What do you believe is on the other side?

[waterrrrrrrrrbottel]

I like to believe the afterlife is just an eternal deep sleep. What makes you guys excited for death, if you are?

 

[Endex]

For me, it's just the same as before I was conceived / born, nothingness. I walk in the woods and see people's initials with dates carved in some of the trees, say 1956 as an example. I might remember something that happened in that year in history, I can work out how long ago it was carved, but I didn't exist at that point in time and I won't exist again at some point in future.

 

[FuneralCry]

I very strongly believe that we just cease to exist after we leave this world, with not even the awareness that we are dead and this thought comforts me very much. I'm very much looking forward to no longer existing, in fact that's all that there could ever be to look forward to. I see non existence as being perfection, as those who no longer exist cannot suffer, there are no disadvantages to being dead and to die solves all problems after all. Only those who not exist are the truly fortunate ones.

 

[jodes2]

Yeah I think it's just an eternity of nothingness too. I'd be quite happy to die, given my anhedonia and lack of money, lack of friends, lack of drugs, lack of excitement. But it looks like I'm stuck here. I don't have a particularly good method, it'll be pretty horrible. And I hate suffering. And I can't bring myself to do it to my gf. I wish I could enjoy life. But I enjoy about 0.05% of my life. It's mostly just tedium. I envy people with productive, full lives, the satisfaction that must bring. The contentment. They're so selfish and ignorant, hoarding their wealth and well being, always stepping on others. I wouldn't do that. I don't think I've ever stepped on others it's not what I do.

 

[Blackroom_57]

I hope it's just nothing

 

[outrider567]

I wish she was there, but I know there's nothing

 

[userguy993]

I don't believe there is any other side

 

[ilovecats]

Nothing. Just eternal unconsciousness.

 

[nembutal]

i only began to ponder on this concept when my ex boyfriend passed. because there is no evidence of the contrary i believe we cease into nothingness, the same state we were in before birth. i honestly wish i was religious because the reality of never seeing this person again terrifies me. its kind of bizarre because this was the exact topic my ex and i first spoke about when we met. right off the bat.

 

[AerialBoundaries]

There's nothing. The same as before you were born. Some will disagree, but any prospect of an afterlife, is simply a comfort blanket.

There's people I've lost who I miss dearly and would love to see again, but I'm a realist. It's definitely a source of sadness for me.

I was raised in a devout Catholic family and faced many sobering truths in regards to life and death, when I gave up religion many years ago.

 

[stilhavinightmares]

Probably nothing, but part of me still hopes my loved ones are all there in different ways and that it's beautiful and peaceful.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

There is no other side .Death is the end of existence for a small animal called a human.

I'm excited because non-existence means I won't ever suffer extreme pain which is so unimaginably unbearable.

 

[annointed_towers]

There's a heaven and hell. Don't ask me how I know.

 

[Kattt]

While not wanting to piss on anyone's beliefs, I've flatlined 4 times now, spending up to about 3 days in an unconscious state.
100% honesty....there was a beautiful "nothingness". No pain yet nothing else either.
However, upon regaining consciousness, I was immediately infuriated with being forced to leave that state. I have thought long and hard for the most appropriate term with which to describe it and came up with "bliss".
That's literally all I have to contribute.
The number of people who have died is approaching 120 billion. Personally, I don't think we would have any unique claim on it, if there were an afterlife, so along with all the people would be all the animals that have died.
That sounds uncomfortably crowded to me!
Finally, having survived 5 decades, I'm thinking that this lifetime is quite long enough without all that.

 

[NHLTradeRumor]

I hope it's nothing. Scientifically, we technically don't know for sure, we can't ask the dead what it's like to be dead, but it's almost certainly eternal nothingness. There are people I'd love to see after I die, but I just don't believe that's how it works.

