Bill, your death will provide the definitive answers that you seem to be seeking. You will have absolute confirmation. It'll either "all be over" then...or it won't. ;-) And if it won't "all be over" then, you probably won't have any way of telling those who have outlived you about what they're missing! ;-) That could be pretty frustrating, eh?

Until then, however, it's all just idle speculation, so why not just put up with the fact that you don't know for sure?

I don't see that you really have any choice in the matter, because there IS no way you can prove whether or not there's an afterlife or a "God" or anything else like that...since if there was, it would very likely not be observable as any kind of phenomena in this space-time continuum, therefore it would not be susceptible to scientific testing at all.

And, yes, you and Amos and I have been discussing that for years.    Why do you discuss it so much, Bill?