What happens after you die?

You are non existent and that is nothing to be afraid of. you were non existent for an eternity before you were born and you will be non existent for an eternity after you die. Can you remember what it felt like before you were born? No because you can't feel anything. Our brain can't comprehend what death feels like because it is the state of unconsciousness.

Here is a romantic and beautiful way of thinking about it.

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I dont know how much I believe this, but one version of the multiverse theory states that every time anything happens, multiple universes split off, and every possibility ever is in existence, you will only be conscious to a universe that you survive in, so in theory, every person is experiencing a different reality, and in that reality, you will live forever.
 
Before you answer this question take a moment to wonder at the existence of your mind and your existence and everything that makes up humanity.

Do you really believe that your conciseness as a whole is just a series of electrical impulses?

I definitely do not think you go to another world of heaven in that sort of way of thought, but i absolutely refuse to accept that the human mind is simply a Physical thing. I believe it is part of something science cant begin to grasp. Something beyond reason.

Maybe i am a hopeless romantic but personally i would rather have this train of thought and be wrong than go though life believing once you die you are gone.

I think the whole fault of anybody pushing religion is that religion is a set of life philosophies that work for you and you find comfort and purpose in.

If you are comforted by the thought that life is purely physical than great for you but i am willling to bet that deep down a percentage people in this thread who have said nothing happens after you death do not believe that and are only suppressing their actual belief because for some reason beyond me atheism is the hot shit right now.

I think this train of thought has originated from the modern establishments of religion making the beliefs incredibly rigid and harsh. religion was never meant to be a set of strict rules it was supposed to be a fluid tool to use to help realize and exercise your morals.

finally just a bit of food for thought. If Our consciousness is the highest in the universe then why do we have a sense of right and wrong?
 
You would rather just hope their is an afterlife and live your life as there is one? Why? that would make you less inclined to live your life to the fullest. I think the exact opposite. By believing that when I die I no longer exist I strive to experience as much as I can in the world, and feel so incredibly lucky to have been granted these brief spark of consciousness.

Also OP check out this video...

 
On the contrary my friend. the thought of nothing existing after death is depressing and makes it seem as if life isn't worth working through the struggles so i use the concept of an afterlife to make sure i do work through the struggles and constantly pursue happiness. Also take your self righteous pseudo intellect elsewhere.
 
That was deep. Im not saying i believe in religion i just think well i hope something happens after we die.
 
I respect other people's beliefs but I honestly can't see religion or the afterlife as anything more than wishful thinking.
 
your body begins to decompose and becomes a part of the earth. Eventually the earth will be destroyed by our sun when it swells to be a red giant. From there you will become a part of the sun, eventually the sun will shed the upper layers of its mass ejecting you deep into space. some point later, after you have become a part of the galaxy's mass we will be run into by andromeda. after that we will be spred into two galaxies and continue on our merry way becoming parts of stars, planets, nebulas, black holes, ect. This will happen infinitely or until the universe ends.

That is how I see it anyway, death is simply being reunited with what had spawned you.
 
There are so many ways I want to attack this question, and my views definitely resonate some with what others have said, but mostly my response is an objection to the typical scientific/materialistic approach to death as "ceasing to exist" or "experiencing nothingness".

Death, or at least our concept of death, evades the realm of science. Science is a reductionist linguistic system, it takes composite phenomena and breaks it down into it's component parts, names those component parts (atoms, electrons, protons, elements, genes, organs, organisms, eco-systems,) it takes those components and tries to describe what they do and how they interact with other components, but there are pretty much two things that undermine science (or at least the idea of a universal science that can describe and predict anything).

1. Science can never say that this component thing will always behave this when when it interacts with this other component thing. That only draws a reference to another component phenomena that was first set in action, and another one before that, on down the line, like a chain of referential actions. Think of how, if you are learning a language, the dictionary always refers you to other words, and this is an infinite process. We jump into this process and try to understand it, but essentially, no philosophy or science can detail everything, only try to describe the composite phenomena and how it tends to act,

2. Experientially, science can do very little to help us tackle questions of consciousness and the seemingly sticky subjects that arise out of this unique state of being. It can try to give us materialistic answers as to the parts that work in our brain, but as far as dealing with our perceptual reality as a whole it is hugely flawed. We still have philosophy and religion departments in colleges because science fails us in asking the bigger questions about the larger composite reality. Sure, when my tire goes flat I can go to a mechanic and he can locate the puncture and patch it, but he can't, and when I have a bacterial infection a doctor can give me the right antibiotic, but neither can conclusively tell me how to deal with the fact that I got the flat tire, the infection, and my girlfriend left me, and my dog died all in the same day.

With death and dying I think the question that is far more important than "what happens when you die," is, "how will I prepare for dying." Tibetan's think dying (and living for that matter) is an art, and practice the art of dying their entire lifes. There is a test at the end, and we must all face it. You are going to lose your youth, everyone you love, everything you cling onto now, including your own ability to remember what you did 10 minutes ago. This may sound depressing but it's believed that death can be a joyful and exciting adventure if you choose to face it that way.

And yes, we were all born of stardust and there isn't a single atom in my body or any of yours that wasn't forged in the same furnace.

In my mind, and in Werner Von Braun's (famous rocket scientist, watch October Sky), nothingness or the extinction of consciousness is a scientific impossibility. Science only knows rebirth and connection.

I think that we don't drop out, we drop back in. In other words, maybe heaven, nirvana, enlightenment or whatever, happens when we realize CONSCIOUSLY, NOT JUST CONCEPTUALLY, that we are a part of the blanket and not just a single thread.

