Discussion what do you think happens after death, if anything?

[sirenangelbby]

so one of the reasons i'm kind of afraid to die is because i don't fully understand what happens after death. i can't comprehend how i could be alive, breathing, and conscious one moment and just gone the next. this sounds crazy, but i fear that i'll somehow "regret" it after i'm gone although i don't believe in heaven or hell. do you think it's just like nonexistence like how it was before i was born? i heard that general anesthesia is the closest thing to death and my experience with that is simply a period of no consciousness but of course i regained it after a while and didn't remember anything that happened.

 

[Lulzacruel]

I personally believe that it is either the true afterlife promised or nothingness, both are nice ideas to me.

 

[Bluebunnysky]

I'd say reincarnation seems most logical; Not in the sense of a "soul" transferring bodies but a more basic common sense interpretation. Our experience of self identity is produced by the brain so as long as other things keep being born there will be other beings experiencing their lives the same as we're doing now

 

[pinkribbonscars]

Though it's normal for SI to kick in. Even I have nagging doubts that I'm making the right decision and perhaps there's hope despite believing that death is a peaceful, unconscious non existence.

I struggled with that so much when I was younger that it's why I'm still here despite having suicidal thoughts since I was 13.

 

[Thanksforeverything]

I personally believe it's just nothingness or something akin to being in eternal darkness as only consciousness, the only part of you that isn't explained by modern science. However, I once spoke to an old woman who had unfortunately lost her 5-year-old daughter to an accident, and she said that she'd spoken to her daughter from the other side and that afterlife is the one thing that is misrepresented across every culture. There is no vengeful god or a superior being waiting to eternally punish you for all your sins, and your perspective on your existence simply changes. You don't disappear, you don't fade away, you just keep on existing in a different plane of existence and perceive things differently. I doubt her daughter actually was the one to tell her all this, but something about her explanation made it seem eerily real.

 

[jbear824]

I know what I would like to happen, what my preference is. But I honestly don't know if anything happens. It's not a question that can be answered by being alive.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

You go back to where you were before you were created - nothing. What made you is your mother's egg and your father's sperm. Without those two specific materials, you would not have come into being. You did not exist before the egg and sperm got together. There was no you. If a different sperm from your father would have impregnated the SAME egg from your mother (that the sperm that made you did in the first example), you would not be you as you are now, you would be an entirely different person. Same goes if a different egg from your mother was impregnated by the same sperm that impregnated the egg in the first example. Your parents created you. Or, more accurately, parts of them created you. After the creation, nurture and nature formed who you are. No divine intervention necessary.

Do you have any "memory" of before you were born? Of course not.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Really- no one knows. If anyone knew for sure, it would be the biggest news ever. All questions surrounding religion could be answered. Sorry that isn't any comfort!

All we really have is belief in whatever sounds the most plausible. I used to believe in heaven- because I was raised that way. So many family members died early on. It was probably supposed to comfort us. Now- I'm not entirely sure but I feel it more likely that there's just nothing. I certainly don't like the idea of there being a hell. So- if there is a heaven, why not a hell? And- if what we know about God is true- both from holy texts- and just looking at how this world was created to begin with- I think we should be worried! So yeah- I really just hope there's nothing now.

 

[Holu]

In my heart, I believe it's the exact same as before you were born… which is nothing.

That being said, I hold a person headcannon that before we die we see what we want to see. That's the only real explanation I have for the numerous people of different religions reporting seeing differing afterlife's following resuscitation. Well, that and the possibility they are lying to further push their religious agenda but let's not think about that.

 

[FuneralCry]

I very strongly believe we just completely cease existing after we leave this world and to me that is true peace, it's relief from the burden that is consciousness and it's safety
from suffering. Eternal non-existence is the only comfort for me.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

Where do I go away to every night during dreamless sleep? The consciousness goes away every night like a laptop being turned off.

Consciousness is just an illusion a simulation that runs in the brain .

Why do I do garbage things I don't want to?

Once the brain and brain stem dies a human stops existing forever.

People that have certain parts of their brain damaged are alive but not conscious.
After death is non-existence forever

 

[ThisIsLife]

https://www.youtube.com/@AfterlifeExperiences/featured

 

[Ambivalent1]

"so, happier than I had ever dared hoped to be, I dissolved again into that native infinity of crystal oblivion that the demon Life had called me for one brief and desolate hour."

 

[pinkribbonscars]

"so, happier than I had ever dared hoped to be, I dissolved again into that native infinity of crystal oblivion that the demon Life had called me for one brief and desolate hour."

Where is that from

 

[BoredomSeeker]

I'd say reincarnation seems most logical; Not in the sense of a "soul" transferring bodies but a more basic common sense interpretation. Our experience of self identity is produced by the brain so as long as other things keep being born there will be other beings experiencing their lives the same as we're doing now

This is what I've always believed, you experience your life as consciousness, as yourself. When you die, someone else will be born that also feels like themselves, and that in a sense would be you, although of course there is nothing tying you to this new person. No soul, no memories of a past life, nothing. Just the experience of existing.

 

[Homo erectus]

It is probably impossible to know the answer for sure. Even if someone travels back to tell the answer, it is impossible to tell if it is real, or hoax. Another possible medium is AI chat bot. But again it's all based on faith, whether you believe it or not.

 

[Ambivalent1]

Where is that from

Ex Oblivione by hp Lovecraft