As an atheist what do you have to look forward to? A full life free of superstious fear, less anger, less hatred, a more open mind, a more open heart, to name a few. But what about the afterlife? There is no afterlife. If you die, and then you're someplace else, you didn't really die, your situation changed but you are not dead, death is non existence, like what happens when you try to remember what the world was like before you were born.