Discussion Is there anything awaiting us after death, or is it just void and nothingness?

[wereqryan]

Question.

 

[Futile]

Nobody can know for sure, but almost everything would be better than this life tbh

 

[BetterInthanOut]

Fingers crossed for void lol. It's definitely interesting to think about

 

[Wisdom3_1-9]

I hope my best friend is waiting for me. The image of him stretching out his hand to welcome me would be comforting as I ctb.

 

[BeBraveBrother]

Some say X or Y or Z - sceneario awaits you. Some say it will be like the years before your parents had Sex with each other: Nothing. If it is nothing you don't experience it because for the experience of nothing you would need a conciousness that is able to percieve which than is something.
Other might claim: What you believe will come true and Manifest.

There are definatly Near Death Experiences. Most people experienced what they belived to be true. Whether or not this will persist after all your bodily functions are permenatly dead isn't clear.

If there is more we will see it with death but even then we might believe it is a bodily reality when we just don't realize parts of our body is staging it for us.

The question is: Are you prepared to let go and accept that the moment you commit suicide will be the last you will ever experience?
I definatly am, but I want those last moments to be peacefull.

 

[7ighway]

i think it'd be the void but if it's anything but that then that would certainly suggest that some part of your consciousness transcends your brain, and that in itself is a rabbit hole that you'll just have to explore yourself.

 

[almost_dead]

"you" cease to exist , so there is no question of "you" experiencing something (kinda like deep sleep with no dreams )

 

[Meditation guide]

Houdini promised to let his widow know after he died by giving a sign somehow he was still around. She held a seance every year for ten years but never got any sign from him he was still alive as a spirit.

There is a theory that some stick around as ghosts but are unhappy with that situation, while others go to the light and become one with the great universal consciousness. That option is probably the best one.

 

[BipolarGuy]

This is the way I think of it:

First of all I used to be religious. Now I'm not, because of what I've gone through.
While many religious types would turn this into a debate about how you should keep faith in the "storm", the reality is that if there is a God that pushes people to suicide as a test of faith, or to make some kind of Biblical point, then that says all we need to know about this God....

Consciousness can be thought of as being analogous to the current in a wire. Turn the current off, and consciousness no longer exists.
Consciousness doesn't go somewhere else or take another form, in the same way that the current in the wire once switched off, doesn't go elsewhere.

 

[reggiesaurus]

Yes. Shitting yourself. At least 50% of the time.

 

[Wayfaerer]

Void. Eternal void if we are fortunate.

 

[sadworld]

Even if its nothingness, its better than this life. I still hope that there will be something and i cant wait to know!

 

[deleted]

Anyway, I hope there are no humans on the other side

 

[Didymus]

Question.

Nobody knows

 

[TheQ22]

Even if there is something after, I guess that since we won't have a physical body, endocrine system, etc, a lot of the pain we feel will be no more - no more anxiety, no panic attacks, etc.

Hopefully they don't make you get a job and have debt and money to survive there either, so hopefully it'll be a lot better.

Or there'll be nothing.

Either way is a win.

 

[Lastsauce]

If the universe in the end collapses in a heat death AND the point of infinite mass bounces back creating a new big bang, everything should happen exactly the same as previously in the reborn universe.
I sure as hell hope it's not like that but it doesn't matter in the end.

 

[Deathbydemo]

It all depends on your personal beliefs. I firmly believe after death there is simply nothing... as you were before you were born. It's a comforting thought.

 

[Zyntkalla]

I know what it is like to experience nothing at all.I use to have seizures,and it affected my eyesite sometimes, and when that happened it felt like I didn't have a body or mind,and also nothing excited around me. And it was the best experience I ever had in my entire life. And it's the closest to death I had ever experience before.

 

[Pharmaruined]

My guess is you get drawn to a light, possibly talk to some fake entity that pretends to love you and then get recycled back on Earth.. every documented near death experience practically entails the same story

you think deception only happens in life? I think it happens in death as well.. and I've known vividly that I've been here before.. probably several times..

This planet is one big software program, even people like Elon Musk and others agree.. it's a horrible game rigged to lose. Every day you're alive something has to die for you.. whether it's a cow, plant etc... Everything is lunch. Sorry for the rant.. haha

 

[TheQ22]

There is a theory that it's just a simulation. Maybe we're the simulation for the 20th & 21st century and we keep getting re-run over and over again to see if the outcome is any different.

