Discussion What do you think happens to you when you die?

[VoidShiki19]

Are you spiritual and believe in an afterlife/reincarnation of sorts? Or the complete opposite and that your self juts ceases to exist

In regards to an afterlife, do you wish for it to be something of your own choice? If so, what would your ideal afterlife be?

 

[RepressedMind]

Just living this life makes me want to just cease to exist altogether. No afterlife, just to be safe I want to disappear forever.

 

[Soulless_Angel]

You Die? As in you be dead, nothing more nothing less?

My ideal after life, a home by the ocean, endless supply or rum, and all my bad memories erased

 

[Winston]

Billions of people with as many different views of death cancel each other out. We are animals and we cease to exist like a dead tiger or caterpillar. Sweet oblivion.

 

[mittensxx]

I've never been religious but all I can hope for is peace. I don't need to live forever in "paradise" I just want to escape this world and reality.

 

[KibblesNBits]

Ideally, I'd like to wake up to a reality preferable to this one, a reset button of sorts. Realistically, probably nothing. Just like before we're born.

 

[MaybeSoon]

I believe my conciousness is made possible by all the senses and electrical impulses in the brain. If I was born with absolutely no senses what would I think or know about the world right now? probably nothing as I wouldn't have learned a thing. I certainly wouldn't have ideas about religion or afterlife. So I'm guessing when none of those work there'll be nothing, just like before I was born.

However, the things I'm made of at a microscopic level will have to go somewhere. I saw a program on death and decay and they put a dead animal near some plants. They tested the plants and they had part of the animal in them.

 

[cant cry]

Most clinical death experiences are peaceful and happy to people who remember them...According to nurses and doctors who see many die up close. Also, a lot of people feel very peaceful right before they die and start talking to relatives who passed on already as if they were in the room with them.
I don't know if there's anything after this life, but if there is, I think it's more likely to be happy than not. Religion's made people fear death too much.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

Are you spiritual and believe in an afterlife/reincarnation of sorts? Or the complete opposite and that your self juts ceases to exist

In regards to an afterlife, do you wish for it to be something of your own choice? If so, what would your ideal afterlife be?

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." ~ Mark Twain

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour) "
~Nabokov

I was dead for 13.8 billion years and i didn't suffer then, no pain, no grief, no cancer, no suffering, not having to work or worry. I believe that's how it will be after death non-existence, nothingness as before i was born. That's not bad to me cause i hate hate pain. It's only when i became alive that the problems started.

 

[hakku]

I think your mind plays a vivid hallucination and then nothing.....I had a dream once where I shot myself and I remember feeling so happy and waking up in a room feeling amazing. and then I fucking woke up.

 

[The Dark Chaos]

I simplyy don't wannaa exist. Not in this life nor in the afterlife..

 

[Fish Face]

Your breath goes, your cells go, organs shut down, then aufweidersein goodbye. Just because you are a human doesn't mean you are anything more than an insect you would tread upon or a germ you would kill with disinfectant.

 

[KiraLittleOwl]

You wake up in your best life

Spoiler

just kidding

 

[xLosthopex]

I really hope nothing

 

[SpottedPanda]

My ideal afterlife is me living in a space station that has gravity, above the earth, with the power to conjure McDonald's, and sit and watch Parks And Recreation on repeat while I eat. I'd have access to the internet. I'd be perpetually twenty five. I've have perfect teeth and no susceptibility to disease. And I'd be able to conjure an exact replica of anyone on earth for an intimate partner or friendship, for as long as I chose to entertain them.

I know that seems oddly specific, but when I'm stressed I have an escapist fantasy, and it goes down exactly like that.

I personally think death is final, and it'll be like it was before I was born. The sun will still swallow the earth, Andromeda will still collide with The Milky Way, and the inevitable death of the entire universe will still occur, only I won't witness or know about any of it.

 

[Krash1990]

I believe we return home.
I read a beautiful story about reincarnation that said a child was in his home and looking out the window at everyone playing outside. His parent encouraged him to go play.
He skinned his knee bad and came back home crying and his parent took care of his wound and held him and comforted him. After he rested for a day or two he looked out again and saw everyone playing and decided to go back out but was scared. His parent comforted him and told him that even if he was hurt, he could always come back home to heal until he was ready to go back out and play and learn...

