Given the Principle of Parsimony, Plato's Theory of Forms at least seems like the most likely afterlife(minus reincarnation because morality is objective but relative because symmetry always stays the same while risks change). The perishable no longer perishes after having perished. In other words, the perishable becomes the imperishable. If time is an illusion then all that recognizes real reality are abstract ideas. So when living beings deceased they become abstract ideas.
No, I see gross misunderstandings here.
Plato's forms exist independently from the instantiations of the forms. They exist even "before" the instantiation, so to say. So it is not afterlife at all, and living beings do not "become" ideas.
Furthermore, it is not possible to exclude reincarnation from Plato's concept. There is only a transitional afterlife in Plato's view, not an eternal paradise as in Christianity or Islam. The cycle of being reborn goes on and on.
So the "afterlife", in Plato's sense, is, after a transitional phase, basically the next life. The realm of human beings and god/gods is clearly separated. Human beings never come to a paradise to live there as saintly souls with god for eternity as it is the idea in Christianity.
The idea of a paradisical "afterlife" existed in the Egyptian and Greek traditional religious views, but not in Plato's philosophical concept of a cycle of rebirths.
In the question, the theory of forms is modified based on what is the most simple and maybe evident explanation for the afterlife.
Plato's Theory of Forms is just a philosophical concept that implicates the nature of soul & it’s existence beyond the physical realm. This theory as an afterlife concept is debatable & also depends on individuals perspective and explanation of parsimony.
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