Why you shouldn't pray for me on my deathbed.

This was posted by The Perplexed Observer, it reflects my own feelings.

For those of you who are religious and seem to have a difficult time understanding why it is disrespectful for one to pray over or for an atheist, please consider this.

We do not believe in an afterlife or the possibility of redemption after our death. We believe in the necessity of compassion in this life. We live by the conviction that love, joy, pain and all other emotions can only be experienced in the here and now. We believe that we only have this once chance to achieve our goals, share our ideas and do right by our fellow human beings as well as all other sentient life forms.

So you see, prayers offer no comfort to a dying atheist or their families. In fact, when religious people say that death isn’t real, it diminishes our death and the death of our love ones and it cheapens the life they have lived.