you.  and continue on changing.  Or there could be other ways that consciouness continues or doesn't continue.  Either way is it really so important?  Why not just be content with now.  We will have the answer to this question when it is right.  But I'm just stating what people think and don't say.  I have to add that I think altered levels of consciouness is enjoyable and in my mind points to some variation of a continuation.  

Froglet