What do you think happens after we die?

[ArnoldPalmer]

I will be a ghost girl and won't have a butthole.

Is that canon? Ghosts don't have buttholes? How do they ghost poop?

 

[stares at error messages]

I've blacked out before, so I guess it's just like that only you don't come-to latter.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Nothing. I hope.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I like the "New Church" explanation: an "externalized inner reality" (as David Staume put it).

TL;DR: it's kind of like "the Nexus" from the movie Star Trek Generations, but "more real than real life".

Or at least I hope there's no "traditional" hell, reincarnation, nor eternal recurrence of this life.

 

[The Great Chandler]

Die? We should be so lucky. I'm of a mind that we're already in eternal punishment and "death" is just an intermission to separate one set of tortures and humiliations from another. Also, god is a dick and our purpose for existence is to entertain him with our misery. Good things only happen because they give us hope that can be snatched away. Furthermore, happy people are probably soulless demons sent to make us feel bad about ourselves.

Or maybe it's all a dream. It would explain the need for a scientifically unobservable or provable concept like consciousness.

Gee! That's pretty depressingly nihilistic as hell.

 

[RinguPingu745]

I hope it is just like sleeping, whether that means you dream or it's just blackness. I want to believe there is an afterlife or even reincarnation, but it's hard to have that faith anymore. I just hope whatever is there isn't Hell, because damn it, I would be roasting for some stupid sin I didn't even know I was committing.

 

[The Great Chandler]

If you die, you're congratulated by this:

 

[Van Darkholme]

If you die, you're congratulated by this:

My rotting skeleton self would have a good laugh.

I mean it could be worse
It could be the basement music from Resident Evil Director's Cut DualShock Edition (what a title)

 

[A Grey Cat]

I hope it is just like sleeping, whether that means you dream or it's just blackness. I want to believe there is an afterlife or even reincarnation, but it's hard to have that faith anymore. I just hope whatever is there isn't Hell, because damn it, I would be roasting for some stupid sin I didn't even know I was committing.

From the intro to Steven King's pet semetary "Death is a mystery, burial is a secret."

From ghostbusters 2 "death is but a door, time is but a window. "

From the mummy (1999) and the 2002 remake of Resident Evil "death is only the beginning.


Deaths a mystery and sometimes some mysteries are better left unsolved.

 

[Shitted Scaredless]

A bunch of what you would call woo

 

[Quiet Guy]

I hope it is just like sleeping, whether that means you dream or it's just blackness. I want to believe there is an afterlife or even reincarnation, but it's hard to have that faith anymore. I just hope whatever is there isn't Hell, because damn it, I would be roasting for some stupid sin I didn't even know I was committing.

If you want to know the truth, you could try researching it. There are books on apologetics for example, and that might be better than doing nothing regarding the subject and remaining in the dark.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Eternal cessation of conciousness.

 

[and I must scream]

Nothing. That's what scares me so much. There is just nothing.

 

[A Grey Cat]

I always find myself looking up the latest articles and papers, even if they're total fluff pieces on what's been studied on the subject from the scientific angle to the spiritual. Often it happens every few months or years when the realization that I'm getting older, my brothers are getting older, and my parents are getting older...and they're the closest ones to making that one way trip out of everyone else I know.

Every time I do I end feeling like I know less about the subject then when I started. People are always going to find ways to try and explain death. The one mystery that can only be answered when it inevitably happens to us all, and when it does you can't go back to tell anyone the answer.

Maybe we're just not meant to have a definitive end all answer until then.

 

[PFM]

Your after-death experience will be the same as your pre-birth experience. IMO of course...

 

[Question Mark]

Pic related, maybe. But the questions assumes that Closed Individualism is true. "You" might actually die every moment.

 

[kaz321123]

Just a thought.

Perhaps you need to have a firm 'belief' in something, to keep your consciousness from 'veering off the track' and into oblivion.

If you think there's a heaven, perhaps that's what occurs. If you believe in nothing, nothing occurs.

But I'm going to be honest here, anytime I think of this topic, I feel like I'm trapped in some sort of time loop, and my stomach literally feels anxious (the feeling like when you go up and down a hill suddenly while driving). 'Death' isn't the end of anything, that's what I sense.

When I was young, all I 'sensed' was that there was a LOT of 'time' in the past. Thought I was 'floating' or something. Could be they just knocked me out for the first year of life just to get me to sleep.

 

[Truman the Jewman]

I, like a lot of folks, do have sort of a lingering fear of death... I try not to let it affect me and just enjoy life as it comes; live in the present, as it were.

Once, I had an out-of-body experience while I was conscious, and ever since then I've had a fascination with what comes of our consciousness when we pass away. If you also want to have an out-of-body experience, take a large dose of dextromethorphan and LSD--it felt like I was floating away from my body, like I could see myself in a shaded void as I drifted aloft.

But in any case, it got me thinking--I may not be a Christian in the devout sense, but I feel as though there may be some sort of greater spiritual presence "out there." Like, maybe everyone has bits and pieces that could be right. I don't think there are a Heaven or Hell, but I don't think it all just ends.

My greatest fear is an ending for humanity like that of Shelley's Ozymandias: a great windswept shattered monument ensconced in ruins, with nothing more substantial to remember us by. Hopefully mankind, by the end of my lifetime, will be moving into space: the infiniteness of the universe far eclipses my fear of the unknown.

 

[L50LasPak]

I'm plagued by the notion that there is some kind of afterlife, yet I have no evidence to support it or reason to believe it.

I often wonder how it felt to be asleep though, which I think is connected. My sleep, when it does come to me, is very deep and usually when I wake up its always in a state of panic or dread. I rarely remember anything to do with dreams so I almost always have no idea why I'm in such a distressed state.

Logically though, when you're dead you're dead. There's nothing physical or ethereal to actually maintain your pattern. So rather than death being like a deep sleep, it must somehow be a step beyond that, where literally nothing happens, not even bad dreams that you can't remember.

 

[DontEatThat]

I can give my account of the closest ive ever been. Most people who are dying kind of have that sense of impending doom and will start to mentally prepare for whatever. Having been at deaths door I can say its a weird albeit calming sensation, you do tend to think of your life and loved ones but also the fact that the pain you are in is going to end soon. You start to accept the fact that its all over and everything will be ok, you dont think too much of what will happen. You are just glad that its going to be over. Obviously I was brought back from crossing that line but that was my experience with it, and I am pretty sure when its over its over. I dont like to dwell too much on it, but the thought does creep up on me every now and then. Makes you appreciate life, but then again with the blessing life is..so can death be as well.