Is Life After Death Possible?

You can only hope to achieve an afterlife if you have some sort of immaterial or non-physical soul or essence or personality or spirit, etc. which carries on carrying on after the demise of your materialistic and totally physical body. When you die your physical body and your material brain go nowhere, so if a part of you goes anywhere after death, it has to be a non-physical or an immaterial part of you.

But in a really real reality world, the concept of an alleged afterlife is pure nonsense since the egg and sperm that conceive multicellular beings (like you) have no encoded immaterial or associated non-physical aspects to genetically pass on. Since your mother's egg had no mind, no essence, no spirit, no personality, etc. and ditto that for your father's sperm, at conception you had no immaterial essence or non-physical mind, no knowledge, no creativity, no spirit, and especially nothing in the way of a soul that you could possibly have had genetically passed on to you by your parents.

Of course at conception you also had no brains, no heart, no lungs, and no sensory organs of any kind or even any real body yet to speak of. All of that material stuff flowed on by the materialistic nature that was built into your genetics and the physical additions to your newly conceived 'body' (heart, brain, etc.) came via nutrients supplied via your mother's body; and post birth via your own feeding and breathing.

So any 'soul' or any 'mind' or any 'essence' that you acquired are material in nature just like your body / brain and thus its tough luck for any hoped for duality and the sort of benefits that might have resulted in, like say evidence of an afterlife. You are entirely 100% material at the end of your term since that's how you started out.