Personally, I believe there is an after life.
I believe it because there just has to be a place for terminally ill and disabled children to go to, (if not the rest of us), where they are free from their afflictions- where they can experience the fullness of their being, and everything they didn't get to do while they were here.
You were probably just making a comment on an idea, but it struck me........
What a pity that this is the only reason you believe in an afterlife. I wonder if you even realize how very sad that is?
We have the Bible, we have all mankind teaching about religion, millions of churches. Christ came, taught us and died for us and 2000+ years later, His short life has had the most profound effect on man of any being.
Yet - all of this is nothing to make you believe. You believe because you feel the sick must have a place to do the things they did not get to do here.
On top of this sad statement, you equate the total desire in life is merely a life equal to what healthy people had. That life of course was filled, with joy, and sadness, tragedy and death. Yet, God promises us so much, much more. We are promised eternal life with God, freedom from death and illness.
And, to get it, all we are required to do is to believe that Jesus is the Son of God, be baptised for the remission of our past sins, and then we walk through this life with God and Jesus.
Yet - so very often - this is ignored, God is ignored, and Christ denied or man alters the requirements to get eternal life.
Why is man so very stupid? They continually discount God and His teachings and seek their own view of what God must require for eternal life, or find idols to worship instead of God.
(Note, I am not chastising you about your beliefs, but for some reason, your statement seemed so sad and so unaware of God's plan. It reminded me of how man goes to extreme lengths to ignore God or His teachings. Of course, you might have just been expressing a point.)
May God help you find your way to Him if you do not believe currently.
I've found the NDEs pretty startling when they can describe what was going on in the next room while they were 'clinically dead'!
Young children have described relatives who were 'gone' by the time they were born. Very intriguing.
Personally, I believe there is an after life.
Of course there is. Otherwise it all seems pretty pointless.