Time and space do not exist within it, or without. The senses of touch, taste, and smell are also absent. Its duration occurs only when the mind is active. Or what we might call a dream. In death, life is but a dream.
People of faith depend on the grace of higher powers for salvation from death.
For them, essays like this one are an irrelevance. More power to them. They will need it. For others, self determination is taken to be more direct. It is not possible to say which is better, pure faith versus directed action, only which is more appealing to the individual.