content: they die they're just going to rot in the dirt.  You shouldn't word it that way. Religious people operate under the delusion they are going to exist forever in some form. When you die you cease to exist. If you imply "they", as in the person they are right now, is going to rot in the dirt you're giving into their narrative and conceding the fact they'll live forever. It's better to think of it as their corpse will rot in the dirt because now they believe that you believe in an afterlife too, you just disagree on what exactly it is.