What happens to human consciousness after death?

[Roadkill]

I hope it's eternal nothingness, but I'm scared it's something else

 

[311]

I hope it's eternal nothingness, but I'm scared it's something else

Eternal oblivion shouldnt be scary but it kinda is.

 

[Minudah]

Why would the experimenters waste resources on giving us consciousness after death? They didn't care about us enough to not use us as lab rats for their torture experiment. The experimenters are evil and they're out to harm us in every way they can

 

[Roadkill]

Eternal oblivion shouldnt be scary but it kinda is.

I agree

 

[Sirroscoe]

I like Alan watts take on this. He says something along the lines of "you can't have an experience of nothing."

 

[Roadkill]

I'm scared that there is something after death based on personal experience... I took care of my elderly mother for 17 years, she lived in the room above me, my room was in the basement... when she was alive, the floor made a creaking sound when she would walk to the bathroom in the morning...

then, for about a month after she died, I would hear that exact same creaking noise at about 6 in the morning(the time she used to get up)... after that month, I never heard the sound again.. it kind of scares me that there could be an afterlife of some sort

 

[Final_frontier]

Why would the experimenters waste resources on giving us consciousness after death? They didn't care about us enough to not use us as lab rats for their torture experiment. The experimenters are evil and they're out to harm us in every way they can

I think the universe is indifferent, neither hostile nor benovelent. If not, why are most people "happy"? I think it all comes down to dumb luck. If you're unlucky enough to be among the minority to contract a terrible mental or physical illness or some other tragedy in your life, them you're doomed to suffer.

 

[FTL.Wanderer]

I'm scared that there is something after death based on personal experience... I took care of my elderly mother for 17 years, she lived in the room above me, my room was in the basement... when she was alive, the floor made a creaking sound when she would walk to the bathroom in the morning...

then, for about a month after she died, I would hear that exact same creaking noise at about 6 in the morning(the time she used to get up)... after that month, I never heard the sound again.. it kind of scares me that there could be an afterlife of some sort

If you ever want to talk with someone else who took care of their mother for a long while before she died, please send me a private message. I've never had the chance to share that experience with others. It might be mutually therapeutic. Anyway, best to you.

 

[TAW122]

I'm guessing there would be no feeling, just as if one was never born, or the time before one is conceived. Then again, I'm an atheist so I don't believe in a God or supreme being out there watching over us. I think our conscious is a collection of chemical reactions occurring inside our brains.

 

[Roadkill]

If you ever want to talk with someone else who took care of their mother for a long while before she died, please send me a private message. I've never had the chance to share that experience with others. It might be mutually therapeutic. Anyway, best to you.

I don't usually send private messages, but I can say one thing... I have not gotten over her death even though it was almost 2 years ago(she died in early March 2017).. in fact, her death is what made me suicidal... I really want to see her again in "heaven" or some sort of afterlife, but I have the fear if I commit suicide, that I will be condemned to an eternal hell

 

[FTL.Wanderer]

I don't usually send private messages, but I can say one thing... I have not gotten over her death even though it was almost 2 years ago(she died in early March 2017).. in fact, her death is what made me suicidal... I really want to see her again in "heaven" or some sort of afterlife, but I have the fear if I commit suicide, that I will be condemned to an eternal hell

My mom died when I was in college. I was her caretaker. Many years later, I still see/hear/feel the horror. It eviscerated my life. Nothing makes up for it. Worse, the hell of seeing the extended death in great detail terrifies me about my own death/suicide. I'm preoccupied with going instantly so there's no time for any emotional or physical pain.

Sorry in addition to everything else you have to deal with a fear of hell. I don't know what the solutions are. :/

 

[Roadkill]

My mom died when I was in college. I was her caretaker. Many years later, I still see/hear/feel the horror. It eviscerated my life. Nothing makes up for it. Worse, the hell of seeing the extended death in great detail terrifies me about my own death/suicide. I'm preoccupied with going instantly so there's no time for any emotional or physical pain.

Sorry in addition to everything else you have to deal with a fear of hell. I don't know what the solutions are. :/

I understand completely... I feel the same way

 

[ShadowOfTheDay]

I hope it's eternal nothingness, but I'm scared it's something else

Any earthly being who purports to know the answer to your question is a charlatan and a liar. By definition, it is not possible for physically restricted beings to know what (if anything) awaits us after death. Could be eternal torment, or eternal bliss, something in-between, or nothing at all.

