Did you know that time and space have no notion of the angels of heaven? Nor no evidence for them, either.

That's because their existence is not contingent upon time and space and, that in fact they reside in a different dimension, similar to the realm of our imagination. Which, is the very aspect of ourselves that we experience as "being alive" by the way.

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So when the body dies, and consciousness departs, where do "we" go? ... Off to define another "reality" perhaps?

"Similar to" in the sense of being "absolutely identical to".

And why is it that when we speak of dying, we like to think we will somehow "live on" through other people? It seems awfully sentimental don't you think, even coming from Atheists, especially. And yet maybe it's closer to reality than we think?

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So when the body dies, and consciousness departs, where do "we" go? ... Off to define another "reality" perhaps?

You really don't get metaphors, do you?

Why should atheists not be sentimental? We are the ones fully cognizant that we have lost a friend, and will not see her or him again in some fictitious afterlife; we have every right to be sentimental.