Argumentative Essay On Afterlife

The afterlife is something that has been and likely will be argued over until such time as a deity of some kind presents themselves and sets the record straight. Until then, we get to deal with religious tension and violence that is ultimately pointless but might make some people feel better about their own fruitless existences. Speaking of existence, part of what makes the afterlife such a touchy subject is that people want to believe that there is a point to initial life. If life is some kind of hardship that must be endured before going on to a better place, then isn’t it all worth it? Fear of death, a great big “THE END” with no sequel is terrifying. What we seek to make clear here is not that any particular afterlife is the truth, but
There, I said it. While atheism is not quite the term for not believing in an afterlife, it quite often holds true. Despite that, roughly 1/3 of atheists believe in an afterlife. The proper term is likely just the belief in ETERNAL OBLIVION. Greek philosopher Epicurus once wrote “Foolish, therefore, is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will pain when it comes, but because it pains in the prospect… Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.” The lack of an afterlife is therefore tied to the belief that the mind, consciousness, soul, whichever you may choose to prioritize, ceases to be entirely upon death. Some people will picture themselves drifting eternally in an inky void of black liquid sorrow, trapped forever, but this is flawed. Truly ETERNAL OBLIVION would have no such awareness of drifting, no visual of darkness, no anything. You simply cease, in every sense. There is no consciousness present to observe the nothingness. Unlike most takes on the afterlife, it can be argued there is some degree of scientific proof for this theory. The fact that consciousness, as a mental status, is reliant upon the brain, as evidenced by damage to the brain causing states lacking conscious thought, seeks to imply that the brain is imperative to continued existence. However, all brain function ceases upon one’s death, which would seem to quite quickly shoot down any thoughts of a continued existence. Additional proof comes from the simple lack of proof to the contrary. No religious group has ever found concentric proof that their take on an afterlife is in any way conclusive, that that is definitively what comes after. There is no way to find such proof. Otherwise, religious conflict would be either much less or much more pronounced