I think hell is just living life as if you are really YOU, a singular solid identitfiable person, independing and belonging to yourself. This notion does more damage and causes more suffering than anything else.

inb4 TLDR

 
Yes its depressing, but its most likely the truth. How am i being self righteous? I am expressing the opinion that I think the opposite of you, and in fact the OP seemed to enjoy my point.

You can believe in an afterlife, and that hope may make you happier, and live a better life. However, I think that if I knew I was going to some magical place when I died I would be less inclined to make a lasting impact on the world. Thats all I was trying to say. I know there is a good chance that my immortality may only be achieved through my children and through my legacy on this planet, and that knowledge or thought makes me motivated. I don't fully dismiss the idea of some sort of afterlife, but i highly doubt if there is one it will resemble anything close to a judeo-christian paradise.

 
again missing the point completely. I will address your points in order. Most likley the truth? Stunning example of pseudo intellect. What fact do you have to support the idea nothing happens afterward? Yes you expressed your opinion somewhere but when you quoted me you attacked my opinion with the mind frame that you were right. therefore you were being self righteous. Who give a flying fuck whether the OP enjoyed your opinion.

I have no issue with your second paragraph.
 
When you die you become a tree. You'll be in the middle of the wilderness and doing your tree thing. Whatever it is trees do. I know they do alot of work with breezes. And wouldn't it be fantastic if while you were out there just enjoying your treeness, through the woods a huge, sweaty guy with an axe comes along. Sees you. Chops you down. Smash. Puts a chain around you. Drags you through the mud and the muck. Puts you into a sawmill. Grinds you up. Then pounds you down into paper. And once you're paper, they print the Bible on you.
 
you keep living your life as if you had not died. like if you hit your head, you died to everyone else, but for you, its like you just got a concussion. its still feels real, but it is just spiritual, i guess.

that or you go to a dead people world, where everyone that ever lived goes. its like a hotel inside the sun or something cool like that.

 
Finding comfort in your existence beyond death as something 'beyond science' is disproved by your own argument against atheists as well as those who are religious. You state that religion is essentially for the weak minded, and that atheism is the hot shit right now. Wouldn't both sides argue that you're an infidel for solely believing your train of thought continues on? There is obviously no answer to the argument of 'what happens after death' for no person has come back after death to explain what happens, if anything. It's all merely speculation. I personally support and live the life I want to live - for no one has the knowledge to determine where you go. Do what you want, live the life you want to live, and know that the only recorded portion of memory exists in the now; for no soul can prove life existing beyond death. Giver.
 
One day, an old man's son asked him what he wanted done for him when he died. The old man replied that he wasn't picky, and they could just throw his body in the woods. The old man only requested that they give him a stick. His son asked why, to which the old man replied, "I'll need something to fend off the wolves." "But, you'll be dead," said the son. To which the old man replied, "well, I suppose it doesn't matter then."
 
exactly, we were all dead since the creation of the Universe up until being born, when you die you simply return to being nothing but bug food or ashes. There is no 'soul' or anything we possess that can possibly cause magical events like reincarnation or anything to happen. You're a dead piece of meat and bones in a box. stop the fairy tales an shit
 
Dane cook is a raging dumbass who pretends to be funny by yelling stupid shit really loud. Don't repeat his bad jokes here
 
what is death? literally it is when basic bodily functions are no longer operational and your body deteriorates at a rapid pace as you slowly become warm and pass. Does the soul leave the body? What is a soul anyway, some would say the soul leaves the body and enters another, others may argue there is no such thing as a soul. What I personally believe happens is that when you die, your soul (which I believe in) leaves your body and enters a black hole. In this black hole, it is bombarded by mindless garbage and consistently pounded by a large penis. many call this penis dova kin, or, in our tongue, the mighty penis, this is supposed to cleanse the soul and make sure that all the desires, hate, love, fear, and anything else is out of the old soul and it is now new. After what they call the penis pounding process (PPP), it is off to the ass goblins where they pick out special souls for special tasks, some go and become an ancient alien race called the covenant. others become rocks on mars which only purpose is to be turned into a satellite later on. many go and become sludgy pieces of ear wax found in humans and other galactic races, and lastly the clean souls go to the apple factory where apple puts them in every product. where do souls come from then? if souls don't become re-encarnated, where do they come from? well in all truth, there is a high princess mage wizard man pig that lives on top of the tootsie roll factory. he/she makes the souls by jerkin his meat into a cauldron of ball sweat, eyelashes, camel toes (either from a real camel or you know ;)) and those things found at the end of the shoe laces, he watches brazilian fart porn and makes 3 souls every minute. that is why some people are born without souls because he cannot watch that much brazilian fart porn in a day. for example, the white man is actually born soulless, they use a special personality enhancer called a chilowak that makes a person appear to have a soul but they really don't, go check for your self, ask your parents this: "hey (mom or dad) can i take a gander up blue creek down mappers island" they will immediately know what you mean and pull out the chilowak from beneath their fingernails.

and thats what happens when you die. 100% true story.
 
If you have ever had surgery, death is like the time between when they tell you to count back from ten, and when you wake up and beligerently try and hit on the 40 yr old nurses.
 
i have researched this topic for around a year, and it's quite amazing. for those 30 seconds that you were dead in the real world, how long was it for you inside your mind?
 
watched last night and could not for the life of me wrap my mind around it. really opened my mind to the different possibilities out there!!
 
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