Tophat665

Precisely.

The afterlife, if I am correct, has no objective reality. However, the process of life's ending is subjectively eternal. So whatever is in the mind when the mind shuts down is the afterlife.

It is at least part of the purpose of each religion to make it possible for that short span of eternal time to be glorious or at least understandable. Thus the prescription of reading the Tibetan book of the dead to the dying, to reinforce that version of the afterlife for as long as hearing lasts. Thus the reliance on total faith in devotional cults from Jesus Christ to Bhagawan Sri Rajneesh.

The theory seems to me to fit the facts. Right down to that fellow who did experiments on the heads of the recently guillotined during the French revolution to see how long consciousness remained (It turned out to be something between 5 & 45 minutes, IIRC).

__________________
Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns.
Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.