What do you guys think death is like?

[lonerclown666]

I dont know i just want to end the pain

 

[BittersweetSymphony]

I hope it's something beautiful like all those near death experiences say, but I'm not convinced. I don't believe in the concept of an eternal hell, especially the way it's described in Christianity. That just sounds stupid to me. I think it's most likely an eternal sleep, where you close your eyes and never wake up. That's both comforting and terrifying to me at the same time. I spend most of my days now asleep in bed. It's literally the only time I feel comfortable. But the idea of never waking up again, I just can't fathom it. And I'm so afraid of anything I can't understand.

 

[DeadSoul98]

I think it's like falling asleep. Your consciousness fades away and you will feel peace. I hope for a bright light rather than darkness

 

[Still_there]

For me i think, it will be before birth...just nothing. No problems anymore, but in my case i will never know how my famalie ist doing, which makes me very sad. But i cant go on.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Of course, it's going to completely depend on your belief system as to what happens after death and none of us know for sure.

For the moments leading up to it though- while the brain is still functioning, I'm perfectly prepared to believe it can conjure up all sorts of stuff- it does in dreams. I just hope then that I can move my mind off of dreadful thoughts like being punished in hell in the hopes that the experience is peaceful. Not sure that's possible though- considering I haven't even mastered lucid dreaming yet.

I have had dreams about my death actually. The majority were terrifying but one was absolutely blissful. Just a feeling of release that shortly, I wouldn't have anymore worries and nothing more to deal with. I REALLY hope it's like that.

 

[mjosjueiowl]

You have been non-existent for 13.7 billions of years. Being non-existent again will be just like that.

 

[Fadeawaaaay]

You turn to meat

 

[Mental]

I really hope death is fucking beautiful. I suffer from dissociations from reality, and I've been told to repeat if I've already died. And it's because I relive over and over the last moment before dissociation, of the person I was with. They're usually nice things, so I hope death is like living in a beautiful memory, I don't care about heaven, I know that doesn't exist, but I wish people could be happy.

 

[y'ffre]

Death looks very cool and beautiful until you have to face it for real.

 

[notlongnow]

Substanceless. Like turning off a light switch. Darkness awaits. Would be rad if there was a new journey after death though. Who knows. Kinda exciting really.

 

[Antinous]

Death is not an experience. The Krebs cycle stops. No metabolism = no consciousness = no experience.

 

[Winterreise]

No idea

 

[avoid_slow_death]

To me, my logical scientific mind believes that's its just peaceful. No sensory input, no survival instinct, no awareness, just quiet. That sounds like bliss to me.

The much smaller part of me that was once me likes to think we become pure energy and explore the universe alongside our loved ones for eternity in the highest state of bliss possible. But realistically that's merely a wistful fantasy, but a nice one nonetheless. Too bad it likely isn't true.

 

[Winterreise]

You have to ask the dead

 

[Howdiditcometothis?]

Do you remember the billions of years before you were alive? No.... Then you won't remember the billions of years when you're gone.

 

[gimzero]

Death is torture but what if we go in a dark hades and we never return back.

 

[niiina]

It doesn't feel like anything, once you're dead it's over, no consciousness anymore, only the nothing.

 

[nothingchanges]

All I see below is blue light. Peaceful and eternal. I'm holding my breath until my body throbs as one pulse. I roll over and suck in a deep lungful of warm air. I look up at the starry starry night. The sound of water in and out of my ears, and beyond this human shell, the sound of cicadas fills the night.
- Sarah Winman, Tin Man