What happens after death?

[fightclub17]

I would love to hear people's opinions on what happens after death.

 

[kurgan]

Back to eternal nothingness once again.

 

[geepeedee]

Nothing. Awareness ceases. There's nothing after brain death.

 

[scentoflavender]

i would really like for it to be nothing... just peace

 

[hurb]

The same thing that happens when u sleep.
Time just goes by

 

[Kamaainakupua]

Decomposition.
I grew up in a lot of different churches, and about the only thing all of them had in common was decomposing corpses in the graveyards behind them. All the rest was debated, twisted, distorted and then shoved down my throat as incotrovertible, irrefutable truth. Go down the block and a different truth was being forced down someone else's throat.
And yes, not all churches are like that, but the ones grabbing the headlines and the checks have to, in order to maintain control and stay bankrolled. Those garden plots aren't cheap.
I've spent a lot of time in graveyards, walking in the gardens of stone. The peace I feel there is not a spiritual connection to a loving God, it is the peace of souls departed, leaving empty husks to feed the worms. The cycle of life includes death, and we feed the next generation by dying.

 

[Matchaaa]

A return to eternal nothingness… eternal peace.
probably a blankness similar to the time before I was born. No memories, no sensations.

 

[Fadenself00]

either eternal nothingness, or reincarnation because infinity is a long time and we don't know how consciousness works in this universe.

 

[fightclub17]

I see eternal nothingness similar to being under anesthesia. You're not aware of it, nor the time. You wake up in what feels like an instant only to find out 12 hours passed by.

We are only conscious because of our brains. When we die we become one with eternal nothingness for what could be a million years but won't experience it as anything or any time, until we're spawned again into life. Where or what that life will be is the ultimate question.

 

[itsgone2]

either eternal nothingness, or reincarnation because infinity is a long time and we don't know how consciousness works in this universe.

Reincarnation is terrifying

 

[Shadows From Hell]

Nothing. You will just be a speck of dust in a mass universe.

 

[Fadenself00]

Where or what that life will be is the ultimate question

Maybe we "switch over" right into the nearest consciousness producing thing aka. brains. From the subjective viewpoint it would then make sense to experience everything right from birth/the start of that "thing" (similar to 'was the universe created last week' thought experiment), because in this deterministic model, the "consciousness-viewer" is entirely seperate from any physical interaction, meaning that for the physical brain, nothing has changed, so you would subjectively have to experience everything from the start, because the entire memory of time related to your memories, is a sort of memory as well.

 

[Zura]

will let you know once i die
tho i hope its just nothingness like we just stop existing like what was there before birth

 

[FuneralCry]

I only believe death to be the peace of non-existence where this torturous existence I just always saw as the most terrible, cruel mistake is finally all gone and forgotten which is all I hope for.

All I want is to be unconscious of this existence that just causes all this cruelty, harm suffering and torture with no limit as to how much agony one can feel, for me non-existence is just all that's positive, I'll only be at peace once I'm no longer burdened with this terrible, torturous existence, all I wish and hope for is to never suffer again, I just want peace from the torture of existing.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I'm hoping for nothing. I don't fancy being dragged into another reality without my consent.

 

[raemysteryO]

Just like before we were born, nothing.

 

[uselessmanz]

I see eternal nothingness similar to being under anesthesia. You're not aware of it, nor the time. You wake up in what feels like an instant only to find out 12 hours passed by.

We are only conscious because of our brains. When we die we become one with eternal nothingness for what could be a million years but won't experience it as anything or any time, until we're spawned again into life. Where or what that life will be is the ultimate question.

It could be a lot better or a lot worse than what we live in today…that's the game we play when we CTB

 

[fightclub17]

It could be a lot better or a lot worse than what we live in today…that's the game we play when we CTB

This is what's most terrifying.

 

[uchiha_sasuke]

This is what's most terrifying.

Even certain death is like russian roulette lol

 

[RedFruit]

All I know is that I'm scared of whatever's next. Being born was a fucking death sentence in itself.

 

[aesthetic]

i don't know.

 

[heiwa2]

It's just non existence. Feels the same as before you were born, complete nothingness. I believe it's only the process of dying that can be painful apart from that through non existence one can achieve absence of any kind of suffering.

 

[Macedonian1987]

I hope you'll forgive me if this comes across the wrong way, as I truly have the deepest respect for everyone's perspective here. I'm honestly just a bit overwhelmed—and perhaps a little surprised—to see such a large number of people who believe death is the absolute end. I only say this because I used to have the same belief ; it took the profound experience of an NDE during my surgery to completely shift my belief. After my NDE I firmly believe that there is some sort of existence after death.

 

[fightclub17]

I hope you'll forgive me if this comes across the wrong way, as I truly have the deepest respect for everyone's perspective here. I'm honestly just a bit overwhelmed—and perhaps a little surprised—to see such a large number of people who believe death is the absolute end. I only say this because I used to have the same belief ; it took the profound experience of an NDE during my surgery to completely shift my belief. After my NDE I firmly believe that there is some sort of existence after death.

What did you experience during your NDE?

 

[departedfreedom]

Death ends biological functions instantly—heart stops, brain activity ceases, body cools and decomposes predictably. Beliefs vary: religions promise afterlife judgment or rebirth; science sees likely nothingness, with NDEs as brain phenomena.

 

[Macedonian1987]

What did you experience during your NDE?

During my near-death experience, the chronic knee pain I had suffered for years completely vanished. I was undergoing surgery for a torn meniscus and had opted for general anesthesia, but complications caused me to stop breathing. In this state, I encountered a woman who had taken her own life only days before. Although she had struggled with severe depression in her final years, she now radiated peace and positive energy. She assured me she was in a good place and requested that I deliver this message to her children and their father.

 

[fightclub17]

Beliefs vary: religions promise afterlife judgment or rebirth; science sees likely nothingness, with NDEs as brain phenomena.

If there's judgement in the afterlife I'm screwed

In this state, I encountered a woman who had taken her own life only days before. Although she had struggled with severe depression in her final years, she now radiated peace and positive energy. She assured me she was in a good place and requested that I deliver this message to her children and their father.

Sounds like your brain releasing a massive surge of DMT.

 

[DeadManLiving]

Nothing

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

The thing about nothing is you don't perceive time passing. As said above, forever is a long time and the universe already produced my consciousness once. It would seem that some kind of skip forward were possible. That said, if your memory is destroyed, it's not really continuous.

 

[camswithincams]

I would love to hear people's opinions on what happens after death.

I think theres some kind of place beyond. Not quite the xtian ideal of Heaven, persei, but there is a place to see people who have passed before and after you. The beyond, i think, is like a never-ending place of comfort before you choose to return to the cycle. Clay is to pottery as life is to death. A part of the journey, a cycle.

Think about it like how we use chalk. Chalk is made from bones of sea creatures, turned fine and powdery over time and compression. We use chalk to find and share meaning, on blackboards and sidewalks alike. Then it washes away into dust, and returns to the earth in a different form.

I dont know man, my beliefs are Weird. I just think theres both something, and nothing, but we cant percieve it. Schrodingers cat style.