re: If you knew that there was/wasn't an after life, would it change how you live your life?

Some opinions are more likely true than others.

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Would you be more giving of yourself if there was a god or give into your temptations and not care about how your actions affect anyone but your self?

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Temptations to do or not do what? What's your benchmark, your plumb line to determine right behavior from wrong and whether or not the temptations are in a right or wrong direction?

And are there any consequences, positive or negative, to caving in to your temptations? And, do you really care one way or the other?

How were you raised? What did your parents and grandparents teach you?

Because if you think the answer is here on the OT...we'll, you get shite like a fictional quote from a fictional TV detective expressing his fictional hard-bitten attitude to real questions that go to the heart of what we all want to know. Why am I here? What is life about and what's its purpose? What happens when I die?

Good and legitimate questions one and all. Really only two options though: Upon death, total nothingness or eternal life existing beyond physical death of the body. So, my advice fwiw is to find a legitimate pastor or priest who is a real believer and intellectually acute to explore one option and research the other as best you can. (PS Don't go to one of those blasphemous health/prosperity/wealth preachers like the guy fleecing his flock for a jet. They have no clue as to what Christianity is about.)

I'm know what I believe and profess and because I have wrestled with your questions I take you seriously
and pray you find some answers and peace.

We will shed our physical bodies and move toward a digital lifeform that is never-ending.

There’s always an authority figure lurking somewhere you will have to abide by. Every single day.

I may not donate as many millions of dollars to charity and volunteer at the children’s hospital less

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But what about proton decay and whatnot?

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In particle physics, proton decay is a hypothetical form of radioactive decay in which the proton decays into lighter subatomic particles, such as a neutral pion and a positron. The proton decay hypothesis was first formulated by Andrei Sakharov in 1967. There is currently no experimental evidence that proton decay occurs. -Wiki

My luck those that believe go to heaven and those that don't have nothingness. A real life choose your own adventure.

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Side note, belivers in Christ aren’t held to a good/bad behavior list. If your believe he is the savior of our sins then you will be rewarded eternity. Example, the criminal on the cross next to Jesus who proclaimed his belief that Jesus was the Lord.

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you sure?

Might want to double check that

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Well, think of it this way: Every atom that is part of your make-up will remain unchanged. It's just the way they interact that defines you, after all.

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Thanks for that. It makes it somewhat more reassuring to think about death in that context. Ultimately, religion and the thought of "Paradise" were created by pre-civilized man who thought the earth was flat and that there were no other planets.