[ WP ] It is confirmed once and for all that the afterlife does not exist . How does humanity react ?

Charlie sat at his chair, endlessly scratching at his beard, just staring at the monitor. He had been sitting there for hours, scratching away. While Charlie was a weird guy and I had known him for many years; this was especially weird. 
 
 `` Dude, what are you doing?'' Nothing. Just scratch, scratch, scratch. 
 
 `` Charlie, answer me you dickweed!'' That, having failed, moved me to try more drastic measures. 
 
 `` Oy!'' I yelled, throwing my empty waste bin at his back. 
 
 `` What?'' he whispered. 
 
 `` The hell are you doing?'' 
 
 `` They figured it out. I do n't know how, but they did it. I've been sitting here just trying to figure out how, but they did it.'' Charlie stared at his screen. 
 
 `` Figured what out?'' Charlie was never this obtuse. 
 
 `` It, man. You know? Like -- the *it*.'' Charlie had lost his mind. I stood up out of my chair and approached him from behind. 
 
 `` Dude, what are you on about?'' 
 
 `` The fucking afterlife man! God, Satan, Buddha, reincarnation, it's all bullshit!'' Charlie clearly had gone more mental than the sun setting in the east. `` They really did it, somehow. They figured it out using this... this machine or something. Pretty messed up if you ask me, but they took this guy, you know? Just some random dude -- happened he was dying of cancer and they just sort of waited til the end, then surrounded him with these accelerated particles, looking for any perturbations out of the ordinary when he died. I do n't know exactly how it works, but after a few years analyzing the data. They knew.'' 
 
 Maybe Charlie was n't so crazy, but there had to be an explanation. 
 
 `` For real, man?'' I asked. `` There... I mean... what...'' I must have been losing my mind for even entertaining the idea that this experiment was even possible. `` Let me see that article.'' 
 
 I read it. And, it just made sense. The uncertainties all lined up, the hyperdimensional pathways created by the particles was all summed up neatly, and there it was. 
 
 `` Dude.'' Was about the extent of my vocabulary after being thoroughly mind-fucked. 
 
 `` Yeah man. Dude.'' 
 
 `` So, what now?'' I felt like this was big news. `` Should we see what the rest of the world is doing?'' 
 
 `` Probably should.'' 
 
 `` Check out the Vatican. The pope has to make an announcement or something.'' I thought that was the best place to start, him being the voice of God... well nobody now, but still. 
 
 `` Seems like he offed himself.'' Not too horribly surprising. 
 
 `` Probably a good idea,'' I thought aloud. 
 
 `` Yeah. Israel?'' 
 
 `` Sure.'' Probably was bad. 
 
 `` They set off their nukes.'' Charlie said emptily. 
 
 `` Where?'' 
 
 A flash of light lit up the night sky outside, causing us to shield our eyes. 
 
 `` Oh...''
