To put it another way, religion contains adherents who are strongly certain that death is an absolute requirement to reach a far more ideal, more pleasant and pain free place which humans were truly meant to inhabit and with little doubt.Who among such a flock would not prefer the end of this life occur sooner rather than later, should they be genuinely convicted about belief in the aims and claims of their faith? How, then, does this align with interest in continued existence on any plane?
But that completely ignores the fact that there is no afterlife. YOU reside in a 3lb lump of neurons we call brain. When the brain dies the mind (YOU) disappears. There is no longer any AWARENESS of any kind, only absolute NOTHINGNESS.
As Anil Seth posits; “When you die there is nothing to be afraid of, nothing at all”.