Discussion Do you believe in an afterlife

[RejectMetamorphosis]

Yeah. When I die I will be transported to a fairy forest filled with small critters who live in cute mini cottages. They are very friendly and love cooking strawberry tarts every monday/saturday morning for their neighbors!

 

[6o66yx]

Well my friend had an nde and another friend is a psyhic medium and messages ive had from her from spirits from the otherside were things I could have only known so I believe we meet up with family and friends again in some other dimension. So I believe we are in a simulation and only suffering is here on Earth which is a learning

we live then we become compost

I like compost tbh

One time I died for 1 minute and a I don't recall how many seconds the second time I died for four minutes the third time I died for two minutes. Every time I was brought back to life obviously but all I remember is blackness and nothingness. No God no warmth no family members. Just emptiness.

That is pure angelic music in my ears (although you've written it and not speak it to me)

I hope for reincarnation - i'd love to be reincarnated as a housecat. But I find it difficult to truly believe in an afterlife, even if I want one

Yes, when I thought about the possibility of reincarnation my wish was always housecat. But in an loving household and I wanna be able to go out and hunt mice, to bring it back as a gift for owners

Yeah. When I die I will be transported to a fairy forest filled with small critters who live in cute mini cottages. They are very friendly and love cooking strawberry tarts every monday/saturday morning for their neighbors!

Sounds like some kind of lovely DMT realm

 

[andreamysk]

Well my friend had an nde and another friend is a psyhic medium and messages ive had from her from spirits from the otherside were things I could have only known so I believe we meet up with family and friends again in some other dimension. So I believe we are in a simulation and only suffering is here on Earth which is a learning hell type realm

It would be nice if that were the case (at least the part about meeting up with our loved ones again in another dimension). I fear that we still know too little about how our brains work (which could perhaps offer alternative explanations for these 'spiritual' phenomena of mediums etc.). This has often happened in human history: I still hope I'm wrong :-)

 

[Praestat_Mori]

No.

And I also hope there is neither an afterlife whether I died naturally nor if I CTBed. One life was enough.

 

[anopenwound]

I mean, I wish I did. It'd be nice to be in a constant state of self-aware peace - but I suppose as long as there's awareness there's also other things rather than peace.
I think this is it and maybe the energy that fuels us, the atoms, life itself gets all over the universe and goes out to form other beings - plants, bugs, animals, humans - but the individual, this person I am, will be done forever then. Parts of me will linger on as long as people will remember, as long as other people will go through what I went through, as long as there'll be something universal about the way we all feel and experience the world. But yeah, I'll be gone. Maybe it's for the better. This state of existence is so painful putting an end to it seems like a very good idea.

 

[etherealgoddess]

Since this website is mainly about suicide one might ask himself if there's an afterlife as most religions in the world proclaim.

What religion can't really answer is how an dead brain can experience an afterlife, maybe because they had no clue how the brain works back then when they founded their religions.

You can make up an concept of an afterlife while you have an brain which is still alive and functioning, but probably not anymore after no more electric impulses are being transferred between neurotransmitters whilst the brain itself will just rot away slowly.

What are your opinions on this?

I'm spiritual, not religious. I personally believe that all of this is like a vacation or a video game that is extremely intricate. I truly believe that when you die, you'll just come back to the main lobby. I think that there is the 4D, which means that there are tons of 3D realities stacked beside each other the same way that 2D shapes stack to make a 3D figure. I have read near death experiences, and some of them talk about how they noticed people had jobs back there, but instead, they do it because they love it, not because of money or because they have to. It's really hard to tell what will reallyyyyy happen. I heard something about how we're not supposed to know or else we'd want to come back. A lot of NDEs talk about how it's like bathing in lots of love and it feels crazy fucking good. Then coming here is like getting squeezed into a cold little can, scared and not used to the feelings you had before. My mom also once had a dream that she saw the sun and it bathed and she felt extremely good. It was not a normal feeling... it felt that good for her. I think that might have been some kind of divine intervention. And I have had countless miracles or intuition that had literally no way of being known unless there was connection to the 4D. If you don't believe what I'm saying, it's more likely because you aren't ready yet or maybe you won't be ready in this lifetime for spirituality. Happens.

 

[mosspit]

I think that an afterlife or reincarnation could be possible cause I am in a life now what's to say its not like a cycle and there isn't another life after

 

[6o66yx]

I think that an afterlife or reincarnation could be possible cause I am in a life now what's to say its not like a cycle and there isn't another life after

It could be possible, but the question would be how likely it is to be possible.

Our bodies will first decay or turned to ashes after we die, and I personally think that a "soul" was invented in some time period in the past by some philosophers or theologians.

For example, in the jewish tradition the concept of an afterlife at all evolved over time, because they were exposed to other cultures like Zoroastrianism in their exile where there was an belief of an afterlife.

In the beginning of the old testament, there just was "life", but no "afterlife". After Adam and Eve sinned against God they would just die, turn into the dust from which they were made.

The tree of life which would give them eternal life was not accessible anymore after they got kicked out of the garden.

In all of this, there was no concept of an afterlife at all. As I said, this only evolved later to the influence of other cultures.

That's why I believe that it's just made up by the human psyche/fantasy.

I can't find any other explanation or validation which would convince me of the possibility that we posses a soul or that an afterlife exists. I would need to experience it, which I only can after I die.

 

[QueenInsomnia]

From a scientific perspective, the afterlife is challenging to study empirically. Science relies on observable, measurable phenomena, and the nature of an afterlife (if it exists) is generally conceived as being outside the physical realm we can directly investigate. While some researchers have studied near-death experiences or attempted to measure the weight of the soul leaving the body at death, these studies have not produced conclusive evidence that meets rigorous scientific standards.

On the religious side, many faiths include beliefs about an afterlife as a core tenet. However, these beliefs are typically based on faith, religious texts, and personal experiences rather than empirical evidence. While deeply meaningful to believers, religious claims about the afterlife are not provable or disprovable through scientific means.

The question of an afterlife also intersects with complex philosophical issues regarding consciousness, the nature of the self, and what it means to persist beyond physical death. These questions remain actively debated in philosophy of mind and metaphysics.

Given these limitations, many would agree that neither science nor religion can conclusively prove or disprove the existence of an afterlife. This leaves room for personal belief, philosophical speculation, and continued exploration of the question through various lenses.

As for me, yes, I personally do believe in an afterlife. I had some vivid out of body experiences as a child that I still remember to this day, plus various experiences that I've had as an adult about loved ones who have passed away.

 

[divinemistress36]

I'm spiritual, not religious. I personally believe that all of this is like a vacation or a video game that is extremely intricate. I truly believe that when you die, you'll just come back to the main lobby. I think that there is the 4D, which means that there are tons of 3D realities stacked beside each other the same way that 2D shapes stack to make a 3D figure. I have read near death experiences, and some of them talk about how they noticed people had jobs back there, but instead, they do it because they love it, not because of money or because they have to. It's really hard to tell what will reallyyyyy happen. I heard something about how we're not supposed to know or else we'd want to come back. A lot of NDEs talk about how it's like bathing in lots of love and it feels crazy fucking good. Then coming here is like getting squeezed into a cold little can, scared and not used to the feelings you had before. My mom also once had a dream that she saw the sun and it bathed and she felt extremely good. It was not a normal feeling... it felt that good for her. I think that might have been some kind of divine intervention. And I have had countless miracles or intuition that had literally no way of being known unless there was connection to the 4D. If you don't believe what I'm saying, it's more likely because you aren't ready yet or maybe you won't be ready in this lifetime for spirituality. Happens.

I can't wait to go home