 

[Kattt]

The fact is that we are just beings primarily consisting of oxygen and carbon. Our purpose is to ensure the survival (and the advancement) of our genetic make-up.
It's simply a matter of evolution.. adapt and survive.
It's natural for people to fear that which they don't understand and death is the eternal mystery. So, to provide comfort and some semblance of an explanation that has widely been accepted, stories of God's, afterlives, malicious demonic entities and all manner of fantastical concepts have abounded.

 

[Anon1337]

It's nothing. I don't like it when people say it's "blackness" because it suggests we can experience it. We won't be trapped in some dark void for eternity. We just won't exist.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

That anyone who CTB is sent back and required to re-live their life exactly as it was until they see it through all the way to it's natural end.

No, not really. Just injecting a little comic relief.

 

[itsallpointless]

I'd like to believe that you are completely right. As far as this human existence can possibly know, we came into being from a source of unmanifested consciousness. That source is encoded somewhere in our flesh and when this human consciousness ceases, that is where we will return to.

 

[Marcus Wright]

There's a heaven and hell. Don't ask me how I know.

There's no heaven and hell. Don't ask me how I know.

 

[Antinous]

The Krebs cycle is a chain of reactions occurring in the mitochondria, through which living cells produce energy in aerobic respiration. It is the key component of metabolism. When the Krebs cycle stops, metabolism stops = death. No metabolism = no consciousness.

Wishful thinking is fun, but that's all it is. So-called religious people sell wishful thinking because it gives certain members power, wealth, and privilege; or in most cases, merely the illusion of power, wealth and privilege. "Afterlife" (the other side) is imaginary. Imagination is a lot of fun, but why stake anything important on something that is made up?

The human brain seems to be very susceptible to thinking the virtual world it builds out of its imagination is as real as the world it builds based on empirical evidence. I read a fictional story where two people fall in love, and I burst into tears of happiness when they kiss. Even though my brain knows that the story is imaginary, it reacts as though it is real. That kind of thinking isn't problematic until I do the same thing in thinking "the other side" is an actual thing.

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

I wonder if anybody is so excited for death that he or she commits suicide. Afterlife, if there is something like that will not run away.

 

[cyanlove]

I definitely believe in the traditional heaven-hell business. Another reason I am afraid to kill myself.

 

[LunaXCBN]

Lakes of fire. I believe that the doors of heaven are closed for all of humanity, and the only thing that awaits is a lake of fire forged specifically for us.

 

[annointed_towers]

There's no heaven and hell. Don't ask me how I know.

You'll remember me when you kick the bucket.

 

[stermc]

"ex nihilo fit, et in nihilum nihil potest reverti"

 

[purpletotebag]

While not wanting to piss on anyone's beliefs, I've flatlined 4 times now, spending up to about 3 days in an unconscious state.
100% honesty....there was a beautiful "nothingness". No pain yet nothing else either.
However, upon regaining consciousness, I was immediately infuriated with being forced to leave that state. I have thought long and hard for the most appropriate term with which to describe it and came up with "bliss".
That's literally all I have to contribute.
The number of people who have died is approaching 120 billion. Personally, I don't think we would have any unique claim on it, if there were an afterlife, so along with all the people would be all the animals that have died.
That sounds uncomfortably crowded to me!
Finally, having survived 5 decades, I'm thinking that this lifetime is quite long enough without all that.

Could you explain more about what you felt during your unconscious state? Like you remember how you felt and were aware while unconscious?

 

[lunarflower]

Those who know do not speak and those who speak do not know

 

[Kattt]

Could you explain more about what you felt during your unconscious state? Like you remember how you felt and were aware while unconscious?

No. A few times involved considerable pain before... the awesome void. Which have contributed to the idea that it's a "blissful" state. That's kind of why the only way I can describe it is a "nothingness", because I remember nothing. It's funny how I'm not alone in being angry with returning to consciousness. They weren't all attempts, nor we're the intentions of those who concurred.
The time that elapsed before regaining consciousness was just minutes (the shortest) and days (the longest).
Sorry I can't provide more useful information.

 

[LunaRory]

sweet nothingness