Discussion What does your afterlife look like to you, or do you not want one?

[Some place nice]

my afterlife would look like my 4 children playing while we sit in a meadow on a cool sunny day. I look over to see my brother in law and his wife playing with their baby. Than I realise that I'm in my husbands lap with his arms around me holding my hands. I can feel him resting his head on mine so I look up and see that his eyes are closed. it looks like I interrupted him in a trance when I moved. We share a kiss and I lean into his chest and close my eyes. I think to myself "this is where I am meant to be." All those people are not alive in this world but, I lay in bed all day in that world where I am actually happy. That is what my afterlife would look like. Me in that world. I would love to hear what your afterlife would look like to your if you believe in one.

 

[iamsofkntired]

my afterlife would look like my 4 children playing while we sit in a meadow on a cool sunny day. I look over to see my brother in law and his wife playing with their baby. Than I realise that I'm in my husbands lap with his arms around me holding my hands. I can feel him resting his head on mine so I look up and see that his eyes are closed. it looks like I interrupted him in a trance when I moved. We share a kiss and I lean into his chest and close my eyes. I think to myself "this is where I am meant to be." All those people are not alive in this world but, I lay in bed all day in that world where I am actually happy. That is what my afterlife would look like. Me in that world. I would love to hear what your afterlife would look like to your if you believe in one.

Also how i imagine mine , with the person I lost in our own personal heaven. I know it doesn't makes sense but at least there's a chance .

 

[FuneralCry]

I could never ever want one and I don't believe that one exists anyway. I only wish to permanently cease existing, to me only nothingness is perfection, any kind of existence will always be undesirable and unnecessary. The thought of falling into a dreamless sleep for all eternity comforts me, in fact the only relief could ever lie in the eternal end to all suffering.

 

[letmejoindeath]

Being with my wife and kids forever.

Maybe time is a made up construct and when we die we live in that last moment of dmt release for eternity. Going to pretend I'm successful with a family and people like me.

 

[Rational man]

I believe we become part.of.the natural world once more. We.turn.to.dust. It.really is.a beautiful thought.that my.dust will help.a tree grow new life and providing humankind doesnt destroy the planet.in these brutal times, My.dust will be launched into the.galaxies beyond.when our planet eventually implodes in billions.of Years time.

 

[Lookoutbelow]

Nothing or reincarnation 50/50.

 

[DT2007]

I believe strongly in reincarnation so no afterlife for me.

 

[WAITING TO DIE]

Definitely no afterlife for me : I've had my fill with this one.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

I believe a human ceases to exist forever after death. So there is no afterlife nor reincarnation of any kind in my belief system. That's the best thing to me because in non-existence forever there is no chance of me ever suffering or feeling extreme pain ever. To me non-existence is the ultimate bliss. It will be like before I was born when i had no problems , no worries , didn't want nor need for anything.

 

[leavingsoon99]

I only want an afterlife if it's going to be better for me. Save that, I'd rather not exist at all. I honestly believe that taking my life will empower me. I dictate when I go, and take myself out of the existence machine. I create a ripple in the flow of whatever this is. Therefore, I gain power over myself. Furthermore, I don't think there's a penalty for that. If there is, then oh well. But, I want a better afterlife for me. I would REALLY love to create my own afterlife. That would be so nice. All I know is that it won't be THIS. And that's enough for me.

 

[Orbitc]

I don't believe in this and really hope that it will be like a blackout - my brain will die and the world will cease to exist for me.

 

[GreenMarsh]

I've shared it before, but I'll never get tired of it, because I think my ideal after life is awesome:

I want to exists in an afterlife, not a living world, but a world were all intelligent life from across the universe comes to gather after they die. I'd imagine it like a massive, autonomous city were all the basic needs of its citizenship are taken care of for eternity. Ideally, with nothing to do but to wait in eternity, the denizens of this place dedicate their existence to creating art and consuming it, that way, no one ever gets bored. There would be an infinite amounts of things to consume from cultures all around the vast, infinite universe. I could even hang out with my friends eventually, or make new ones. It's as utopian as it can be

 

[bigdipper420]

I would hope for peace and the same for everyone else here

 

[Mvrd3rz]

I don't want one I just want to disappear completely, I want all of this to end and just be gone no more anything I just can't imagine dying but still kinda existing.

 

[Bunny Beanie]

This is gonna sound so corny but I'm hoping I get to live in a really cool world. Surrounded my talking animals that people don't hurt. Aliens live amongst us normally. Give me super powers!! Make me water bend like the avatar! Make me into Link from Legend of Zelda (actually make me Midna). I just want something not mundane and not hopeless. I want to feel special. I want to feel important. Like I matter! I want something where everyday is something to look forward to. I want to feel excited.

 

[Epikur]

I do not expect anything but a vast black void. Death is nothing we will live to see. There is no subject any more. No memories, no feelings, no perceptions. Just as it was before birth. Nothingness. Why should this be so bad? The idea of a heaven or similar things seems to me a projection of people who can´t let go of their pitiful little egos. We come from nothing and we go to nothing, so what have we lost? Nothing ! (Monty Python). Do you really want to stay with your ancestors until ... what? Eternity? Phew, that would be hell.

 

[Grave]

I do not believe in any form of the afterlife, and if there was one then I would think I have failed in my ctb

 

[ThisIsLife]

Unlike many people here, i believe in an afterlife; call it hope, i call it going back home.

I lost my only child in December last year, he was 15. I wake up every day extremely depressed, and disappointed i didn't die in my sleep, because i wish i could be with him.

My idea of the afterlife; the way i see it, is a place where we could find peace and our loved ones. As a matter of fact, i only care about being with my son forever.

But i have one fear unlocked since he died: if i was wrong and there's no afterlife, then it will be as if he died a second time because my memories of him are the only thing i have left and it would die with me.
I'm terrified about that and it's the reason why i just can't help but try to live another day while i think about killing myself all along, and the idea of "nothingness" is everything but helpful to my suffering.

I want "life" to continue on the other side because of my love for my son. If it didn't it would be hell.

 

[stuckinfiction]

Nothingness. Empty. I don't exist anymore and feel no more pain

 

[Darkover]

eternal oblivion