 

[deathbycakes]

I don't usually send private messages, but I can say one thing... I have not gotten over her death even though it was almost 2 years ago(she died in early March 2017).. in fact, her death is what made me suicidal... I really want to see her again in "heaven" or some sort of afterlife, but I have the fear if I commit suicide, that I will be condemned to an eternal hell

i can really relate to this, but in my case its my SO that i want to see again. i hope we both can get what we hope for

 

[Minudah]

I think the universe is indifferent, neither hostile nor benovelent. If not, why are most people "happy"? I think it all comes down to dumb luck. If you're unlucky enough to be among the minority to contract a terrible mental or physical illness or some other tragedy in your life, them you're doomed to suffer.

I don't know what the universe is like, I've only been in the simulation. The hackers told me all about the experiment, and the experimenters show their real intentions through their actions. Everything they do is to harm lab rats. Harming lab rats is like food to experimenters, except it's what every moment of their revolve around. They created this experiment to see what happens when they torture lab rats. They want all of us to suffer, and they made lab rats so attack each other and not the experimenters. Then the lab rats think is "love", in reality it's Stockholm syndrome. Everyone has intentions to hurt others and they're evil

 

[EvilForProfit]

We don't know, we haven't even pinpointed or measured what consciousness is or been able to prove it's entirely a product of the brain although it's very likely. No one knows, and knowing wouldn't change what actually does happen. As someone obsessed with astrophysics it's easy to respect the universe and not underestimate it, it's truly fucking incredible even if being a human sucks a lot of the time. I tend to lean towards something happening after death, but I do not count on it or believe in it.

 

[Kyrok]

When neurons stop firing, you cease to be.

 

[I am ___________]

Whatever is after this, it can't be any more worse then being in this shit show. I got my hopes on:
A)Nothingness.
B) I can be reborn in a mmorpg world/game world.
C) I regain my memories and power as a god and never go back to being a mortal or being born in the mortal realms.
D) I can hit the delete button on the universe and all of existence and I do hit the button
E) I fight god or whoever the thing is that is responsible and free humanity from suffering

 

[Hoid]

Watching several grandparents with Alzheimer's slowly be stripped, layer by layer of everything that made them the people they used to be has made me a firm disbeliever in any kind of permanent soul or essence. We are our brains. When they start to break down we lose our identities. And when they die, we will just be gone.

 

[odette]

Remember how you felt all those years before you were conceived? That's how you'll feel when you die.

 

[Edrudd]

I think it will be dark and you won't feel anything anymore

 

[Circles]

Eternal oblivion shouldnt be scary but it kinda is.

It's not even eternal oblivion. It would literally be like the back of your head, just the lack of anything. Eternal implies the concept of time which you'll lose and you wouldn't even know you're dead. Just lights out like anesthesia as simple as that. Scary sure but more comforting than any other scenario.

 

[Sickman75]

I hope it's eternal nothingness, but I'm scared it's something else

Why would you wish for eternal nothingness when there could be a whole new world, dimensions,life,here after, re creation, heaven, Utopia, Nirvana all of some sort?
Wouldn't you want to think that there is instead of nothing? The possibility could be endless and you just want eternal nothing. I don't get it.

 

[Philip]

Why would you wish for eternal nothingness when there could be a whole new world, dimensions,life,here after, re creation, heaven, Utopia, Nirvana all of some sort?
Wouldn't you want to think that there is instead of nothing? The possibility could be endless and you just want eternal nothing. I don't get it.

I personally hope that there is something peaceful after we die, but I have huge doubts.

 

[Kikoo Loool]

I personally hope that there is something peaceful after we die, but I have huge doubts.

Do you consider that "nothing" is something peaceful?

 

[Sickman75]

I personally hope that there is something peaceful after we die, but I have huge doubts.

Well I don't blame you for having doubts. It's my last hope at salvation. I really hope there is something that exists outside of this world.

 

[Philip]

Do you consider that "nothing" is something peaceful?

If the alternative to nothing is hell, then most definitely

 

[throwaway123]

Nothing. That's it. You can't experience nothing so nothing to worry about.

I must admit it's a scary thought but if you really want to die you should just accept it.

 

[Quinlor]

It's easy, if you think that our conscience keep a live somewhere after died, imagine how much conscience there is wandering around, because a lot people pass away everyday. The answer is no, you just cease to exist.

 

[Roberto]

Probably it is like before our birth : nothing. No thoughts, no life, no nothing.
Think about it ... if the world ended. Where the 'souls' could go to test our life? The world will end one day, but we won't be here to see it.

It is so difficult to accept, imagine the no conscious being ... But sometimes, that is what I want.