Venting Do you ever wonder what death feels like

[SanguineShark]

I was reading up about experiences of people who were medically dead for a short period of time, one of them said "It's just nothing, and you as a concept aren't even there. Once I came to, I found myself (and still find myself) wanting to go back. It's so so wonderful."
This changed my view on death a little bit, I don't know if that person is saying the truth (as everyone can lie on the internet), but like.. I hope that's what it is, honestly.
I am a bit scared of what happens after death, we all know the stuff religious ppl say, but I'm an atheist so I want to believe other things. I don't truly think we can still be aware after death, even though sometimes I wish I could keep the nice parts of life after death.. I'm not very suicidal while writing this very post, but I do still think about suicide and death a lot. I might just explain this as - I am suicidal, but not actively desperate for it as I am very often.

 

[FRUSTRATED MIND]

I was reading up about experiences of people who were medically dead for a short period of time, one of them said "It's just nothing, and you as a concept aren't even there. Once I came to, I found myself (and still find myself) wanting to go back. It's so so wonderful."
This changed my view on death a little bit, I don't know if that person is saying the truth (as everyone can lie on the internet), but like.. I hope that's what it is, honestly.
I am a bit scared of what happens after death, we all know the stuff religious ppl say, but I'm an atheist so I want to believe other things. I don't truly think we can still be aware after death, even though sometimes I wish I could keep the nice parts of life after death.. I'm not very suicidal while writing this very post, but I do still think about suicide and death a lot. I might just explain this as - I am suicidal, but not actively desperate for it as I am very often.

Sometimes I feel the same as you do. I'm an agnostic, even though my family is Protestant. There are times where I think it's difficult to exist life after death.

 

[zel]

Presumably death doesn't feel like anything, because to "feel" in the commonly understood sense of the world involves have senses like touch, sight, smell, etc. And even feeling with respect to emotion does presuppose a brain or awareness to have an emotion. It would make sense that it's just a nothingness: an absence of any emotion or feeling at all. Whether or not a different part of us like a "soul" changes residence afterwards is a different question entirely...

 

[hibikikyuxx]

Not sure if death feels like anything to begin with. As for the experiences you've read, keep in mind that it's different for everyone. I have read and heard of many experiences of people who were clinically dead and had no brain activity and yet "experienced" something, like reuniting with deceased family members or ending up in a place that's not on earth. Assuming that death is non existence, we wouldn't be able to feel/experience it anyway. It would be like a endless sleep. The fact that we are here is weird enough, is it not? We came from nothing and became something. If we become nothing after we die, we would become something again, am I wrong? Whatever death feels like, if it feels like anything, I am sure that it's better than life on earth.

 

[ddn.ctb]

I don't think we have feelings when we are dead - we no longer exist - but on the trip there, when you are unconscious, and your life is draining from you - your brain is still working - maybe not well - but it can still send out signals that are like dreams.

 

[S like suicide]

I am sure it will feel like heaven in my case.

 

[Duality]

I achieved unconsciousness twice, but in both attempts something went wrong (found too early, rope came loose). The first attempt led to a lengthy hospitalization. I'm saying all this to provide some background.

There is really nothing after unconsciousness. I know it's easier said than done, but the last thing anyone should worry about is a possible life after death. The focus should be on your present life, and if you are wanting to CTB, the prep work to make it as painless as possible. The moments before death are critical.

 

[Orbitc]

I really liked how someone here on the forum wrote about this, but I lost this topic - "Death is just eternal nothingness, just like the time before we were born." I'm an atheist and I don't believe in an afterlife. I hope that reincarnation doesn't exist either - I wouldn't want to become a worm after death that will eat my corpse, for example))) My first memory from childhood was the realization that I exist - I was sitting in the sandbox and I became conscious - as if I had been torn out of darkness of nothingness. I didn't like it and I screamed and cried loudly. Those who was around me did not understand what was going on - they thought that the baby was crying for absolutely no reason. It was such a shocking experience for me and it became such a vivid memory - since then I have constantly thought about death because I want to return to this oblivion. I remember this moment so clearly - I was sitting in the sandbox in a white swimsuit with a blue sparrow.

 

[FuneralCry]

Death doesn't feel like anything, it's the absence of everything, as I very strongly believe that once we lose consciousness we simply cease existing and that is it for us, we are gone.

I see death as being like how time passed before we were born where we were completely unaware of everything, the thought of eternal nothingness is all that comforts me, in this cruel and hellish reality death is such a relief.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

As others already said, I think death itself doesn't feels like anything. Religious people don't know what comes after death as well as everyone else doesn't know that. Given the fact death occurs naturally to everything what is in our universe it can't be sth terrible or bad.