 

[Thinking]

I think the idea of a void seems scary at first because you imagine it how your current consciousness would feel in that void. If there is a void, it would be more like a deep, everlasting, dreamless sleep, which honestly sounds quite nice.

 

[Ready2GoNow]

I can only speak from my experience. I attempted just under a year ago, was revived in the emergency room and spent a week in the ICU.
Everything went black and I saw nothing, felt nothing, was nothing. It was just like being asleep (without dreaming)

 

[esse_est_percipi]

Consciousness can be thought of as being analogous to the current in a wire. Turn the current off, and consciousness no longer exists.
Consciousness doesn't go somewhere else or take another form, in the same way that the current in the wire once switched off, doesn't go elsewhere.

But the current in a wire doesn't just disappear when you turn it off either. In a way it does go elsewhere -- in a less concentrated form in energy fields. Energy cannot be destroyed, so it still exists in the electromagnetic field.

If consciousness is an ethereal form of energy, perhaps originating in quantum states, then the same has to apply to it too.

I can only speak from my experience. I attempted just under a year ago, was revived in the emergency room and spent a week in the ICU.
Everything went black and I saw nothing, felt nothing, was nothing. It was just like being asleep (without dreaming)

How did you experience the passage of time? Did it feel like a really long sleep, or was it a case of going unconscious then feeling like you immediately woke up again?

and I've known vividly that I've been here before.. probably several times..

past lives? Reincarnation? How do you know?

 

[TheQ22]

But the current in a wire doesn't just disappear when you turn it off either. In a way it does go elsewhere -- in a less concentrated form in energy fields. Energy cannot be destroyed, so it still exists in the electromagnetic field.

If consciousness is an ethereal form of energy, perhaps originating in quantum states, then the same has to apply to it too.

How did you experience the passage of time? Did it feel like a really long sleep, or was it a case of going unconscious then feeling like you immediately woke up again?

past lives? Reincarnation? How do you know?

I know a guy who was being put in traction and they trapped a nerve in his back or something giving him a massive heart attack and he was clinically dead.

They brought him round and he said there was nothing - no light, no people waiting for him just nothing until he came round later.

 

[Ready2GoNow]

How did you experience the passage of time? Did it feel like a really long sleep, or was it a case of going unconscious then feeling like you immediately woke up again?

There was no concept of time, I was out for 2 days but it felt like no time at all. The best way I can describe it is the same way it feels when you wake up after a nap. Or if you've ever been put to sleep for surgery, it's comparable to that too. I was afraid about the possibility of an afterlife before, but after that attempt I'm not anymore. In my eyes it's just like going to sleep, with the difference that you won't wake up. You'll just remain in that state of peaceful nothingness forever. Here's hoping anyway. Imagine if reincarnation was real! Having to go through this all over again?! That's a hard pass from me lol

 

[BipolarGuy]

But the current in a wire doesn't just disappear when you turn it off either. In a way it does go elsewhere -- in a less concentrated form in energy fields. Energy cannot be destroyed, so it still exists in the electromagnetic field.

If consciousness is an ethereal form of energy, perhaps originating in quantum states, then the same has to apply to it too.

Totally wrong.
Your misunderstanding of the link between electricity and magnetism (electromagnetism) is frustrating.
You also have no grasp of what is meant by a 'quantum state'.

 

[TAW122]

From my understanding, it's just void and nothingness as I don't have sufficient evidence to believe otherwise.

 

[Meditation guide]

Imagine if reincarnation was real! Having to go through this all over again?! That's a hard pass from me lol

Based on my experience with partial memory of a different life in a different time and place, I am afraid it is real, reincarnation. I died, which was like going to sleep, in the 1800s in Georgia and when I woke up I was in Maryland with new parents. I remembered bits of my old life and I'm not making this up.
I was always very puzzled by this as a small child. What could have happened that I ended up in this new place.

Try to imagine going to sleep at night like usual but when you wake up you are in a different place, different house with these strangers. That is exactly what it felt like up until I was about 6 years old when that old memory faded.

 

[esse_est_percipi]

I know a guy who was being put in traction and they trapped a nerve in his back or something giving him a massive heart attack and he was clinically dead.

They brought him round and he said there was nothing - no light, no people waiting for him just nothing until he came round later.

That doesn't prove anything. Just an anecdotal account, like all the NDE anecdotal accounts.
None of it proves anything.

 

[Spitfire]

Completely empty.. seems out of the question, right?

I saw something strongly suggestive against a eternal void.