Are you scared of what comes after death?

[003]

Just curious. Me personally, not so much scared of dying per se. Just terrified about what comes after. The fact we truly have no idea of what comes after terrifies me.

 

[uglyugly]

I personally am not afraid. I don't believe in a god or an afterlife. On my good days, I might believe in reincarnation but I have pretty much given up on the idea. Of course I'm not suggesting anyone else should think like me.

The way I look at it is nothing could be worse than the hell I am already in living in this world.

 

[Oceano]

a little yes, but sooner or later we will have to face death in any case. so why worry too much?
my worst fear is going back.

 

[FuneralCry]

No certainly not, in fact death is all that comforts me as I believe it to simply be nothingness where I cannot suffer anymore and all is forgotten about for me, in my case I only wish to be unconscious for all eternity and I'd be so relieved to finally be at peace from this cruel, torturous existence that just brought me so much pain. What I fear is suffering in this existence, it terrifies me how one can suffer for so long with no limit as to how unbearable the agony of existing can get, in my case I only wish to never exist again, I find existing to be deeply undesirable in every way.

 

[Jon Arbuckle]

Just curious. Me personally, not so much scared of dying per se. Just terrified about what comes after. The fact we truly have no idea of what comes after terrifies me.

I used to, but not anymore. I don't believe in an afterlife, so I'll be incapable of being happy or unhappy about the situation

 

[maniac116]

Just curious. Me personally, not so much scared of dying per se. Just terrified about what comes after. The fact we truly have no idea of what comes after terrifies me.

I wonder at times & it scares me sometimes.

 

[Danby]

A little bit, yes. I think of Hamlet's soliloquy: But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

 

[Hotsackage]

Not particularly, everything is natural in the scheme of the universe, well most things

 

[Leopard2023]

It would scare me the thought of going to hell

 

[ThisIsMe1357]

Well, whatever is there is meant to be there for everyone at one point, so that alone kind of proofs to me that it cannot be anything bad or anything full of suffering or torture, otherwise what would be the point of life...to end in pain which cannot be avoided no matter what a person does? That would not make any sense.

And yes, I believe there is the same thing for everyone, regardless of what it is.

 

[suicidaltransgirl]

Yes, it does scare me. What if death only amplifies and continues the suffering I'm facing while alive, but forever? What if I get reincarnated in an even worse situation?

 

[MAKE IT STOP!]

Yes, it does scare me. What if death only amplifies and continues the suffering I'm facing while alive, but forever? What if I get reincarnated in an even worse situation?

that's what i fear too. i'm scared my next life will be even worse, which is why i haven't done it yet.

 

[ThatStateOfMind]

Just curious. Me personally, not so much scared of dying per se. Just terrified about what comes after. The fact we truly have no idea of what comes after terrifies me.

No, not really. At this point, I don't feel like anything could be worse than this, even though I know that's untrue, it could be worse. I guess I am somewhat afraid, now that I type that, but I also push through for the hope of the future and my girlfriend.

 

[Faxanadu]

If there is nothing after death, then I have nothing to be afraid of.

If there's anything after death, God, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, I don't think I've been so mean as to deserve Hell: I think I'd probably end up in Purgatory.

If reincarnation exists, well, if it's up to me, I don't think I'm gonna want to reincarnate for a long time.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

I'm not afraid of Death. After Death is non-existence forever.
To me my Death is the best thing that could happen to me by a trillion times all my problems solved instantly and forever, all threats eliminated , no chance ever of any pain problems suffering bad memories, boredom, diseases , old age and 1000 other horrible things in this hell called life ever threatening me again: how how is that something to not devoutly wish for as Shakespeare intimated?

Everywhere people say that "we don't know what is after Death" ,"We are not sure..." or they believe in an afterlife or reincarnation etc.

I don't know how many people are like me that are certain that after Death a human will cease to exist forever. I assume it's a very small percentage maybe less than 3% of the population i'm guessing . i haven't seen many posts anywhere even here that i remember where people are sure that it's non-existence forever . yeah i've seen a few here but it seems most are not sure.

to me it's like saying that people are not sure what life is or where it came from or what a human is .

very smart hard working people like Charles Darwin have been working on finding out these questions for hundreds of years . it's known. evolution is true.

Mature sciences like neuroscience brain science, evolution, psychology , cell biology many others have thousands of books decades of evidence millions of webpages proving evolution is true and that the mind consciousness thinking all are generated only by the brain.

All humans and all life evolved from a single cell. a single cell is the ancestor of all life that exists on this horrible Earth.

