Discussion Poll: What do you believe happens when we die?

[Altvtysp]

Ultimately we can't know what happens when we die but I believe we simply stop existing. Most cannot get their head around this so they believe something fantastical like heaven, an afterlife or reincarnation. I like to think of it as we return to the universe because essentially that is what happens.

 

[Barteljaap]

People who were raised without religion are honestly lucky. I may be an atheist now, but I was told from an early age that there is a heaven and hell.

Although I may not see any proof of hell and I believe it most likely doesn't exist, there will always be a part of me holding me back from CTB from fear that I escape the torture of this life just to fall into another place of torture.

Hell is truly a sadistic concept as it essentially tells people that they have no escape from suffering.

 

[Tiberius85]

I guess, nobody truly knows. Those that are gone hardly ever return to tell the tale.

Hence, my educated guess is there is absolutely nothing. We simply dissolve, our parts go back from where they came - to nature, in some form or another. The state after dying is effectively the same as before birth: nothingness.

What means is also: the party is now. Right here, right now. Nobody of us knows when we die. Can be sooner, can be later. The only thing we know and truly own is this moment. Now.

 

[Lifeaballache]

I think its the same as before birth, nothingness. Im really looking forward to be in nothingness, nothing to worry about.

You could argue that before you're born you don't exist. However after you die your spirit could still live on..

 

[Scythe]

I don't really believe in anything specfic, I just believe there's no judgement process, and that there's some place that the dead stay. I also believe that sometimes the dead linger on earth as ghosts and maybe they linger forever or maybe it's until they move on from whatever. And I believe that in the place where the dead go, you can be reincarnated, but you don't have control over the process at all. I am also fairly certain I will see the one I've been wanting to see after I die.

 

[aladdin]

Eternal sleep, that's what I believe.

 

[gimzero]

We just go to a disc in a huper computer and wait.

 

[knightxenon]

I think there is afterlife...which is a loving place.... hopefully....

 

[Csmith8827]

I voted simulation but what does that even mean?

But no even when you like close your eyes one final time like you probably see God or the Lord Jesus like enthroned in glorious majesty and pristine greatness. Like in heaven right? Your spirit or whatever supposedly...That's what I imagine. could be wrong though. I mean we could be being used by some sort of higher power, nobody knows man. That's a tough question.

 

[Exact Change]

"The people who love you, will miss you." - Keanu Reeves

 

[AdaSmiles]

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Very interesting theory!

 

[Sad_Sack]

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Sadly though, this diagram doesn't necessarily mean we are in a loop at all. The nothingness we were before we were born does in no way mean that we were dead. Saying we came from death requires proof that we had in fact existed and died before we were born, which we don't have. Most likely we had simply never existed at all. If that is the case nonexistence before birth would be finite, but the nonexistence that occurs after we die would be infinite.

This isn't to say that it isn't possible we are in a loop of death and rebirth, it just isn't a fact. I actually hope we are in a loop. I've posted about it before but its just a hope not fact.

 

[FallFadesIntoWinter]

I've been a follower of Buddhism (spiritually with their beliefs, not religiously in terms of belonging to a temple or being devoted) and I truly believe in reincarnation.

Simply put, you're supposed to learn from your mistakes in life, gather wisdom through life lessons (both good and bad) and your journey really is about experiencing all different types/aspects/angles of love (again, both good and bad).

The only way I can justify this belief (in the fact you get another chance to make things right again) is that 6 year old kids die of cancer while racist assholes who steal $$$, murder people and grift their way through life live into their golden years. The universe doesn't do anything by "chance", your journey in this life is designed a certain way and I honestly do believe suicide is part of it.

Great book that explains a lot of it (and it's non-denominational too, not religious at all): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8369940-your-soul-s-plan

 

[S like Siren]

Peace finally

 

[onlyway63]

I really don't know.
I guess I wouldn't mind reincarnation, as long as I could start out in some other country. On the other hand, maybe I'd spend a lifetime or two as some kind of animal, if that were possible, and then come back as a human again.
The way things are going, though, maybe reincarnating would be more trouble than it's worth, if there's even an inhabitable planet to come back to in 50 years or so.

 

[LONE WOLF.]

I hope that l go to the happiest time of my life which is the 23.5yrs l spent with my 2 Staffies over Rainbow Bridge! If not then the Battlefield in Valhalla where all soldiers go after they've fallen! Either will do for me

 

[jodes2]

the thought of oblivion is comforting to me. and in my two close calls with death (partial hanging and SN), i did not see a light or anything of the sort, i simply did not exist. i had no thoughts or sensations, it was nothingness. i find it peaceful

What went wrong with your SN attempt?