How can an atheist believe we rot in the ground after death?

How can someone be on their deathbed believing sincerely that they'll just fade away;
To not be anymore, to not exist anymore - to just rot in the ground;
I don't believe in the church or the mosque, none of it feels right,
the bible was written by man after all!

I do however believe in true love, an afterlife, and god;
Science is usually what an atheist brings up;
Science, has proven that the word "god" is hard encoded into our dna
There's so much we can't explain
How can someone believe we just rot in the ground?
The teachings of man I do not trust, I don't know the truth, in death I may find out

Science works with the "see it to believe it" dogma; You present a hypothesis, and then run experiments to see whether or not it's viable. Write up a conclusion, but stay aware of the fact that ultimately- everything is inconclusive because there's so much left to discover- there may very well be something to disprove it.

We believe that we rot in the ground because we can bloody well see it. Kill someone and leave 'em in the woods. Come back later and you will see the body, rotting.

We also are fairly certain that the conscious mind- what makes up our identity- is housed within our brains.

And the brain rots as well.

Therefore, you die, and you rot. You cease to exist.

If you want a spiritual element- your decomposing corpse feeds new life- and as your cells dissipate throughout the earth, the sky, and the wild- you are effectively reincarnated within our shining blue planet itself.

Never actually put any thought about what happens when I die.
Nobody truly knows what happens when we die. But as an atheist myself, I believe after death I'll probably either fade into darkness or probably live inside my imagination or something. But since I'm not dying right now it shall all remain a mystery.

Why not.

As long as the people around me are happy because of me, i'm all good.
I don't expect any result because of my actions.

And you have to change the title, it's somewhat misleading.

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The way I understand it from doing some research about the subject of death, when you die it's pretty much the same as going to sleep: You feel tired, you have a strong urge to sleep off the tiredness, and want to close your eyes and fall unconscious, just as you would when you sleep.

Assuming you died a natural death, your body shuts down starting with internal organs and eventually your brain dies from the lack of oxygen. Obviously you aren't conscious, so you never feel it or are even aware of it. After that, Rigor mortis sets in and decomposition takes place.

We do rot in the ground or become ashes. Even if you believe in god or an afterlife.. doesn't negate the fact the shell rots and becomes one with the dirt for the flowers to bloom then eaten by the grass eater then the predators. Even though i believe in a after life.. is still find comfort with the fact that i will be food for others. My people use to just cremate or leave our dead in the woods. Duality of nature and god intertwined.

Asking this question is like asking a theoistic man how do they believe we go to a type of afterlife. Generally most agnostic or atheistic peoples believe in some sort of afterlife, it's just some that from what we know and what the CCC and pretty much any person who's evident of the world believe we cease to corporally exist AND become nothing
Whether or not you believe in an afterlife is besides the point, not you or anyone else can ask "Why don't you want to perceive hope?" as you can't change their epistemological outlook of spiritual being to something that contains flights of flight or rhizomatic transportation of being as a benefit of the end of their lives. What we should address is how you should readdress you question as to how athiests don't want to reach salvation or some poignant question like that as asking if you believe we decompose is not just silly, but ignorant.

Everybody knows the body rots after that. Its everything else concerning death that is a mystery

This argument always puzzles me, and especially how often it's used. Maybe I just can't view it from the right angle, but as a rule even if something isn't exactly nice doesn't mean it's wrong. It doesn't mean it's right either, but in a mainly logic driven world where there must rationalizations and reasons, is it really enough to believe because the alternative doesn't sound as beautiful?

Many atheists probably assume (okay, I assume) that for many people religion is an escape. That's why the meanies refer it to as 'fairytales' and all that jazz. Christianity has very beautiful ideas of salvation and mercy, and if it's true that would indeed be lovely. But have you ever thought of yourself and your belief and asked if you really believe in the teachings or spiritual ideals... or you just don't want to believe the opposite, out of fear or denial or something else?

Urgh, I tried to not sound offensive, not sure if succeeded.

I have two questions, do you know what decomposition is? What evidence is there of an afterlife?

I think everyone, religious or not knows that the body decomposes. It does sound mean to some so they change it.

I believe that I will be absorbed into the live stream to help the earth regenerate after the dark materia is used.

Just because the thought of a "God" is encoded into our DNA doesn't mean there IS a God or an afterlife.
I don't believe in an after life because we don't have souls, and there has yet to be evidence to prove the existence of an afterlife. (Even the word "afterlife": Life after Death? Then what is "life"?).

And why the fuck would you want to exist forever anyway?

An Atheist believes there is no afterlife because that is what he believes. There is no tangible proof that there is otherwise and that is what the foundation of his belief comes from.

Personally I'm an Agnostic Theist. I believe there is a spiritual, but it cannot easily be defined by man because, as we all know and admit, we are seriously flawed. Do I believe in an afterlife? yes. Do I think its heaven? no. The truth is probably somewhere between Asgard and Heaven with a bit of reincarnation thrown in, but I can't hazard a guess.

Religion is too often about control for my liking. I am not talking about the basic foundation of laws and how to treat one and other. No, I'm talking about how many religions use the afterlife as a way of keeping you believing in them rather than another religion, implying there is only one way to get a reward, their way. A basic case I sometimes use, Vlad the Impaler was a christian hero, he is in heaven because of the rules of how Christianity forgives sins on Earth. But Gandhi is in hell, not because he was a cruel man, but because he didn't believe. Christianity doesn't believe being a good man, even being Gandhi good, is enough to get you in heaven. So basically I see a flaw. There has been a vast majority of the planet that has had no access to Christianity that is now burning in hell because they didn't buy the Jesus ticket.

Naturally, most religions are flawed in this way or others. But I believe in more than Religion. Something not so defined or rigid. What is in the afterlife is something I will find when I'm there.

I am an atheist.
Believers have no proof of the existence of God, and non believers have no proof that God doesn't exist.
We cannot prove God, we cannot disprove God.

If I die I simply cease to live, what comes after is of your own choosing.
No one really knows what comes after death, and no one would.

Feel free to believe in a God, I don't really care about your beliefs, and you shouldn't care about mine either.

Belief of the afterlife can ease one's mind on the topic of death, it's a way to calm one's fear down, basically an excuse. That is was atheists foremost believe, which I do as well. Believing into science, or rather pure biology, gives ourselves the feeling of strength over our fears and weaknesses related to death. This is just as much a facade to ease our minds.

Who cares about what's after death, shouldn't we be more worried about the people who are still alive.

A good point, but the afterlife is a concept that has gripped humanity since the beginning, true we shouldn't worry about it too much, but as they say "curiosity killed the cat"

excuse me for the bad pun *cough*

I'm athiest because i believe humans work like machines, we're comprised of many components that work together to complete tasks, malfunctions occur when we recieve damage or if their was a manufacturing error.

I think like machines, when we die we just can no longer compute. the power source is gone but unlike machines another piece wont return life...