//If there was no life after death everyone gets the same punishment as Hitler.//

If there's no afterlife, Hitler doesn't get punished after death.

//Somehow I think most know they will either be judged for their sins or receive mercy.//

Ultimately nobody knows either way until they die, runner, but some people like to pretend they do as a way to scam money from gullible people like you.

' Ultimately nobody knows either way until they die, runner, but some people like to pretend they do as a way to scam money from gullible people like you.'

yep Toni either Jesus was a liar or He told the truth. Personally I know who I believe.

//yep Toni either Jesus was a liar or He told the truth//

I didn't know you'd met Jesus, runner. You aren't the Wandering Jew by any chance?

Dear NathanJ,

What a great topic given the technological progress that has been made in mapping neural networks.

A few years ago scientists took the quite basic neural structure of a round worm which from memory contained a few hundred synapses and mapped. They then replicated it and uploaded the coded structure into a lego robot.

“The open source project recently had its first major breakthrough when its software -- modeled on the neurons of the worm's nervous system -- independently controlled a Lego robot. The machine's sensors, without any prior programming, made the robot behave in a similar fashion to C. elegans, approaching and backing away from obstacles or stimulated by food.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/21/tech/mci-lego-worm/index.html

While granted the human brain contains millions of neurons rather than hundreds it is now a matter of scale. Just as genome sequencing started with the Epstein-Barr virus the Human Genome Project was completed about 15 years later.

What the future holds no one knows, but it is entirely within the realms of possibility that a person's brain might be able to be transposed onto a silicone chip complete with personality, memories, and intelligence. In fact it is in this form that people feel we will explore the universe. One not constrained to small acceleration speeds, nor bulky anti-radiation protection, nor needing to be provisioned.

Of course there will be philosophical discussions on whether this constitutes life, and whether a brain on a chip has rights, but it is exciting to think our intelligences will one day cease to require our biology.

there is genetic immortality,, the old cells producing young cells(children)to
survive and keep going when the parent cell dies.

It is called the cycle of life.

As for the afterlife, noone really know do they, although we all would like to think there is, and try to have faith that there is.

What about you Nathan J? Do you have any thoughts on life after death? Or hopes or fears regarding it?