Sometimes there is despair. Is life worth no struggle?

Life is a biological entity with limited lifespan and terminates when there is progressive deterioration of its mental subsystems beyond certain arbitrarily defined points.

No soul. No life after death. No judgment day.

A purely physical explanation despite our longing for something more enduring. Is there reason for despair? Yes, may be. Is life worth no struggle? Why we rat race when there is nothing permanent?

Because... you need to struggle to stay happy even in this impermanence. "Now" is everything.

May be we should be happy with this... Whatever you do is settled in not more than a hundred and ten years from now. Lets have no regrets to brood for. No guilty feeling to launder in the church.

For those die hard life-after-death wishers ... wait a few more decades and we might just be able to download your minds and memories into something less carbon based and you might live longer in a cyberworld like in the 'matrix' or may be like the 'lawn mover man'...