When we depart? is death simply a veil to another place.

[soul2realm]

I used to think death meant simply the end apart from religious connotations. But after going through so many NDE videos on youtube and other written spiritual content, I am conflicted. I mean I do believe there is a higher power and if they exist there must be some reason we were sent or born in this world. And then we die whatever may be the way it happens.
I mean I do believe in the Karma theory and have gone through several instances in my life that kind of proves its validity. But what lies behind the final curtain, is a mystery that both entices and sometimes scares me.
On a personal note, I would never want a simple nothingness or sent back via rebirth. I would sure like to meet my loving mom who left a few years before and also would want to meet my soulmate.
What are your views?

 

[Macedonian1987]

I am religious and I have my own way of believing in God. This belief is based on reading countless of NDE's during the last 10 years and i do believe that there is indeed life after death. How will this life look like... I cannot say for sure.

 

[badatparties]

No one knows what's going on right now, let alone what will happen after death. We can't even define what consciousness even is.

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

I think it's almost certainly nothing, like before you were born. I have been Christian before so I have residual fear of judgment and hell but that's nonsense. What I really fear is repetition, that this whole thing happens over and over. To make the same mistakes and feel the same shame every cosmic cycle, that would be true horror.

 

[badatparties]

I think it's almost certainly nothing, like before you were born. I have been Christian before so I have residual fear of judgment and hell but that's nonsense. What I really fear is repetition, that this whole thing happens over and over. To make the same mistakes and feel the same shame every cosmic cycle, that would be true horror.

You wouldn't keep your memories, so it would be a new experience each time fortunately. Not that there's evidence for any cosmic cycles of any kind.

 

[OzymandiAsh]

I used to think death meant simply the end apart from religious connotations. But after going through so many NDE videos on youtube and other written spiritual content, I am conflicted. I mean I do believe there is a higher power and if they exist there must be some reason we were sent or born in this world. And then we die whatever may be the way it happens.
I mean I do believe in the Karma theory and have gone through several instances in my life that kind of proves its validity. But what lies behind the final curtain, is a mystery that both entices and sometimes scares me.
On a personal note, I would never want a simple nothingness or sent back via rebirth. I would sure like to meet my loving mom who left a few years before and also would want to meet my soulmate.
What are your views?

My views are similar to yours, but I have no fear at all of what comes immediately after death. I think there are much better realms and most of us ultimately return to them, at least for a while. Maybe there is even a Garden, or some other kind of Heaven/Home. I am afraid of reincarnating back here after that, but I think that is in God's hands, and I don't necessarily believe that all suicides suffer reincarnation. I think pretty much everyone returns to God, a good God (despite our temporary human suffering making it seem like God could be a scary or unloving figure).

 

[soul2realm]

I am religious and I have my own way of believing in God. This belief is based on reading countless of NDE's during the last 10 years and i do believe that there is indeed life after death. How will this life look like... I cannot say for sure.

I believe that as well only don't want to be disappointed so the doubt arises.

My views are similar to yours, but I have no fear at all of what comes immediately after death. I think there are much better realms and most of us ultimately return to them, at least for a while. Maybe there is even a Garden, or some other kind of Heaven/Home. I am afraid of reincarnating back here, but I think that is in God's hands, and I don't necessarily believe that all suicides suffer reincarnation.

True. I am hoping for that as well. Just hoping death comes quickly.

 

[OzymandiAsh]

I honestly think what comes immediately after death is probably better than our tiny human brains can even imagine.

But that's just me. I have a complex system of beliefs that is very hard to explain, it is drawn from psychedelic and other experiences.

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

You wouldn't keep your memories

That's a point. Worst case scenario, it's the same one bad life I already have. Also I've already done it infinity times.

 

[Eternal Pessimist]

I certainly hope there's nothing, but I guess you can never know for sure.

 

[IdentityDoe]

I like to think of it like before you were born, you can't remember anything about that state. It'll probably be just like going to sleep and not having a dream, just pitch black forever.

 

[esoteric2026]

I don't know. I used to believe that your body dissipates to energy and eventually just propagates to universe, or something like that. Nowadays, I believe in nothing, that it would be just like before you were born, i.e. nothing. Afterlife and all that stuff is pure nonsense to me.

 

[Sadbanana]

The experience that you are conciously having right now as a person within a world will be completely deconstructed. I don't know if there still will be some sort of experience, but structures like space, time and any sort of self will be lost. It might be anihilation or it might be begging of something much cooler than being a limited human mind.

