@abacusvolute,
Abacusvolute,
interesting and genuine post.
I tend to think that much of our problems with the notion of mortality and immortality reflects the problem of our notion of the linear structure of time.
Do you feel that the problems you--and most people have--with the idea of our "after life" situation will be significantly different from our "before birth" situation? They don't seem different to me. "Before birth" began with an eternally infinite non-beginning, and our "after life" situation (whatever it may be) will end with an eternally infinite non-ending. As "I" recall (consider Fresco's post?) my before birth situation was not a problem, so I have some grounds for assuming that my after life situation will be similar: non-problematical.
If time is not linear, if it doesn't go on forever and ever, perhaps the present is in some sense eternal. That is to say, every changing moment is timelessly eternal, but since it is constantly changing it is also impermanent--eternally impermanent, if you don't mind oxmorons.
The bottom line for me is that this problem is all in my mind--where, I suppose, everything else is