A study on the provability of life after death

I'm not an expert, but is it possible for a study along the lines of the following pseudo-paper prove whether or not life after death exists in a meaningful way?

Abstract

A study on the provability of life after death

Introduction

1. We are born into this world without memory of what was before life, and we do not spend our time lamenting about what we might have done before life as we know it started.

2. If life after death exists, and any memory of life before death does not survive death, life after death would be the same as life before death - ie, we would not spend time lamenting about what life before death might have been like, but rather just go on with whatever existence that may exist.

3. As such, if a soul that survives death exists, the existence of memory would be pivotal to whether we need to be concerned about life after death.

Nomenclature

4. By "memory" I mean all reference points that the soul may use to identify itself, toward the result of formulating what the self is. For most practical means, I construe this to be synonymous to the ability to remember, but do not at this stage want to preclude the possibility of there existing elements that contribute to the concept of self-identity outside the bounds of this ability.

5. By "soul" I mean a consciousness that is able to separate itself from other consciousnesses  beyond death.

6. For the soul to exist in a way that is meaningful to our current existence, either memory must exist, or something else that is able to pin-point our current existence must exist. Let me call this "Identity". To limit the scope of this study, the consideration of complex memories and complex Identities shall be omitted. That is to say, the concept of Identities and memories that merge or otherwise get transformed after death, shall at this stage be assumed not to exist.

7. By "surviving death", I refer to the immediate retainment of memory after an individual's death, as opposed to there being an instantaneous process of off-loading one's memory into another realm after death. If the latter were true, it would be possible to destroy a soul through the instantaneous destruction of the body, unless the nature of our existence prohibits such a process because of limitations in how we are able to access the mechanics of time.

Hypothesis

8. Therefore, I hypothesize that to prove that for life after death to exist in a meaningful way, we have two basis to prove: (1) whether or not memory survives death, and, (2) whether or not Identity can exist outside the flesh.

Methods

9. If memory can survive death, it should be possible to formulate a technique to transplant memory. And since we are interested in the immediate retainment of memory after death, there must exist a location to which memory continually being off-loaded to when one is living. Quantum entanglement is one possible method, but there may be other methods not yet discovered.

10. If Identity can exist outside the flesh, cross-transplating whole organs, including the brain, or portions of organs between two individuals could be done to verify if there is any correlation between Identity and the physical body.

NOTES

1. All religions just assume that the self/soul exists, and builds theories around that to reinforce that believe. Why don't religions explain more about whether the self/soul exists, since that is the basis on which all life-after-death theories stand?For me, I draw a line between the "meaningful" and "de-facto" self. Maybe the examples below sound childish but...
[de-facto self]
If we recycle a magazine into a toilet paper, it's still the same paper, but what the paper used to be would not be relevant to the toilet paper, since what the magazine was like is irrelevant to the toilet paper. In this case, the self may exist (same pulp that made the paper), but I wouldn't care about it since there's nothing I can do about it.
[meaningful self]
But if we recycle a magazine into a child's art project, it would mean a lot, because the child would use the magazine because of its colors and pictures. In this case, the nature of the magazine is brought into its after-life as an art project. If it's possible for science to establish anything about life after death, this would be the once that is worth studying....