Discussion What do you believe happens when you die?

[Beside You In Time.]

Who are you to decide who should be or not be a member here? This is a PRO CHOICE forum, which means, we support those who want to live and those who want to die and everything inbetween. If you cant handle that, I suggest you leave.

Because this forum is crawling with people that are "pro-life" political activists that seem to think that everything in everyone's lives can be resolved with their god delusional fueled prayer.

 

[Pan]

Completely agree with this

I am not a pro lifer; women should be able to do with their bodies whatever they wish.

Who are you to decide who should be or not be a member here? This is a PRO CHOICE forum, which means, we support those who want to live and those who want to die and everything inbetween. If you cant handle that, I suggest you leave.

No, inwon't Leave, but. Will take a break. Clearly, you are in a bad mood and eager to fight. I would n't do t. Period.
I am a novice regarding this; perhaps I am responding to the wrong person.

 

[Fml]

I am not a pro lifer; women should be able to do with their bodies whateverno

Oh no I didn't mean I was agreeing on whether you're a pro lifer or not, I was agreeing with their opinion of what happens after death!

 

[Pan]

It seems that I am responding to the wrong person. Admittedly, much of this is foreign to me;i'm Sorry. This post was'nt meant for you. I a unreservedly pro choice. Men get off and then take off. This is why u.s. society is breaking down; all the fathers are gone.

 

[999888]

Nothing.

 

[Pan]

I personally don"t want a funeral. No words, no opulent language. Let my body be cremated with my ashes scattered to the four winds. Furthermore, to be waked seems obscene to me.

 

[Pan]

Nothing is wrong with that, Pan! SK wrote that he was referring to Lastuser's post.

Sorry about that; I am a newbie when it comes to much of this, and sometimes lose track as to source of postings. I am sure sk meant no offense.

 

[underthesea]

Elon Musk may be right and life is a simulation, which would explain Fermi Paradox. Maybe there is some super intelligent nerdy kid coding the heck out of our lives for kicks. If that turns out to be true, I sure hope next go around this coder gives me specs with some very super cool abilities, like maybe making me a million times smarter than Musk, Einstein and Hawking combined. Heck, why not?

 

[HelpPlease]

DMT experiences point to something else happening

 

[a.h]

I don't know what happens when we die, I don't think anyone can know. All religions say different things but I don't believe any one religion to be true. Indeed a Christian already posted on this thread telling people they will go to one of two places, Heaven or Hell. What is funny, is the fact that, that Christian would likely be a Muslim had he been born and raised in the Middle East or a Buddhist if he were born in Asia. I think, if any one religion were true above the other, there'd be certainty, no God would leave it to chance, speculation, theory and faith. I believe all religions hold fragments of truth but none hold the ultimate truth.

I am a deeply spiritual person that does not adhere to any one religion, I believe in my heart, in the fibre of my essence, that there is something more to this life, I believe we go on. I believe the universe is one, experiencing itself, I believe everything, everyone is God, you are God, I am God, we are all incarnations of the universe experiencing itself and this cycle will go on and on.

They are just my personal views and opinions though and I would be the first to hold my hands up and admit that I could be very wrong. Even if we die and there is nothingness, even if this reality is exactly the way scientists believe and think it is, I'm cool with that. I think the human mind struggles to comprehend not being consciousness.

Do you remember anything before you were born?
No, of course not.

Do you have any recollection of being fearful, scared or sad because you don't exist?
No, of course not.

There is nothing to fear and if we all just ceased to exist once we die, that's fine by me. I think as humans we want to reach out and hold onto something that brings us comfort, we look for things that bring us peace, knowing and understanding.

I read this little piece not long ago, even if we ceased to exist and we go off what science knows right now and that there is nothing after death, I can find comfort in this and I hope you can too:

I believe mostly that there is afterlife the way most people with nde describe it and God, higher beings and some master plan and we come here to learn, some from suffering, and all end up in same place.
I believe that because I had nde and know some of it to be true (I didn't ask questions but understood everything as connected as essentially good in Universe).
It would be sad if our brains could make us completely happy and feel serene, peacefull and love and give us better senses and focus but only could give us that when our system shuts down.
Maybe so many nde's are given that so people wouldn't be afraid of death and afterlife anymore.

I can't stop thinking that the afterlife is our real life and this life is like a dream. I became unconscious when arriving to hospital and then I woke up, rised up and felt pure bliss. I felt as life on earth was just a dream and I remembered that this is my true essence of pure love, and peace with nothing negative and with super senses, focus and abilities. I felt as everything was connected and essentially good. I remembered I belonged there and I was so happy to go home. I wasn't told it wasn't my time yet etc. by anyone. I didn't feel or got any knowledge that life on earth mattered.