Chemical evolution , chemicals combined and evolved to form the first cell .

That cell is the ancestor of every living thing.

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

"The common ancestry of all extant cellular life is evidenced by the universal genetic code, machinery for protein synthesis, shared chirality of the almost-universal set of 20 amino acids and use of ATP as a common energy currency"

These are things that are in all cells. but there are more like DNA ribosomes and more .

 

[locked*n*loaded]

How would it be for everyone if, because you purposely left your life early, by your own hand, you were condemned to start all over again, reliving your exact same life, as many times as necessary, until you could get through it without exiting prematurely. Of course you wouldn't be consciously aware that you were reliving your life.

 

[ceriseange♡]

A bit. The unknown is scary, but I think what scares me more is what I'd be leaning behind if that makes any sense. It's a really silly thought but I think about my stuffed animals a lot.

 

[dust-in-the-wind]

I don't know what happens after death but maybe I should consider "Pascal's wager" just in case.

 

[thickly_settled]

After you die will be just like before you were born.

 

[HopeToStay]

I have this weird theory that because it's not possible to experience nothing, you are reincarnated.

Conscience is truly weird concept to wrap your head around.

 

[thickly_settled]

I have this weird theory that because it's not possible to experience nothing, you are reincarnated.

Conscience is truly weird concept to wrap your head around.

Once you die, any capacity you had for experiencing anything is gone.

 

[Himeasa]

I do not believe that there is any self-evident supernatural truth. What we observe is a living thing, then death, then a dead thing with no brain-activity. Why is it that there should be something after death? Why ask this in the first place? Why are we even construing the idea of an "after death" if not for our living minds racking our brains to make life make sense? We as organisms are spurned by evolutionary pressure to survive and proliferate at any cost.

It's not that there is ambivalence between the ideas of something after death and nothing after death. It's that there's the fact of death which precedes all else, and subsequently our struggle with the thought that we may eventually cease thinking and feeling, and as such construct an escape, a sense that there might be something following death. The burden of evidence lies with the proponents of an afterlife.

As I view it, such religious concerns reinforce the mundane basis for all of this, fretting organisms which can think reifying their existences as such, to make sense for the organism as the organism, from the view of the organism and to the ends of the organism as itself. A circle drawn so not to confront the inevitability of mortality. We are after all very mortal little cells and we will perish and these cells will lose function: it is these cells which pose these inquiries because they refuse to be merely mortal little cells. Nothing more to it, I think.

The form in which we exist is the basis to our processes of thinking and feeling. Our structure. Death is the prime antithesis to the living form, hence that we cannot conceive it, hence that it is irreconcilable with our minds and cultures. Our brains are furthermore programmed to insist on our existences as much as possible, so we intentionally delude ourselves in addition.

 

[CantDoIt]

I am a little worried yeah
I don't really believe in eternal nothing and so the other alternatives make me nervous but I don't believe in a realm of punishment for humans who "get it wrong" either

 

[divinemistress87]

I'm excited to go to another dimension

 

[YuckyDucky]

As far as I'm concerned any kind of all powerful deity that lets the kind of shit that happens, happen, and requires worship in return, can fuck off even if that mere thought means eternal damnation for me. I have to keep some pride and draw the line somewhere.

 

[daysnumbered]

I fear life more than death sometimes.

 

[BlockHammer]

Say that even if there's heaven/hell to make my life more scrarier, it doesn't mean that i automaticly want to be alive, my life became unbearable since i graduate and i tried to improve it but despite all of that im still haven't got a propper job yet, some people believe that death is incomperhansible (they fear what they don't know) but would it be a bias to think so, just because you don't/can't understand death doesn't mean it's automaticly a bad thing!

 

[turbomightbegone]

I fear death itself, not really what comes after it. I'm not too sure what I believe about the afterlife, can never make my mind up about it. I just hope my pain won't continue after i eventually kneel over and die one way or another.

 

[outerspaceangel999]

I definitely am, yeah. The idea of potential consciousness after death terrifies me. But, I'll die anyway. I tried to save myself with religion but couldn't believe, so I guess if they are right I am going to Hell anyway. We'll have to face it eventually

 

[hawkshorizon]

When I'm able to to wear my empiricist hat and consider the question rationally, I 'know' there's nothing after the brain dies. But the Jesuits got me early, so there's still that bit of me that can fashion an afterlife. And if the guys in robes have it right, nothing much good awaits me there. That scares me.
Well said.