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The science end of it is clear enough: our species appeared several hundred thousand years ago in Africa, one of several hominid species of that period, including our ancestral branch Homo erectus, the first of our genus to venture outside Africa.

Nothing. Dying is not unlike going to sleep, when our consciousness shuts down, only this time no waking up.

Even with modern medicine to supply a few repair parts for some breakdowns, too much of the internal plumbing isn't amenable to that. 

Jim Downard offers his own script for what an atheist might say as an invocation, something fair and honest that doesn't make "presumptions on the religious convictions of those assembled."