That felt so much real than life ever have felt. I also had other experience later that made me believe more of afterlife.

Even if none of it was real to me and billions of others (DMT creates similar feelings) and nothingness comes after physical death (maybe with possible reincarnation) then I don't see anything bad in that.
I dream of nothingness often too and if I reincarnated one day then I would forget everything before that.

Elon Musk may be right and life is a simulation, which would explain Fermi Paradox. Maybe there is some super intelligent nerdy kid coding the heck out of our lives for kicks. If that turns out to be true, I sure hope next go around this coder gives me specs with some very super cool abilities, like maybe making me a million times smarter than Musk, Einstein and Hawking combined. Heck, why not?

I felt like waking up from dream after my system shutted down after an accident. I was so happy I woke up since everything was pure bliss and I could do anything. ;)

 

[Emily123]

Nothing

 

[heheb27595]

Nothing

The simpler the better, lol.

What I think after it is purely based about what I we had before.
Cannot remember before being born.
I was born in a very isolated city in North Canada.
After the first year, my parents moved out down there in south, never went back there even if I had uncles.
So it was totally random, I had no special mission, purely luck.

 

[Johanna94]

I believe death is just like when one is unconscious; there's just "nothingness" and one doesn't suffer anymore.

 

[Despondent]

I like to think thay there's an afterlife but I'm convinced it's nothing. Idk if it's more comforting or "scary" to me that once you're gone, you don't even see nothing. It's NOTHING. If that makes sense lol

 

[PeaceisallIwishfor]

I used to believe in an afterlife, but I feel realistically we are just sparks of energy powering this human body and brain, when the body and brain dies then our energy is recycled back into the universe, but we won't be aware of where we go next or how we got there, just like we aren't aware of how we got into this body. I feel the universe is quite sparratic and random. I feel NDEs are just the brain trying to recreate something to experience, then once it's dead, it's dead, and we don't exist anymore. Think about when a baby is born and dies at birth? It hasn't experienced or collected memories, or developed a sense of self or anything, it just dies and ceases to exist. The only place it exists or we will exist is an idea or concept in the minds of others.

 

[reapandsow918]

Unconsciousness, we aren't aware of anything not even time.

 

[BPD Barbie]

I want to believe there is something more after dying, be it another life, heaven, hell, just something because it makes the idea of dying a little easier to handle. The thought of nothingness doesn't put me off enough to stop me, but it adds a bit more of a fear factor. I guess because nobodies ever died and lived the tell the tale so it's something we can only speculate on

 

[HereToday]

I never believed in God or an afterlife. This planet is too fucked up for there to be a god imo. Or there is but he's not all powerful. Anyway, I think death is just like being asleep. You're not aware of anything. The same way you weren't aware of anything before you were born. Frankly the idea of an afterlife existing is scarier to me than the alternative. What if the afterlife sucks? What if we reincarnate into this shitty planet forever and ever? That's my idea of hell. No thanks

 

[mattwitt]

I believe that all of my earthly problems will go away and the world will go on just fine without me as if I wasn't even born.

 

[LonelyHopelessDude]

I don't have a clear believe on something, but I have multiple theory based on the knowledge I have and some personal experiences.

1) Non conscious nothingness : You will just die without feeling anything, without even knowing you are death.
Comparable with deep sleep, it's just that you will never wake up, you don't even think feel or anything.
My extension to this theory, is that with a far future a technology could be develop to make brains fonction again with all the memory saved, thus making someone "coming back" and "waking up". It can be very unlikely but still hypothetically possible.

2) Conscious nothingness : Same as the 1st one but in this case you will be conscious about it maybe with or without your memory during your life-time.
In complete darkness, without feeling your body, without seeing but still with the ability of thinking.
This would be one of the worse case scenario of Afterlife. Being conscious in nothingness for eternity or an unknown period of time would be horrible.

3) "Lucid Dream" : When we die, our conscious will "extend" (making 0,0001 second pass as 1 Trillion year for EX) or still exist somewhere , making us the ability to live in a dream in a conscious way, knowing that we are dreaming or probably death.
(i based this theory on NDE and a personal dream I had )

4) Religious stuff : Heaven for the goods and Hell for the baddies, very basic but still a possibility.
We don't clearly know how everything was created, if there is a God or not, we just don't know.
In that way, Hell for eternity would definitely be worse than everything there is in the world (if it exist).
Suffering an indescribable pain for eternity is just unimaginable, nobody would like to experience that.

