Or apparently just ignored.
I have experienced the self beyond the self, beyond the ego that is this person typing this message. I can safely say that if I pass beyond into that greater eternity, of which this person is only a mere fleeting moment, the need to communicate that fact to existing fleeting mortal moments will be humorously pointless.
If there was an afterlife, Isaac Asimov would have already written a book about it by now.
I like you guys and all. But when I wake up and find myself dead, ya’ll will be the furthest thing from my mind.
You’ll be fine if you avoid Churchill.
Perhaps you have to wait 41 years before coming back…
But as the saying goes: A bear is what it eats.
Why would you be able to communicate with the afterlife? Isn’t the idea that religion sells us is that a good afterlife (heaven) is only obtainable if you live a good life and follow the rules; hell awaits those that ignore those rules. If God were to set up some sort of a communications network between the here and now and the great beyond, the mystery would be gone. You will be able to get the answers to the surprise quiz before your class meets. That would ruin the system for everyone. Especially if you find out that heaven and hell are just bullshit, and when you die, you just enter another world with more problems. Maybe you find yourself with that ex-sweetheart of yours that you didn’t marry, and you are living in a house in Detroit. God wouldn’t want that news to get out.
Actually, there is a bit of merit to this train of thought. If Einstein is correct, the only time travel that would actually be possible would be travel into the future. But there would be no going back, so in essence, you are stuck. And my guess is no one would believe you and you’d be thrown into a rubber room anyway, so what’d be the point? So if someone shows up at your doorstep, odds are he’s from the past… And he can’t go home. Give him a meal and send him on his way. But be nice. He’ll be very depressed.
Reincarnation. I’m sure it’s been mocked on this board.
What if, after you die, your consciousness ends up inside a Black Hole, from which no signals can proceed?
Makes as much sense as detecting ghosts with voice recordings or infrared cameras.
Given that most Doper’s appear to have a difficult enough time communicating with the living, what is the basis of this statement?
A more serious response is what does “life after death” mean in any real sense? That you move to some other plane of existence where you maintain some recognizable form as if you were moving to a new, really really nice town?
That any of the information that could be considered “you” (i.e. memories, thoughts, personality, etc) is retained somewhere or passed along in some way that other people can access it?
Thanks, Mom! My favorite! 
Well, when I had my bypass surgery I was out (And I mean OUT) for about 6 hours.
I don’t remember a thing. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero. A total blank!
I think this is what death is like. Not too bad I thought when I regained consciousness.There was no “I”, no “Being” just… Nothing.
People shouldn’t worry about dying, you’re just going back to where you were before you were born. 
There’s two different camps on this one. If we were to take you, and wipe every single memory from your brain, is the conscious person that remains, still you?
Camp 1) No, since you are the composite of all your memories and experiences. Consciousness is not, in and of itself, a fundamental state of being. It is a bucket that requires to be filled with a human experience and perspective. The blank, awoken you, is now a new being ready for new installments, using your former body.
Camp 2) Yes, as you are who you are whether you remember anything or not. Your consciousness remains intrinsically tied to your brain and body, and despite have zero memories, you’ll awake a confused being in the same body, no matter how many times we wipe your brain. Your consciousness is a fundamental state if being.
Apparently you fall in camp 1.
It would be truly fascinating if we could get a detailed explanation of how the afterlife works from Polycarp, or a report on how all the other late dopers are doing from Norinew, or even just a Hi from Opal …
They’ve all got better things to do.
I knew that was coming.
Psychic and a Speaker for the Dead
Presumably, in the form of a shaggy zombie dog story.
Asimov will be reincarnated as a robot with a positronic brain at some point in the future.
Everyone knows this.