What happens after death for an atheist?

The same thing that happens to every living thing after it dies ... it becomes food for the life that remains!Are you so shallow as to think that just because we have just this one short life that life is meaningless and we shouldn't strive to better things and expand our knowledge? What a small minded person you are. How old are you? Are you just some ignorant kid or are you an adult of some years?A person can make a mark in this world by what they have accomplished and published for the world to know. After all we on this site often refer to Darwin, our founding fathers, even Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov and others who have long past shuffled off their mortal coil. To be dead does not mean you have no influence on the living. Yes our minds will be gone but maybe some of us lives on in our works.

Oh, so atheists haven't thought about it already?! In my opinion it is the believers who haven't thought things through.

Your entire reply is out of context of this topic. LDSDude was not acknowledging that our short lives are meaningless, he was saying that unless there is a hereafter our lives are meaningless. And yes I think that he is small minded for thinking so. In the big picture you paint, nothing really matters as we and everything that has ever existed will be gone, but as long as I'm alive and functional, a lot of things have meaning to me. If you don't want to care about anything, then just go ahead and have a meaningless life.

Listen LizardHalitois, the above is a false analogy. The universe doesn't have to have purpose for someone to find meaning in life. Furthermore your responses are troll like and I have no further wish to correspond with you.

The problem with your responses are they are sophomoric and don't add to the discussion. It's like I say I like the color purple and you come back and say "How can you like purple if the universe has no purpose?". That's not a discussion that's a way to pick a fight and is very troll-like. Most people don't derive meaning from life from what science tells us, we derive meaning from life from what interests us, drives us, moves us, and just being. Science our best tool to discover how everything works within our abilities to use it and it sometimes tells us stuff that's hard to face. But should I hide from that reality by buring my face in mythology or should I accept the reality and go forward and enjoy life? I chose to enjoy life.

Because he asked a question. Maybe honestly, maybe not, but I thought it deserved an answer. Now if he keeps up his modus operani, then I will stop responding.