Someone offer me an argument that death extinguishes consciousness.

No proof available on that one, either way. Now, I suppose you could "dumb down" the definition of consciousness to a purely physical perspective, and then prove that consciousness ceases with death - but is that all consciousness is, a purely physical process? I think there's more to it, but I won't know for sure until after I'm dead.

I think there are some here who would "dumb down" the definition of religious faith and of God, to make them easier to refute. If God were the god of the fundamentalists, he/she/it would be relatively easy to disprove. But that ain't the case.

-Joe-