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The Science of the Afterlife:

Death is one of the few certainties in life, but humans have always been obsessed with the idea of an afterlife. From ancient Egyptian beliefs to Victorian seances, there has been a persistent fascination with the notion that we might live on beyond our natural end. Even in secular society, around a third of atheists still believe in some form of continuation of consciousness after death. So why do we find the idea of death so unsettling, and what does science tell us about the afterlife?