What do you think happens when we Die

[darkace21]

Like many others, I think we just decompose. But I too kinda hope for an afterlife, that or reincarnation. It's mildy disturbing to me that it may be true that we just die and nothing more happens.

[Warrior_B666]

I believe that life is just a dream and when we die, we wake up in another world as a different person.

[dragoonson]

Based on deeds we do,we can become demons or angels.If we were truly neutral we become higher beings,like dragons or something.

 

 

 

Seriously though,I'm Chinese and have to say,the idea of reincarnation is a little tough for me to buy,and in fact,none of the religious ones interest me...I think its just eternal darkness,personally.Kind of scary...

[BlueLancer]

Dig up a grave or work at a morgue to find out.

 

 

 

Metaphysically? ... Think before you were born. It's nothing. Pitch black. Because if you're not alive to percieve something with your brains, you don't have a consciousness.

 

 

 

Your individual consciousness somehow escaping your brain into another universe filled with clouds and perfect serenity sounds absurdly unrealistic to me, but maybe some people want comfort before dying.

[Lenticular_J]

I hate when people think nothing's going to happen. That's a depressing way to live your life, considering odds are you'll believe nothing is worth doing since you'll just end up like that. So why not believe the truth? We all know what it is: We're going to wake up riding dinosaurs when we die. There will be velociraptor jousts and whatnot. But there will be no clothes to be worn at any time!

 

 

 

Ah, dear Lord, what a Heaven thou hast brought upon Thy Creations. :

[BlueLancer]

I hate when people think nothing's going to happen. That's a depressing way to live your life, considering odds are you'll believe nothing is worth doing since you'll just end up like that.

 

 

 

You can still have plenty of meaningful things in your life even if you don't blindly believe in some ridiculous fabricated story.

 

 

 

Going by rational analysis, saying "there wont be more than 3.5 goals in this match" regarding football would be a depressing way of following sports to a hopeful person/fan. But if it's the most likely scenario, why not just accept it? Some people make a living by choosing the most probable outcome, not just in sports, but stock markets, oil futures, etc..

 

 

 

If it applies to those scenarios, why not also apply it to death? The most likely, and assumed scenario is that your body decomposes, and the electrical current in your brain dies, thus you'll no longer feel or sense anything. There's no actual, reproducable proof to the contrary (which isn't even possible to obtain, at least yet)

[anonymous1234]

I hate when people think nothing's going to happen. That's a depressing way to live your life, considering odds are you'll believe nothing is worth doing since you'll just end up like that. So why not believe the truth? We all know what it is: We're going to wake up riding dinosaurs when we die. There will be velociraptor jousts and whatnot. But there will be no clothes to be worn at any time!

 

 

 

Ah, dear Lord, what a Heaven thou hast brought upon Thy Creations. :

 

And...everything is made of fudge. That is true heaven

[Tim_Finch]

I always thought about it, and what I believed was the whole nothingness thing, and that we'd somehow be conscious of it. I know that our brains would be non-functional, but how else could we perceive it? Our brain would be dead, so there'd be no dreams. Not thinking anything at all would pretty much be the same thing; we'd be suffering an eternity of waiting in the void. That would be the real Hell, not some underground cavern with fire with horned demons in black capes.

 

 

 

I later figured that I might as well convince myself that anything will happen, absolutely anything that my mind can conceive, and I won't be able to prove myself wrong after I die. Things such as:

 

 

 

I hate when people think nothing's going to happen. That's a depressing way to live your life, considering odds are you'll believe nothing is worth doing since you'll just end up like that. So why not believe the truth? We all know what it is: We're going to wake up riding dinosaurs when we die. There will be velociraptor jousts and whatnot. But there will be no clothes to be worn at any time!

 

 

 

Ah, dear Lord, what a Heaven thou hast brought upon Thy Creations. :

 

 

 

Death is the reward of life.

[Evaluate]

I was actually just thinking about this topic last night. As much as I would love to believe there is a place where everyone is happy with one another and peace reigns, my sense of reality wants to believe otherwise. I think it will end as a few people have said, nothing before, nothing after.

 

 

 

This also brings to mind near death experiences. People say they see the hand of "God," but that seems a little cliche to me. I think they are just dreaming, but hey, who knows?

[sonerohi]

Well, I saw an interesting theory about how after a finite time, the big boom will be the collapse of the universe, destroying everything made by the big bang. The theory then goes on to state the big bang will happen again, kinda of like if you push water from end of the bath tub down, thats the world growing as it reaches the limit, it gets pushed back and collapses the world. It then reverses again to where it grows. The theorist beleives these events will continue to happen and people will continue to live the same life over and over and over without ever realising it.

 

 

 

I myself believe it's just the great big nap in the dirt. I can't really see how we could have any sort of afterlife without everyone going insane.

[reaper88888]

Depending on our will, our bodies are either buried in the ground/in a stone closet to rot, or they are burnt to ashes and kept on a shelf until the kid next door finds them and thinks that they are chocolate milk mix.

