The afterlife is a great mystery... sort of. If you believe what the bible says upon your death you are in something akin to a deep and dreamless sleep until the great day of resurrection and judgement. Other religions say you keep being reborn into human life until you reach total enlightenment. I believe we are eternal souls who choose to return from the "collective" to live on earth in these bodily avatars to experience all that earthly life has to offer and when we have seen and done all that we want we can choose eternal rest in the "collective". I believe that "Heaven" is whatever we imagine it to be and that eventually we ALL go there. Hell was created for Lucifer and the angels who rebelled against the Creator.
As an American it's your responsibility to have your own strategic duck stockpile. You can't expect the government to do it for you.