Is it normal to be an atheist, yet embrace death?

I OD when I was in college and Was dead for 4 minutes before getting CPR to restart my heart. I experienced a complete lack of any consciousness or awareness of any type. It can best be described as simply "nothing". Kinda like when your sleeping(not dreaming). I was an atheist before but this incident further enforced my opinion that there is no afterlife.

It's not a requirement of being an atheist. It pisses me off how some people call themselves atheists and they don't even know what it really means. You can even get spiritual atheists

I hope the soul doesn't just "sit there." How boring it would be to have sit and watch this world go by for who knows how many millennia. Booooring!

Are Atheists supposed to be afraid of death?

You don't sound like an atheist.
You sound like a superstitious/scared person that wants to be atheist.

Cheers!

Same here. I don't think there is an afterlife and I really hope there isn't, wether it's good or bad. When my end is near I want it to a real end.

I guess it could be normal. I don't think the two ideas are mutually exclusive.

Of course it's okay. I think that SOMETHING else happens after we die, we go to another place/plane, but no one really KNOWS and that's why it's intriguing.

You sound spiritual, perhaps you should do some exploring.

There is scientific reincarnation, OP. Your body, when it decays, will feed the grass that feeds the antelope that feeds the human embryo.

Mustafah: For we are all connected, in the great circle of life.

There is nothing to say that is you are an atheist you cant embrace death. I am an atheist and I can't wait for death tbh. I love the idea of there being an infinite sleep when you die!
As I said before, we dont have written laws saying ATHEISTS MUST FEAR DEATH AND WANT TO LIVE!! That'd just mess up atheism in a way.
See ya in the afterlife [or not]!

Feels a bit like stretching the atheist with the prospect of afterlife and stuff like that.

I would say normal.

I see ourselves as a combination of impulses and hormones and some other stuff going around. I don't believe in free will. And believe death is just nothing. The impulses will stop and so will my existence. Still I embrace death, being nothing is fine. I'm enjoying my existence, but when it stops it stops, not like I could/can really care about it when I'm dead. So why worry now.

I don't think it's normal for anyone to embrace death regardless of religion or lack of religion.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Simply for the fact that it's a basic law of physics that matter can neither be created or destroyed, I've wondered if that holds true for consciousness too.

Still, there's one badass thing about death. The brain functions for 6 to 12 minutes after the body dies. Since there are no senses, it is essentially dream time. And that can be a long time in dream time... I want to see what I'll dream after my body dies.

You should try to be Christian. (I am ready to embrace the vulgar replies to this comment)