 

 

 

 

 

If we had some sort of deep emotion or regret at the time of our death, our mental energy might become imprinted onto the world. In cases of weaker emotion, we leave nothing more than an imprint, an image that doesn't sense and can't respond to the changing environment. In cases of stronger emotion before death, the impression of our mental energy is somewhat stronger, and we can percieve and, to a limited extent, interact with the world, essentially becoming what people refer to as ghosts. Of course, in the vast majority of cases we just stop. Everything goes away. Our minds, our souls , cease to exist. And that is why religion is so popular. It says 'Don't worry, when you die, you'll live forever or be reincarnated!'. You won't. You will end. Everything you have ever experienced will drain away. You will not exist in any shape or form. Almost (If my theory is correct..) all of us will. One of the most fascinating things to me is the human denial of death. We can't imagine it, so we try not to think about it.

[Koo]

The same as before we were born, nothingness! :lol:

[Lenin64]

I think time goes in a circle rather than a line.

 

That is why clocks are round :P

 

 

 

I think death is just nothing. Like going to sleep, you have no senses of anything, except here it never ends.

[coza_17]

TBH I don't think anything happens :?. Although it's still hard for me to assume that, I don't have any other thoughts that make sense. Weird, I know.

[mrpez]

you never know what happens. maybe when you die and are reincarnated (im not a buddhist by the way), but you have no recollection of a past life.

[Lenticular_J]

Yeah, I tend to think whatever happens is what you want to happen. Maybe it is all just a dream. So? Not like you can complain. You're dead. So take that.

[meol]

O brave new world that hath such people in't!

 

 

 

The physicist in me tells me I'll lose consciousness, my body will decompose and that the world will go on, but something inside me tells there is some kind of cycle around. Day and night, Big Bang and -possibly- Big Crunch. If I was any religious, I'd be a Buddhist, but I still can't wholly believe in it.

[RSBDavid]

[hide=my belief]We go to a waiting room like area, then wait for wether we go to Heaven or Hell[/hide]

 

 

 

Friends belief:

 

 

 

Steps:

 

 

 

1. We get burried

 

2. we are teleported by divine beings to a blackhole where we are about the size of 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th of a pin head.

 

 

 

3. A spirit will show us a flashback of our good things of our lives.

 

 

 

4. If we have more bad things, then we are sent back to earth and expanded into a huuman/animal. If we are good, we are sent to a divine island land were we can prosper.

 

 

 

Not made up, it is what he really thinks.

[The Dark Lord]

That's the most creative and original idea about the afterlife I've seen so far... Start a religion, I hear it's goood money!

[anonymous1234]

[hide=my belief]We go to a waiting room like area, then wait for wether we go to Heaven or Hell[/hide]

 

 

 

Friends belief:

 

 

 

Steps:

 

 

 

1. We get burried

 

2. we are teleported by divine beings to a blackhole where we are about the size of 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th of a pin head.

 

 

 

3. A spirit will show us a flashback of our good things of our lives.

 

 

 

4. If we have more bad things, then we are sent back to earth and expanded into a huuman/animal. If we are good, we are sent to a divine island land were we can prosper.

 

 

 

Not made up, it is what he really thinks.

 

Why an island? I would prefer a cruise ship tbh

[Lenticular_J]

I hope it isn't a hot, naked spirit. I'm pretty sure that would throw my bad things over the edge, if thoughts counted.

[warri0r45]

Nothing, probably. As people have said, think of what it was like before you were born.

 

 

 

All the more reason to enjoy the life you have now, I say.

[J a m e s]

I like to think there's so sort of afterlife. Maybe one that relates no no specific religion, making them all right or wrong (depending on how you look at it). Wouldn't we all look like fools if we all got to "Heaven" only to find that fighting between religions was worthless.

 

 

 

I also like the idea of an endless dream state. I enjoy sleeping just for my dreams so spending eternity living in my dreams would be a treat as good as Heaven ;)

 

 

 

I think that the ultimate torture would be to live forever. Heaven and/or an endless dream state would be absolute torture. Life would serve no purpose because there is no end and no motivation to do anything.

 

 

 

Sex would be dull after a few years, chocolate would start tasting bland, and video games would become boring. How is an infinite length of existence NOT torture?

 

 

 

Don't you think you'd run out of things to dream about over an infinite amount of time?

[Princess Viola]

We go to the abode of the damned...the damned good looking! :D

[warri0r45]

I like to think there's so sort of afterlife. Maybe one that relates no no specific religion, making them all right or wrong (depending on how you look at it). Wouldn't we all look like fools if we all got to "Heaven" only to find that fighting between religions was worthless.

 

 

 

I also like the idea of an endless dream state. I enjoy sleeping just for my dreams so spending eternity living in my dreams would be a treat as good as Heaven ;)

 

 

 

I think that the ultimate torture would be to live forever. Heaven and/or an endless dream state would be absolute torture. Life would serve no purpose because there is no end and no motivation to do anything.

 

 

 

Sex would be dull after a few years, chocolate would start tasting bland, and video games would become boring. How is an infinite length of existence NOT torture?

 

 

 

Don't you think you'd run out of things to dream about over an infinite amount of time?

 

 

 

Pretty much mirrors my view on eternal existence.