Discussion thoughts about death

[bbye111]

i wish to end my life... but what scares me the most is what comes after. to be honest the thought of reincarnation scares me the most than turning into total nothingness. thinking of going through all this again. im hoping for an escape, but to be thrown back again? and in a worse condition of life? damn.

 

[jodes2]

Nah I don't believe in reincarnation at all, I'm sure we just turn into nothingness. Peaceful

 

[annointed_towers]

I know there's a heaven and a hell but nothing I could do or say would make anyone believe how I know

 

[bbye111]

Nah I don't believe in reincarnation at all, I'm sure we just turn into nothingness. Peaceful

how would you know its peaceful if you dont have the brain to feel such emotion?
i think when we die we wont be able to witness the peace:(. were just... gone

 

[jodes2]

how would you know its peaceful if you dont have the brain to feel such emotion?
i think when we die we wont be able to witness the peace:(. were just... gone

It's peaceful compared to life. Zero problems. No hassle, no regrets, no arguments, no discomfort. Just nothingness. More peaceful than sleeping, even.

 

[FuneralCry]

The thought of reincarnation does sound horrific to me, as of course being trapped in this world for all eternity is such a nightmarish thing to think about but to me it's just a fictional concept invented by people who were unable to accept the true meaningless and insignificant nature of existence, therefore I don't fear it. I very strongly believe that once we die we just cease to exist with not even the awareness that we are gone and this is absolute perfection to me, there is nothing more ideal and beautiful than freeing ourselves from something so useless and burdensome as existing. But anyway, there is simply no point to fearing death as it's inescapable, it's what we are destined for and all that continuing to exist is, is just delaying the inevitable.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I do know what you mean and it does worry me too... I'm not entirely convinced either way.

Still- I suppose the likelihood is- if it is in fact all true- the perception that is you at the moment will have gone. Most people don't remember their past lives. You may well have already lived 99 lives that were full of joy- it's just this one that turned out shit. You likely won't remember either way.

Personally, I think our soul/consciousness/memories are created in our brains. I'm not convinced they can survive once our brains are dead.

 

[ksp]

all logical conclusions lead to the fact that my current consciousness will be erased; in my mind, my death doesn't represent a void, or oblivion: TIME will stop; my awareness and perception will stop

but there is one more possibility:

in an infinite time, infinite universe, and infinite number of universe - my consciousness came into existence, and it might/will (?) exist again - this is very terrifying possibility and likelihood; this consciousness will not have a notion of my previous parents, friends, spouse, children, etc.

continuity of my previous experiences is not possible - proven by fact i can't remember anything from before; so my consciousness will exist again, and again i will have to suffer this life

my current awareness will be on pause: one hour after my death, one year, one trillion years - irrelevant
i will have an infinite series of existences, all of them connected by continuous suffering

now that i think about it, it's not very comforting…

 

[LittleJem]

I like to think we get one happy life as a dog or cat between human lives….

I've also been scared of reincarnation but now I just hope it doesn't happen and I've been wanting to die for so long that I don't care.

 

[Jarni]

all logical conclusions lead to the fact that my current consciousness will be erased; in my mind, my death doesn't represent a void, or oblivion: TIME will stop; my awareness and perception will stop

but there is one option:

in an infinite time, infinite universe, and infinite number of universe - my consciousness came into existence, and it might/will (?) exist again - this is very terrifying possibility and likelihood; this consciousness will not have a notion of my previous parents, friends, spouse, children, etc.

continuity of my previous experiences is not possible - proven by fact i can't remember anything from before; so my consciousness will exist again, and again i will have to suffer this life

my current awareness will be on pause: one hour after my death, one year, one trillion years - irrelevant
i will have an infinite series of existences, all of them connected by continuous suffering

now that i think about it, it's not very comforting…

So can't wait for the Sun to explode and there's nothing left to reincarnate :-)