It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
~ Marcus Aurelius

An academic discussion on the consequences that we may, or may not in face in an after life will not resolve the challenges that each of us faces every day we rise from our bed.

'The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, A Hell of Heav'n.'
-Paradise Lost, John Milton