Does the Soul Exist?

Question:: 
What do you think happens after every organism dies? If Jesus Christ nevers comes back to Earth but the sun burns out, what chance is there survival in all the universe? Are we just non-exist like before we were born?
Atheist Answer: 

Short answer: If there's no Rapture, we will all die in the end, and permanently. Saying so will not make the Rapture happen. We deal with it.

We might escape the solar system before the sun dies, and even if Earth-based life dies out it could start again somewhere else, but eventually the whole universe will be too hot or too cold to support life and anything remaining will die. There might be other universes (concurrent or subsequent) where new life emerges, but let's not get into that.

We live in a changing universe where life-friendly times and places are fleeting. Our chances of survival reduce towards zero the farther you look into the future. Sorry.

You have it right: since eternal life is the invention of religions, after death we will not exist, just like before we were born.

Does this frighten us? Sometimes, because it's difficult to even conceive of not existing. That's my best guess at why religions claim to offer eternal life: the alternative may be literally unthinkable, even if true.

Nevertheless we accept our mortality, and it drives us to make the most of the single, finite life we each have.

Have a nice day. I'm sure trying to.

- SmartLX

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I would guess that the

I would guess that the universe did quite well before my "existence" and will do quite well after it ceases. If you want to know what happens to something after it dies, look at something that is dead. It is quite egotistical to think that our sun burning out would effect the rest of the universe as we are not the center of it as thought in biblical times. If there is life in other parts of it I suspect it would go on as if we never existed at all.

For those of you that claim to not have evolved from a more primitive life form, all I can say is "be patient".