The story is just a step. If you take it to the next level; there is no little speech "after" a life. There is no "after" or "before" there is only one moment (now), and only one humanity (percieved as "us"), and only one energy (everything) and it is now, and it is us, and it is everything. And...
The thing percieved as "I" is the things perceived as "everyone" and I would take it so far as to say the place/time/thing that is perceived as "everything"
Are you under the impression that each individual who died in concentration camps didn't have their own life. That each person's view isn't different from the next? That each person is the same just because they went through the same thing? We (the unit) will be poor billions of more times then...
You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better...
Emotions help humans survive. (fear of a preditor for example, love keeps people together which also helps us survive)
Time is an illusion.
Matter is like the rest of energy in the universe, just slow moving.
As for a reason there is energy... Well firstly making up some story about a...
This is the unconscious mind. You don't have to think about your heart beating, or digestion in order to do it, it happens without the part of the brain that thinks to tell the body to.
And actually the same part of the brain, the part that we can't control, is DOING the act of consciousness...
Quantum physics: the measurement problem.
An atom (thus all atoms and energy in the universe) is spread out over the entire universe until a conscious observe measures (or experiences) it.
Thus the universe requires intelligence in order to exist in a logical, dualist, fuctioning fashion.