Why should I care what happens to me when I'm dead?

Of all the Trillions of molecular combinations that could have happened, one was me. There are so many possibilities, so many that could have been greater than Mozart, Jim Morrison, Albert Einstein or any such combination of nucleic acids, but I got the chance.

So I'm seriously happy that I get the chance to exist, to love, learn, smell beautiful volatile organic compounds from fresh flowers or bacon grilling on a skillet, I can experience sexual pleasure and warp my mind with psychotropic substances, I can marvel at the wonders of the human imagination or at nature in it's most serene and most tempestuous.

I can enjoy every single joy this life can bring me, without guilt or looking over my shoulder.

I can do all this without mind invading dogma or personal sacrifice, I don't need to adhere to any outdated odious code, only the morals of my inherited genes and maybe the law of the land (but that depends).

There is no hope. You'll be dead.

Which is why you should live life to the fullest while you still can. After all, you only get one.

My life doesn't have to have a meaning. That doesn't make it any less fun. When you watch a movie you know it will eventually end, does that mean you never watch any movies?

I don't need false hope and empty promises to comfort me, I can face reality, and as they say, truth hurts. Yeah, I'm going to die sometime in the next sixty or so years, and no, I don't think I'm going anywhere afterwards, but why would that bother me? I won't exist to be sad about it anymore.

You were in a state of non-existence for trillions of years before your birth, were you scared then? No, you didn't exist. So why should you be scared of returning to that state?

Instead of spending your only life worrying and preparing for death, why don't you live it? There's a reason that even Christian people say "you only live once", and I think that's because deep down, we know this is our only chance to live, otherwise we'd be saying YOLF (you only live forever), and not doing anything fun.

I'll leave you with a quote from a man who you'll probably hate with a burning passion, I got the shivers when I watched this speech the first time.

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here." – Richard Dawkins

Well it's a real shame people see life as just an annoying obstacle on the way to something better. Enjoy life!

forgive me but YOLLOOOO!!!! just because you don't want to accept you'll die doesn't mean theres a god. You must face this, it happens to everyone. Just be thankful that you won the lottery to get life against all odds. Out of millions of possible you's that could have come from your parents dna combinations you were the one that got lucky. And also due to the law of conservational energy you'll never truly be gone. No energy is ever destroyed, you'll still be here just in a different form.

Their is no hope when you die as an atheists because your not going to heaven. Your going to the opposite of heaven called hell.

I don't need no stinking hope of an afterlife to live my life the way I want to, because when I'm dead... I'm dead. End of story.

Hope will not exist when you're dead. You will not exist when you're dead. Sad in some ways, but at least we got a chance to see this beautiful world :-) Have fun!

Does there need to be hope? I think of life as a lucky 1 in a million chance to make an impact on this world. I live life to the fullest because I know this is what I've got and I'm lucky to have it.

The truly great thing about debunking the whole God-Jesus myth is that you come to realize there probably isn't an after-life. That means this moment right here and now is all we get. None of this banking on some fantastic afterlife. This is all we get. We have to be accountable for our actions now. We have to make the most of our lives now. After all, "now" is all we really have.