Your perfect afterlife

[Seraphi]

I'd like to be able to forever observe the universe from the afterlife, even if I couldn't interfere with it.

[Zierro]

Reincarnation, I get to keep my personality traits.

 

Sounds like a lot of fun. I'd like to live in different time periods and different parts of the world, but with my same personality.

[Pirate_Felix]

Unlimited naked women, beer, food and good movies.

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[pennywise]

Reincarnation, I get to keep my personality traits.

 

Sounds like a lot of fun. I'd like to live in different time periods and different parts of the world, but with my same personality.

 

I like this idea.

[Will H]

Firstly, I'd like to explore the universe without being bound by physical laws, I'm curious about how the human race turns out. Then, I'd like to make my own world, because I'd like to answer a lot of 'What if?' questions too. Eternal conciousness would suck, but oblivion sounds worse.

[Zygimantas]

I would be fine with having my soul end, and I would stop existing. :mellow:

That is my ideal "afterlife", I really don't want to be alive forever. Cause you know, forever is a very long time :mellow:

[Retech]

I would be one of those people (like the ghosts of Christmas past, present, future) who would explore alternative realities (or other realities, if we're going with quantum mechanics). What if Al Gore was elected president? Or maybe, what if Hitler was dropped on his head as a baby? Those would be questions I'd love to find the meaning of.

[unkn0wnwarrior]

After that, I think I'd decide to create my own world. It would be fun, kinda like The Sims but on an epic scale.

This would be my first plan. Create a world, fill it with friends/family/strangers and then play around with the "settings".

 

Although ceasing to exist altogether is intriguing, too.

[anonymous1234]

I'd definitely want to just die when I die, and not have to deal with eternal existence. Otherwise, it would (quite literally) drive me insane.

[BlindBaker]

Honestly I'd just like to live my life all over again. I don't keep my memories or experiences or anything, I just live the exact same thing over again.

[The Observer]

Reincarnation is nice. :thumbup:

[Hawks]

I've always wanted reincarnation while retaining my memories and personality. So that'd be my first choice. I think it'd be interesting to watch the universe from beyond and see what really does happen as time goes on.

[Faux]

Honestly I'd just like to live my life all over again. I don't keep my memories or experiences or anything, I just live the exact same thing over again.

 

that's a nightmare

[toast647]

Smoking trees in Belize.

 

.....and copious amounts of whiskey, women, movies, food/munchies, and lots of fish.

[aquariusman]

I'm born again, but in a different universe. I wouldn't keep my memories though. This cycle would just keep on repeating itself.

 

Either that or I'm reborn, just in the same universe. But that isn't the afterlife, is it? I'd even settle for just reliving my life over and over again, maybe even with throwing in the chance of going through every possibility. Still no memories from past lives though.

[EarthySun]

Reincarnation would be cool. Or a brief moment of knowing and understanding everything, and then ceasing to exist.

Eternal consciousness scares the [cabbage] out of me.

 

I, for one, would certainly want eternal consciousness. I'd want to be able to live and interact and influence civilizations and culture and ideals. I don't know why, but it's always appealed to me -- staying alive and being kind of cloak-and-daggers, behind the scenes, and be an important player without anybody realizing it except me.

 

I'd live forever, of course, but I'd change form to fit. :P I'd have a (human) form that would last for one lifetime, then be reborn into another one while retaining my memories and all that. Also, I'd want to never be able to forget any memory that I would've acquired, and would want there to be no way to destroy my consciousness. If humans ceased to exist, I'd stop taking a human form and be kind of a giant flying hawk-shark-god that shot lasers and generally amused himself until another intelligent species developed.

[Range_This11]

I don't want an afterlife. I want to die and never come back. A lifespan is a lot longer than you think. It would suck to go through it twice.

[anonymous1234]

Also, I'd want to never be able to forget any memory that I would've acquired, and would want there to be no way to destroy my consciousness.

Impossible. Unless you believe in magic, that's a completely contradictory statement.

[Skeptical]

I've had a bit of a hard time accepting the premise, but when you get down to it, it's a pretty interesting question.

 

I would want somewhere outside, (without mosquitoes, but in such a way as to not disturb the ecology), and a library including a printing press that can print any book ever written, along with writing materials and the ability to conference and share ideas with the greatest dead minds. Food is an interest as well, although seeing as that's a pleasure of the flesh as much of the mind, would it be considered food in any meaningful way?

 

Really, I'm fascinated by the idea of being able to continue developing my intellect long after my physical form has failed me.

 

As a militant atheist, however, I'll settle for a comfortable hole with a tree planted over me, and a party in celebration of my life.

[Alg]

You really wouldn't need food seeing as there's no body to sustain, though.

[Skeptical]

You really wouldn't need food seeing as there's no body to sustain, though.

 

I've got to wonder though: with some form of physical manifestation, can we even cope with our own existence?

[michel555555]

I don't like the idea of a permanent after life. Can you imagine being "alive" forever? What would you do after a couple of millenia.

 

Personally i'd much rather have some form or reincarnation. Since technically all our souls are is just random brain chemistry there is a chance that someone could be born who has the exact same thought process as you. And if they are raised just right then they would essentailly be you. Thus you could reincarnated in a new body and experiance life all over again.

 

That or have the option of being a ghost... eternity could be fun if you can annoy other people for all that time :thumbsup:

[fastortoise]

I wouldn't mind nothingness. I'm already sick of myself as is, I just really don't like thinking about nothingness. I'm not worried that I wouldn't enjoy nothingness (after all, there's nothing to perceive or anything to do the perceiving), it's just that I'd never be able to experience it even after I die. Which is pretty cool if you think about it.