Exactly. No amount of wishful thinking will create an afterlife for you. You are your brain. When your brain dies, so do your personality, your memory, your emotions, your beliefs, your experiences, etc. There is no soul in you which will magically transfer the contents of your brain to some magical fantasy camp in the sky.

This is not just some entry test to see if you can get past the bouncer at the pearly gates. This is real life. All you can do is live it and leave it. So live it to the fullest while you have it. People who believe in the afterlife have an expectation that their experience will last forever, which makes them forget just how precious our time is on this planet. After all, a few decades is but a drop of water compared to the incomprehensibly vast oceans of time you will spend in the "afterlife". It makes them indifferent to suffering and oppression at times. I will suffer injustice now, they reason, because God will bring me justice in the end and I will live in blissful happiness forever. Religion is a tyrant's best friend.