Id love of this life was all just a big play session and I get to come back after healing and try again.

Maybe next time I'll be granted a good life after having to live through this incredibly difficult one.

 

[Giraffey]

When I close my eyes and go to sleep, except for when I'm dreaming, I only ever know I've been asleep when I wake up. So each night as my conscious brain switches off, I experience a little preview of what death subjectively 'feels' like - the state of nothingness.

I know that for my method using an exit bag, first of all, I will experience either a blackout or a more gradual greyout and at this point, my conscious will still be active but functioning on a more primitive level. It's possible that I will experience a hallucination of life flashing before my eyes, re-live my favourite memories or intense emotions - perhaps I will experience the raw warmth and love I hold for a select few people in my life.

Eventually, I will begin to 'lose track' of those threads of thought and the actual moment of death itself will be more akin to 'forgetting to be alive', a lost thread of conscious thought that is simply never picked up again. I may be wrong of course, but that is the process as I understand it from my studies of neurology and consciousness. It may be a different process for different people or different methods.

I used to be terrified of death and that was a big reason for me not to CTB, but I honestly feel at peace now, and I'm actually calm about the process itself. If only the aftermath of my CTB was as reassuring and straightforward...

 

[PartingGlass]

Oh my god I hope its something. I'm so scared of it being nothing. Some people try to tell me that even if it is, I won't know it, but that's no comfort. I want it to be SOMETHING. I don't want this shitty life to be it.

 

[Deleted member 14386]

I think its nothing, like nothing nothing. No concept of time etc. Billions of years pass by in less than a second. Hopefully my DNA will be re-animated and I'll come back in a billion years or whatever. I don't hold much hope for that though lol

 

[Dead beat dad]

Are you spiritual and believe in an afterlife/reincarnation of sorts? Or the complete opposite and that your self juts ceases to exist

In regards to an afterlife, do you wish for it to be something of your own choice? If so, what would your ideal afterlife be?

I believe its the same as before you were born

 

[TheRaul95]

Life is a just a point of view :)

 

[letmeseethedeath]

i'm kinda having his same point of view even if i don't believe in it but i guess i need something to believe

 

[lostangel]

I don't know. There are hundreds of possibilities. I think I'm not going to believe in anything just going to wait and see.

 

[Starflow11]

From what I've come to understand is that our body expires but our consciousness transforms and we're immediately welcomed by our soul family. Supported and loved unconditionally in this dimension, ahhh it feels so good. :) We reflect upon on our experience here and decide whether we will come back to learn the lessons that we have originally come here to learn.
Maybe we decide that we've had enough on Earth and we experience another reality where we can further our soul's evolution.

 

[030366]

Billions of people with as many different views of death cancel each other out. We are animals and we cease to exist like a dead tiger or caterpillar. Sweet oblivion.

Exactly, this is it. Everything we are is inside our brains and once we die our brains stop working, thus everything we once were just ceases to exist forever. We aren't supernatural entities or beings whose consciousness can live on forever in another dimension (that might sound nice but it's nothing more than a fantasy) the hard reality is that we'll just disappear forever, now is this bad? Not at all, why? Cause you won't even know or notice. because once you are dead, you're nothing. Did any of us feel what it was like to live during the days of Alexander the great? or the Roman empire or the Civil War? Absolutely NO. Why? Simply because we didn't exist, we didn't feel a thing. I'll take that over having an immortal consciousness and being tormented for eternity in "hell" any day.

 

[Weightoftheworld]

I like to think, and hope, we just cease to exist. Like when someone faints, it just goes dark, only we don't wake back up.

 

[findinghappiness]

Probably one of my earliest memories and feeling. I still remember it clear as day. When I was very young I wanted to sleep forever and not wake up. So I always feel like it would be just that... black nothingness no memories nothing

 

[Shoopie]

I believe the world moves on without a care that you're no longer in it. I don't believe in God at all, nor anything else relating to an 'afterlife'.