Since there is no evidence to suggest otherwise there is no reason whatsoever to believe that there is any sort of life for the individual after their death. I can't help it if you are not willing to accept the obvious facts. It's theist such as yourself that keep this 'debate based on ignorance' going for all of society. You think that just because it 'might' be true, and clearly you want it to be, and since it can't be disproven you think it's perfectly okay to continue to think there is an aferlife. But like I've said before we can all 'what if', 'just in case', and 'might be' ourselves in to believing ANYTHING. To do that is insanity. If there isn't sufficent evidence to believe something as life altering as 'life after death' then we SHOULDN'T Believe it, because to simply believe such a thing on faith alone is wishful thinking at best and completely delusional at worst.
that's your belief, though. there's no evidence, so you don't believe in it. fine, all well and good, but it's still just YOUR belief with no more evidence to disprove it than i have to prove it. the only difference being, i'm not asking you to disprove it. i'm fine if you don't want to believe in an afterlife or eternal soul. that's your affair. but declaring it like it's some kind of empirical fact backed by mounds of evidence and data is and thus the debate should be ended is ridiculous, arrogant and intellectually irresponsible.
putting all that aside for a second, though...why does it matter to you? you talk about belief in the afterlife, in ANY afterlife, in anything beyond meat and decay and oblivion as though it were dangerous with vast negative consequences. but what are they? if i believe in Heaven or reincarnation or any number of possibilities beyond "we die and we're gone and it's over," where's the harm? where's the foul?
the most upsetting thing is that you're not only telling people what they should and shouldn't believe (why atheists decided to start borrowing strategies from the fundamentalist playbook, i have no idea), but also telling them on what criteria they should believe anything: yours. you demand absolute empirical proof, or near enough to it, before you believe anything. that's your process, that's how your mind works. it's not how everyone else thinks or feels, though. i'm all for logic and rationality, but i also belief in faith and instinct and imagination. as long as you're not acting on your beliefs, be they theist, spiritualist, atheist or agnostic, in such a way that is harmful to others or the world around you...why not just let it be? the world would be a dreadfully boring place if we all believed the same things and thought the same way.
if you're right, then we're all just mulch anyway. i feel and believe that there's something more to us and to all of this than that. i don't KNOW what it is, but i believe that it's there.