 

[Orbitc]

As others already said, I think death itself doesn't feels like anything. Religious people don't know what comes after death as well as everyone else doesn't know that. Given the fact death occurs naturally to everything what is in our universe it can't be sth terrible or bad.

I love song Parkway drive - The Greatest Fear about this

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

The sense that there is a you experiencing something sentience and consciousness is solely created by the brain. Existence is not continous. When you go to sleep every night in a dreamless sleep you cease to exist. Another thing that shows existence is created by the brain. It is such a fragile tempory thing goes away every night. also shows it's an illusion.

During sleep the brain is not creating consciousness and after Death the brain can never create conciousness or existence again.

It's such a relief to me knowing that I will never be able to suffer extreme pain after Death. for example also under deep aneshesia a human can't feel any pain even while they are cutting up their stomach. why ? because the brain is inactivated to a level where it cannot create sentience / consciuonsess. The brain needs this level of activation to be able to suffer . one cannot suffer under dreamless sleep or anesthesia.

Neuroscientists Identify Brain Network Critical for Consciousness | Sci.News

The loss and return of consciousness is linked to the same core brain network for both sleep and anesthesia.

www.sci.news

Below here are the parts of the brain are lit up or connected that create consciousness . that is to be conscious these areas have to be connected / lit up certain colors. These areas are disonnected / inactive/ not lit up during sleep and anesthesia. so this is why a human can't feel pain under anesthesia, just some parts of the brain are deactivated. of course after those areas and the whole brain dies after Death the parts of the brain that created consciousness can never work again.

Joscha bach says we only exist in the story the brain tells itself and that existence is not continuos even while awake ( autopilot) and i agree.

 

[Kta1994]

The sense that there is a you experiencing something sentience and consciousness is solely created by the brain. Existence is not continous. When you go to sleep every night in a dreamless sleep you cease to exist. Another thing that shows existence is created by the brain. It is such a fragile tempory thing goes away every night. also shows it's an illusion.

During sleep the brain is not creating consciousness and after Death the brain can never create conciousness or existence again.

It's such a relief to me knowing that I will never be able to suffer extreme pain after Death. for example also under deep aneshesia a human can't feel any pain even while they are cutting up their stomach. why ? because the brain is inactivated to a level where it cannot create sentience / consciuonsess. The brain needs this level of activation to be able to suffer . one cannot suffer under dreamless sleep or anesthesia.

Neuroscientists Identify Brain Network Critical for Consciousness | Sci.News

The loss and return of consciousness is linked to the same core brain network for both sleep and anesthesia.

www.sci.news

Below here are the parts of the brain are lit up or connected that create consciousness . that is to be conscious these areas have to be connected / lit up certain colors. These areas are disonnected / inactive/ not lit up during sleep and anesthesia. so this is why a human can't feel pain under anesthesia, just some parts of the brain are deactivated. of course after those areas and the whole brain dies after Death the parts of the brain that created conscoiusness can never work again.

Joscha bach says we only exist in the story the brain tells itself and that existence is not continous even while awak ( autopilot) and i agree.

there are cases of NDEs that people had no brain activity and still had the profound experience of their life, there is no solid evidencr that the brain produces consciousness and not just a receptor

 

[EvisceratedJester]

I think my favourite description of death that I've found was recently from a comment under a youtube video. They stated that death was when you fall asleep and you have no dream. I actually took a screenshot of it.

 

[princexhhn]

I have always imagined death to feel comforting! you are dying, and so the universe brings you back into their arms. the clocks keep turning, but the world has also gone back to a time without you in it. you are dying and so the universe is taking you back.

just what i think, personally ^-^

 

[MatrixPrisoner]

The sense that there is a you experiencing something sentience and consciousness is solely created by the brain. Existence is not continous. When you go to sleep every night in a dreamless sleep you cease to exist. Another thing that shows existence is created by the brain. It is such a fragile tempory thing goes away every night. also shows it's an illusion.

During sleep the brain is not creating consciousness and after Death the brain can never create conciousness or existence again.

It's such a relief to me knowing that I will never be able to suffer extreme pain after Death. for example also under deep aneshesia a human can't feel any pain even while they are cutting up their stomach. why ? because the brain is inactivated to a level where it cannot create sentience / consciuonsess. The brain needs this level of activation to be able to suffer . one cannot suffer under dreamless sleep or anesthesia.

