User blog comment:HELO/I Love You, Ashley--Now Stop Punishing Me for It/@comment-5044104-20120422215529/@comment-4933332-20120501101605

Shepard not remembering it is not the same thing as him saying there is no afterlife.

Even an atheist like me would never used that as 'evidence' that there is no afterlife. In a hypothetical scenario that the afterlife really does exist, no one knows the rules governing it or how it works so we can't conclude anyway. (Speculation for everyone here) If people believe in the existence of a soul as something separate to the body and the brain (which is part of the body) is the one that stores memory, then maybe there's no way for a person to remember the afterlife even if they are there.

Now I don't believe in an afterlife nor separation of a soul and body but the idea of Shepard not remembering doesn't prove anything. It's just mean that his experience can't contribute to the debate either way of whether there is an afterlife or not.