Even if we extend the term individual to its usual designation of personal existence from birth to death, the idea of an individual apart from community is meaningless. (religion-online.org)
The expectation of conscious personal existence beyond death will gradually be abandoned. (religion-online.org)
It is also a matter of historical record that countless generations of people in many vigorous cultures have lived meaningful and ethically robust lives without any belief in continued personal existence after death. (religion-online.org)