I very strongly believe and hope that we just cease existing after this, I could personally never see existence in any form as being appealing or desirable, I only wish for permanent nothingness where everything is finally forgotten about with no more suffering for all eternity. To me any other theories are just fictional, I see existence as being the true problem which can only be solved by death.
I adopt the same scientific conclusion. Once the brain goes into apoptosis, neurobiological activity ceases, and you're in the same state as you were before you were born: none.
In some cases, there may be a protracted continuation of consciousness despite clinically dead vital signs in reports of NDEs. At critical oxygen-deficiency levels, hallucinatory and mystical experiences produced by a disorganized misfiring of endorphins and other neurotransmitters reach such a high level of disorder (including the release of DMT in cerebrospinal fluid) at death that they produce mystical psychedelic effects that religious people would experience as a welcome into an afterlife.
Interestingly, a recall a study where atheists reported such profound experiences on DMT resulting in lasting changes (in some cases, 40% or so regressing from their previously strongly held non-beliefs in support of a 'benevolent entity' of sorts).
Either way, the intensity of NDE or DMT experiences is nothing more than a poorly understood biological process, not a portal to the afterlife transcending the laws of physics or the universe to go onto another world (or body).
Conjoined twins at the head/brain can see through each other's eyes, access each other's feelings. They also share consciousness through the thalamic bridge (brain's switchboard). If reincarnation is true, would they be reincarnated into separate entities in the latter life even though they physically existed as one in the former? Each also possesses their own intracerebral autonomy, so if one were an atheist and the other an evangelical in a mixed sense, would the twinset go to heaven or hell (or be surgically disjointed in a post-mortem metaphysical operation)?
