I've got a really pessimistic and cartesian point of view about after life, i can't just buy it and maybe i got it all wrong.
But i get that some people have to believe in a superior power, guiding them through this mess we call life, facing horrible facts, this can really help.
To me, we are not specials entities, just an utterly complex error of chemistry in the first place, just like every other species on this planet, and i admire nature perfection actually.Every species has his own purpose, influencing environment to regulate life in a big picture, like vultures feeding on rotting corpses and ultimately avoiding diseases to spread out whitout being aware of it, one of the most perfect example.
We are the only ones staggered from this principle, and all our ecosystem is paying the price of it, and we will too ultimately.
The fact is that we don't deserve this privilege, not even close.
Regarding religions, well, the principle of religion was invented by extremely intelligent men at an archaic time, who understood the inherent fear that comes with self-awareness and death, and decided to exploit it through very well written stories.
Each sentence is carefully thought out and every word is weighed.It's a beautiful job, but it's done to manipulate the crowds. Today it's just a brake on human evolution.
Death is a part of the evolutionary process, if there was a god or a superior entity, we would be immortal and perfect, but we are just a rotting pile of flesh, nothing is endless, even the Universe will come to an end, science has already observed his decaying