An Atheist Look At Death
If you look at the world from a rational point of view, all life dies. Death is part of existence. All death results in the elements of life being broken and reused by other organisms. That is death plan and simple. The place that theists and atheists disagree is if the human life has a soul or spirit that survives and carries on up to another plain of existence or is reincarnated. To cross this path across plains is quite different for each religion out there.
Catholics, Hindus and Muslims have very different views on what happens after you die and how to get to where you want to go. Even Tibetan Buddhists have a book on death that guides you through the process of reincarnation. The atheist view is the concept that a soul or spirit is a primitive idea with absolutely no basis of fact. The view that religious organizations are using fear on gullible people to get them to believe in these ideals for their own person gain.
If you take a look at Charles Darwin’s work Origin of Species religious groups were very upset with it because it basically spelled out that human beings were not important or more special than any other organism out there. They would agree that every other organism out there that isn’t a homo sapiens doesn’t have a soul, but were not willing to conclude that they themselves didn’t have souls. I think atheists view death a simply the end of our legacy. Our death brings consumption and rebirth of other organisms to exist in this world. That is all it is.