 

[soul2realm]

The experience that you are conciously having right now as a person within a world will be completely deconstructed. I don't know if there still will be some sort of experience, but structures like space, time and any sort of self will be lost. It might be anihilation or it might be begging of something much cooler than being a limited human mind.

I get it. But now I think about it, it's the transitioning that is haunting me.

 

[Sadbanana]

I get it. But now I think about it, it's the transitioning that is haunting me.

I feel the same. I have had some experiences with psychadelics, when I felt my ego falling apart it was the most intense and visceral fear I have ever experienced. You just can't know if you are the one who survives or the one who dies, until you go through it.

 

[unluckysadness]

I think we'll return at home (our real home - as most mediums say). I have a huge interest about NDE stories and I trust most of them. So for me death is the real life. But maybe I'm just influenced by these stories. I think reincarnation is real and I believe in karma / transgenerational too. The more time passes, the less afraid I am about death. I'm afraid about life, suffering, loss, but death is something comforting to me. I believe in the eternity of the soul. Some mediums say we choose our reincarnation before our birth but I have serious doubts about this theory.

I'm sure about one thing : hell does not exist and afterlife cannot be worse than incarnated life.

 

[soul2realm]

I feel the same. I have had some experiences with psychadelics, when I felt my ego falling apart it was the most intense and visceral fear I have ever experienced. You just can't know if you are the one who survives or the one who dies, until you go through it.

Absolutely. There is a classic movie- Somewhere in time. At the end the actor dies and his transitioning is so peaceful just like they explain in NDEs. He sees his body from top and then transitions to his sweetheart in a realm depicted as heaven where she takes his hand. Oh if only we knew..

I think we'll return at home (our real home - as most mediums say). I have a huge interest about NDE stories and I trust most of them. So for me death is the real life. But maybe I'm just influenced by these stories. I think reincarnation is real and I believe in karma / transgenerational too. The more time passes, the less afraid I am about death. I'm afraid about life, suffering, loss, but death is something comforting to me.

Agreed. My sphere of influence in the matter is also to a great extent by these stories and videos by medians.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

I think 1 micro second after my brain dies it will be Non-Existence forever .

consciousness is a simulation created only by my brain. brain is working . then brain is not working and the simulation can't run ever again as it's only in my brain.

i'm glad i'll cease to exist forever, eternal Non-Existence because Permanent Non-existence is the only guarantee of me never suffering a trillion times worse than the worst i can imagine. as long as i live there is always that possibility

just a few reasons why

to keep living for trillions of years a human would have to be different from everything in the universe because everything is going to disorder because of the law of Entropy ie everything decays everything dies even the universe will die in Heat Death.. everything requires a constant power source like food , battery , gas , electricity , sunlight etc.

what is a human? is a human different from other animals ? not imo.

for example every brain cell of a human and of a fly and of a mouse and the first cell have the exact same fundamental machines that make the cell work . DNA , ATP , RNA, the genetic code ,ribosomes many others. without anyone of these the cell wouldn;'t function . the structure of DNA is the same double helix in all those cells, same base pairs, same genetic code . a cell is just a factory for replicating itself or other cells and DNA.

the ancestor of human is a single celled machine

how can the descendant be different? can't imo.

is evolution true? massive evidence from multiple sciences that cros confirm life is cells and evolution is true.

unless magically something installed a soul somewhere along the line in evolution . but there is no evidence of that nor of anything relating to any soul or afterlife. where would it insall it every ameoba, bacteria, a fish, a fly, a mouse , a monkey?

so i'm sure a human doesn't have a soul or any afterlife

All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.

Scientists have pushed back LUCA’s origin by hundreds of millions of years.

www.popularmechanics.com

 

[FuneralCry]

Non-existence is all I believe in and is all I hope for, all I want is permanent peace from the suffering, cruelty and torture of existing, I'll always see it as the most terrible mistake to suffer in this existence.

All that this existence does is just cause harm and suffering with no limit as to how much one can be tortured with existing beings in agony every second, it truly is an abomination to exist which is why non-existence is all I hope for, only non-existence could ever be positive for me, I just want to be permanently free from the evil of existing, the existence of life truly is the most terrible devastating tragedy to me, I wish I could just erase this existence so it's like I never suffered at all.

 

[catsalvation]

I think about it a lot. Ok, noone truly knows. I certainly hope that I (my personality, who suffers) will cease to exist... I also hope that the gnostics are wrong, and the Earth is not a soul trap where we are locked forever. And between the 2 there are endless possibilities...