We spent a good deal of time, of life, paying attention to qualia, and so we know that does reveal itself to us when we need it.
We have learned to put some faith in qualia, and so, to paraphrase the philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, rather than be skeptical about the afterlife, would it not be a better bet to live our life as it there is something after life?
“The song is ended but the melody lingers on” – and so while the body decays, the mind lives on, and it is our conscious ritualing that determines how long.