What comes after death?

At the risk of sounding like a heretic:

Throughout my own (quite extensive at this point) research into the matter - it's suggested across countless near-death testimonies (from the theist and atheist alike), religious/spiritual texts (spanning a myriad of different faiths from Ancient Egyptian to Hinduism to Christianity, etc), and channeled works (Seth, Bashar, etc) that you will continue on after death. It is nothing to be feared.

Most commonly? You get to hang around a bit in whatever situation you believe results after death. Some examples:

If you believe you're going to a Christian Heaven? You'll enjoy floating around in unchanging eternal bliss..until you realize how incredibly boring it is and come around.
If, instead, you believe you're going to Hell? Well, you'll go spend some time torturing yourself in whatever iteration of "hell" you believe is most appropriate.
Perhaps you fancy yourself an atheist and believe nothing happens at all? Or you return to the proverbial void? Well, surprise - you'll enjoy vacationing in nothingness for a while.
If you're still coming around to the idea that you are..you know, dead? You may be a surprise unseen guest at your own funeral.

Eventually, you typically get guided towards what's really going on via whatever means works for you. One near-death experiencer reported witnessing "The Mother Mary" descending into "Hell" to free them from their torturers, for instance. Again: it's ultimately up to what you believe. An Ethiopian Jew is likely not going to meet Krishna anymore than a Finnish Pagan would meet Quetzalcoatl.

To reiterate: regardless of the scenario, there are plenty of references suggesting you will continue existing. You'll simply be in another form beyond the physical.

Edit: For those interested in further reading from our very own kiwis on this and very similar matters - we had a thread on the paranormal a while back where some users shared their (or their loved ones) experiences on the matter. I'd recommend skimming it for tidbits related to the interest shown here.
 
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Ideally an existence with it's own demands, hardships and comforts.

I can't fathom a paradise I would not eventually tire of... I hate to say this because of the sheer fucking cringe of writing these words invokes but here it goes.

The Japanese reincarnation genre is likely the closest concept to paradise humanity has realistically constructed of an afterlife they would find true enjoyment in.

Not in the sense of being a perverts wish fulfillment but in the idea of being placed in another world with agency and the ability to grow and learn again. An existence without hardship is a hell of it's own.
 
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Agree with Fek. Am sure we go on after the death of our physical bodies, to live as spirits. Believe we go where we believe we're going. Also believe we get in that next life the things we were denied or didn't get enough of in this life.
 
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I'm starting to think nothing. I'm beginning to believe that every decision and ever event in human history is a result of the way particles emerged from the big bang. They set everything in motion and now, your life either sucks or your life is easy because of that.
 
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Waifu Denier said:
We are all already dead and in purgatory for sins in a past life. It's why the world is so shit and god never answers our prayers.
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I played with that idea a bit myself. God does answer our prayers though. We just may not like the answer, lol.

You're trapped in a KFC at 1:00 AM packed full of hangry niggers.
You MUST use the bathroom.
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I'd say the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, steady myself, and make a run for it.
 
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At the risk of sounding like a massive faggot, Recently I've been dealing with some major death anxiety and reading this thread has helped me somewhat get over it. (even the joke answers)

Personally speaking the hopeful part of me believes in some form of afterlife, I don't know if I believe in a Heaven or Hell type situation, but I do think powers greater than what science can explain or even see. I truly think oblivion Isn't what awaits us on the end of life, and If I'm wrong maybe oblivion isn't that bad.
 
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If there was a 'me' before I was born I don't remember it now. Perhaps this has happened many times before, but if so the concept of an enduring 'me' seems moot.
If you want to get into pseud(o) quantum fuckery, perhaps we're collapsed waveforms, temporarily locked to particle form under our own observence, and when we die we cease to observe ourselves and return to waves once again. What's that Jewish mythology stuff about the Tree of Souls and being snatched from the Guf? That kinda thing.
I'm not afraid of being dead, I expect it will be nothing to me. It's the dying bit that sounds like it could suck.
 
Before you existed there was the possibility of you existing that eventually manifested itself, and to think that there is nothingness after death you also need to believe that the possibility of existing also fades after death, which sounds absurd to me since I see no reason to believe that my physical body has anything to do with that possibility that would reasonably belong to the structure of reality which, frankly, we have no power over. There is a more reason to believe in an afterlife, whatever that might be, rather than just nothingness.
 
you are already all dead. that is why you all smell so rancid. on my planet, we only eat the living humans. much tastier. but, you halflings have the best movies. so we come here, to watch your movies, and watch your corpses rot away. it is funny that you do not know you are already dead. I think your God must hate you very much.
 
According to deep discussions I've had with experts in dying, this is the last thing you see before you experience eternal darkness once you're dead.
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For there to be an afterlife, there needs to be a way for consciousness to survive death despite the apparent mind-brain dependence.

If there's afterlife it could be "externalized inner reality" (as David Staume said), or like "The Nexus" from that Star Trek movie.
 
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