I feel bad when I realize I won't know when I'm dead

[BrokenByTheSystem]

I have this contradictory feeling, we desire death so much but in the end, there's no way to know if we're dead. Because after death very likely consciousness will cease.

I wish I could look to my death and feel just one last time: It's done, I'm free from this hell of existence, It's finally over.

But nothing will happen. It's just the eternal void, no good or bad feeling anymore.

 

[GodChallengesMe]

How do you know that there's nothing after you die? The only way to know is to die, anything else is speculation.

 

[NihilDoll]

The way i always looked at it: Sleep isn't all that different, really.
You lay down, then there's nothing until you wake up.
You just skip the waking up bit. So if sleep doesn't worry you, why should the deeper sleep? :D

 

[wannabeangel]

The way i always looked at it: Sleep isn't all that different, really.
You lay down, then there's nothing until you wake up.
You just skip the waking up bit. So if sleep doesn't worry you, why should the deeper sleep? :D

this is how i look at it too in the case my spiritual beliefs are wrong, as both are equally comforting. i always get sad from waking up after sleeping without dreams, that break of nothingness is soothing and i just wish it was longer

 

[GodChallengesMe]

The way i always looked at it: Sleep isn't all that different, really.
You lay down, then there's nothing until you wake up.
You just skip the waking up bit. So if sleep doesn't worry you, why should the deeper sleep? :D

Yes, it's the same in a way that when you get into the bed tired and fall asleep, you accept the fact that you will be unaware while being asleep but it doesn't bother you because falling asleep when tired is wanted by the body and it brings comfort. There's also the fact that you know when you wake up, you will continue into this specific life and continuity won't be broken, i.e. your accomplishments and everything you are in general won't disappear with the sleep. Here's where death is different because you know that when you die, you won't experience the same awakening you do when you wake up from sleep.

Although eons might pass and from your POV you awake momentarily, nobody knows where and how you awake after the death. It might be quantum immortality and you might awake in the same life, in the same age and circumstances, but with minor tweaks for your awakening to be possible, it might be complete beginning and you reborn into the same body with different life path or it might be reincarnation into another body. I don't think that there's nothing after death from the first person POV when you die and it might be either momentary transition or you might remain here for a while as a spectator (this might be your choice whether you will remain here for a while though).

I lean towards the idea that some people might choose to remain some time here as spectators or it might be default for all people, who knows. The reason I think this is the case because I had the unexplained, very profound hints for that and my dog was involved in one case which was the most obvious case from the two cases I had. The dog was feeling my father around on the specific day following his death. She didn't saw him dead so she was not aware that he was died. She loved my father a lot and that's why I think he came to see her on that specific day and the dog also saw him or strongly felt his presence, although she was behaving oddly, couldn't comprehend what was happening perhaps, but she wasn't scared, just curious and alert.