Columbia's Final Minutes in Detail
grub writes "This article on Newsday has an excerpt from 'Comm Check... The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia,' by Michael Cabbage and William Harwood describing the last minutes of Columbia's final flight in detail."
Those are the type of people I hope to run into in the afterlife. Those that died doing something, not of something.
Chances are good that those skeptical, scientific people you mentioned would laugh at you for believing in an afterlife.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.