5) Reincarnation : You know the thing, being reincarnated on earth as an animal, or another human.
My extension to that is reincarnation on a another planet/galaxy/universe (multiverse) with all of our souvenirs of the life we just lived, in a continuity.
It would be an interesting experience, I imagine a new world somewhere in the galaxy but all the people living there, have lived on earth before and now live in this other world that would be similar to Earth in a certain way.
Or the same extension but without knowing about our precedent life, but that wouldn't make that much sense if we are reincarnated without knowing we've had a life before, I don't think a God would create this process in this way.

 

[Nemeshisu]

I personally don't believe most religious stuff. I don't believe in any hell or heaven or anything. Despite how great beings humans are, how much talented they are and how many magnificient things they had created, I wouldn't really understand why God would give us privilege of experiencing afterlife while other life forms wouldn't get this opportunity. I don't understand how God would give soul only for humans. We are pretty much same like every other animal except that we have more evolved mind. I'd say we are even kind of connected with every other life form on Earth. After all we all evolved from the same one cell.

So my observation suggest that I was ,,dead before i was born". So that would leave just two options. Either 1) I didn't exist before I was born 2) I existed before I was born but I don't remember my previous existence. I think when I die it will be just going back to how things used to be. So:

1) I would simply cease to exist. I would fade out into nothingness. My conciousness would be dead, so it doesn't matter.

2)
A) There would be some form of afterlife but I am convinced that I wouldn't remember my existence in this world as conciousness of my soul doesn't seem to work same as conciousness of my mind. I can only hope that afterlife will be better than my current life. Or....
B) There would be reincarnation, but I am not sure how it would work. Maybe I will get reborn as some animal. Maybe even as some plant. I don't really know. I wouldn't remember my current life as I don't remember any life before that so I don't feel that matters aswell.

I don't have a clear believe on something, but I have multiple theory based on the knowledge I have and some personal experiences.

1) Non conscious nothingness : You will just die without feeling anything, without even knowing you are death.
Comparable with deep sleep, it's just that you will never wake up, you don't even think feel or anything.
My extension to this theory, is that with a far future a technology could be develop to make brains fonction again with all the memory saved, thus making someone "coming back" and "waking up". It can be very unlikely but still hypothetically possible.

2) Conscious nothingness : Same as the 1st one but in this case you will be conscious about it maybe with or without your memory during your life-time.
In complete darkness, without feeling your body, without seeing but still with the ability of thinking.
This would be one of the worse case scenario of Afterlife. Being conscious in nothingness for eternity or an unknown period of time would be horrible.

3) "Lucid Dream" : When we die, our conscious will "extend" (making 0,0001 second pass as 1 Trillion year for EX) or still exist somewhere , making us the ability to live in a dream in a conscious way, knowing that we are dreaming or probably death.
(i based this theory on NDE and a personal dream I had )

4) Religious stuff : Heaven for the goods and Hell for the baddies, very basic but still a possibility.
We don't clearly know how everything was created, if there is a God or not, we just don't know.
In that way, Hell for eternity would definitely be worse than everything there is in the world (if it exist).
Suffering an indescribable pain for eternity is just unimaginable, nobody would like to experience that.

5) Reincarnation : You know the thing, being reincarnated on earth as an animal, or another human.
My extension to that is reincarnation on a another planet/galaxy/universe (multiverse) with all of our souvenirs of the life we just lived, in a continuity.
It would be an interesting experience, I imagine a new world somewhere in the galaxy but all the people living there, have lived on earth before and now live in this other world that would be similar to Earth in a certain way.
Or the same extension but without knowing about our precedent life, but that wouldn't make that much sense if we are reincarnated without knowing we've had a life before, I don't think a God would create this process in this way.

Wow..Conscious nothingness sure does sound terrific. That would be worst torture I could ever imagine. Sure, Hell does sound bad with all eternal punishment but some may get used to it after few million years.

 

[ARW3N]

Nothing happens after we die or is there any solid evidence that something happens after we die?

 

[Flau]

I honestly started believing that after I die there won't be nothingness. A soul comes from something, the only "emptiness" we know about is the vacuum. And yet it's still not correct.
Probably some sort of a bad trip, yet all you will be sensing is an unlimited amount of fears and hurtful emotions that you've gone through.

 

[Epsilon0]

This is all speculative, of course, but I am inclined to believe consciousness arises from the synapses in our brain.

Once the body dies, so do the neurons, and with them our consciouness.

If this theory is correct, then nothing happens to us after death. We just... "poof"... as someone aptly described it in one of the previous posts.

 

[Fly🦋]

i think maybe it's the end. i live in a christian house hold and was always told we will either go to heaven or hell. But my guess is that were already in hell. my guess is there is no demons because we are the demons. That Satan is watching us right now. I think we already lived are lives and because we were bad we were sent here to be tortured. I'm not sure but my wish is that we go far away from earth with the stars and sleep with the stars forever. Where we can be at peace and not judged.