Reason tells us that our lives have a beginning and an end. But reason is but a small part of our thought process.
The Liberals in the Democrat Party long ago learned this and set out to exploit the fact that in the vast majority of people emotion overwhelms reason. Emotion frames our experiences, colors them and makes them real.
Death has been far removed from the daily life of most people in the modern world. We rarely ever experience death in our daily lives. We die in hospitals and nursing homes for the most part. Often alone. Our families too busy to attend to the needs of a sick parent or child they are in the hospital cared for by professional care givers.
My mother as a child watched her grandfather be consumed by cancer in her parents’ home. She helped care for him until she watched him take his last breath. His funeral was in that same house.
Death was real, and it was personal. In the modern world death has been removed from our daily lives and has been farmed out to professionals.
Death is a concept that most do not deal with until it comes knocking at our own door.
With out the emotions of dealing with death we do not truly recognize its reality.
In the past every person who reached the age of 12 had watched several close relatives die. Death was always near and personal.
It is easy to discount an afterlife because people emotionally do not experience the end of this life.
No afterlife, no God.
I do not think that we are unaware of death. Even as children, we see many deaths every year on TV. The problem is that the materialistic assumptions of modern science and philosophy resist serious consideration of the evidence of an afterlife.