Neuroscientists Identify Brain Network Critical for Consciousness | Sci.News

The loss and return of consciousness is linked to the same core brain network for both sleep and anesthesia.

www.sci.news

Below here are the parts of the brain are lit up or connected that create consciousness . that is to be conscious these areas have to be connected / lit up certain colors. These areas are disonnected / inactive/ not lit up during sleep and anesthesia. so this is why a human can't feel pain under anesthesia, just some parts of the brain are deactivated. of course after those areas and the whole brain dies after Death the parts of the brain that created conscoiusness can never work again.

Joscha bach says we only exist in the story the brain tells itself and that existence is not continous even while awak ( autopilot) and i agree.

Which is why I am stating in my S-note that I want to be cremated, to eliminate any chance of inner consciousness and awaeness during the decomposition process after death.

 

[steppenwolf]

I was reading up about experiences of people who were medically dead for a short period of time, one of them said "It's just nothing, and you as a concept aren't even there. Once I came to, I found myself (and still find myself) wanting to go back. It's so so wonderful."
This changed my view on death a little bit, I don't know if that person is saying the truth (as everyone can lie on the internet), but like.. I hope that's what it is, honestly.
I am a bit scared of what happens after death, we all know the stuff religious ppl say, but I'm an atheist so I want to believe other things. I don't truly think we can still be aware after death, even though sometimes I wish I could keep the nice parts of life after death.. I'm not very suicidal while writing this very post, but I do still think about suicide and death a lot. I might just explain this as - I am suicidal, but not actively desperate for it as I am very often.

The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out
The worms play rummy upon your snout
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose
They eat the jelly between your toes
A great big worm with rolling eyes
Crawls in your belly and out your eyes
Your stomach turns a slimy green
And pus comes out like whipping cream
And the worms crawl out and the worms crawl in
The worms that crawl in are lean and thin
The ones that crawl out are fat and stout
Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
Your brains come tumbling down your snout
They invite their friends, and their friends too
They all come down to chew on you
And this is what it's like to die
I hope you had a nice goodbye

 

[Kundalini Guy]

It probably feels like a huge emotional and physical release similar to how you feel after pooping

 

[Asingletwig]

I watched a video on Reddit about a guy explaining what he felt about his death( he was dead for a few minutes before being revived) it sounded so peaceful and at the time pushed me to actively plan because I wanted that so bad. Because how I felt at the time was hell I just wanted a lil bit of that peace he expressed

 

[ThisIsLife]

I don't understand all the people being so sure about what they call "nothingness" after death, just because all experiences of general anesthesia were the same for everyone: not remembering or feeling anything and feeling like it was being asleep with no notion of time. I don't get how people so easily jump to that conclusion. It doesn't mean that death equals to nothingness, because during a general anesthesia you're still alive. The same logic applies to being asleep; yes you're not conscious while asleep, but i'll say it again: you're still alive. How so many people here think sleeping and/or being under general anesthesia can be compared to death is beyond me.

As for the experiences you've read, keep in mind that it's different for everyone. I have read and heard of many experiences of people who were clinically dead and had no brain activity and yet "experienced" something, like reuniting with deceased family members or ending up in a place that's not on earth. Assuming that death is non existence, we wouldn't be able to feel/experience it anyway. It would be like a endless sleep.

YES. The ones that sticked to me were the ones of persons who were capable of describing exactly what happened in other places very far from where their body was lying, sometimes in other countries where members of their family were living. They could tell what they were wearing, doing or saying, when, where and with who; all while their own body was clinically dead and their brain having no activity; and when coming back to life later those events were confirmed to have happened exactly how they reported it.

 

[SanguineShark]

I watched a video on Reddit about a guy explaining what he felt about his death( he was dead for a few minutes before being revived) it sounded so peaceful and at the time pushed me to actively plan because I wanted that so bad. Because how I felt at the time was hell I just wanted a lil bit of that peace he expressed

yeah basically same here, I got a bit excited about death I must admit

The ones that sticked to me were the ones of persons who were capable of describing exactly what happened in other places very far from where their body was lying, sometimes in other countries where members of their family were living. They could tell what they were wearing, doing or saying, when, where and with who; all while their own body was clinically dead and their brain having no activity; and when coming back to life later those events were confirmed to have happened exactly how they reported it.

Ngl I kinda don't trust that. You never know if ppl are telling the truth, some might do it for media attention, and something like this sounds like a big story... or christian propaganda I'd be forced to watch in school, a whole ass movie about this exact scenario to "prove" that a soul exists.

 

[TiredTurtle]

I hope it feels like before I was born