The carrot to those still living of a beautiful afterlife and the mythos surrounding that seems incredibly useful evolutionarily. That said, it could also just

The carrot to those still living of a beautiful afterlife and the mythos surrounding that seems incredibly useful evolutionarily. That said, it could also just be an implementation quirk. There’s some interesting work out there on what exactly happens in the brain during the moments surrounding death, and it relates in an interesting way to the neural correlates of consciousness. Also related to the state of being conscious without attentional content.