I would like to thank all of your replies, especially the first two, those from p0ly and manaman, they have made the most sense to me.
I now think that life is a spiritual journey, and we are here to improve ourselves. I will try my best to live in harmony with the world, and the people in it. The sheer fact that we exist, is to amazing to contemplate. There must be an afterlife.
I found this online, I think it is a fantastic analogy;
“To many people, the body is like how a television would be perceived by a man from the 19th century. If you showed him images of a movie on your TV screen, he would come to the very logical 19th century conclusion that the images are inside the TV. If the TV was broken and no longer worked, your visitor from the past would reasonably conclude that the images he had seen on the TV screen had stopped existing.
He would have no way of knowing that the images he had seen were actually invisible beams of energy from far away – and the TV was only a receiving device.
Many people in our own century are just like the 19th century fellow. They don’t realize that the “brain” is like a TV receiver, and that the energy still exists even when that receiver no longer functions”
