If you don't believe in an afterlife, what is your motivation?

[TheRapingDragon]

Originally Posted by FoJaR

why wont you have your memories in an afterlife?

forgive me if i dont make that logical leap.

Because I believe that memories are part of your brain, when you die your brain dies, if anything we are a collection of molecules, bacteria, etc. When we die all of that scatters to find another organism to inhabit, thus everything about "you" is broken up, scattered, and replaced. Thus, if anything of you "lives on" it will never be in the same original form, with the same original memories.

Apologies if some of that seems stupid, my science never was A* material.