what do you think happens after death?

Me too. And absolutely terrifying tbh.

I think we’re absorbed back into the All from which we might or might not emerge (in whole, or part) again

I think we all ride zebras endlessly into the universe.

Seriously, what on earth do you hope to gain by asking this question? You'll have everything (and nothing) suggested by people who all have one thing in common, absolutely no basis for their beliefs whatsoever. Are you just going to pick the one you like best and hope it's that? If so, just make up your own. This is the one question on which nobody knows better than you, because nobody knows anything.

Your story triggered a memory of a similar experience. I also attempted suicide when I was younger, and I distinctly remember a quiet moment in the hospital where someone stood near my bed with their back turned. They wouldn't turn to face me because they were annoyed with me and they kept saying "what have you done to yourself?"

When I later asked who that was, no one had been there.

I can't even begin to imagine the pain and suffering you went through because I don't have children. I have suffered losing people I've loved and I say cling on to that comforting thought. Much love to you.

I think that we are basically energy. And when our body dies our energy goes back to the universe. Not in a conscious way but in a what makes me me leaves my earthly body and the energy just dissipates back into the void. I saw some one just after (minutes) they died once and it was still ‘them’ but when I saw them again later it was just a body and they were gone. I know it’s not conventional and I can’t back it up with science or anything but I very clearly felt that they had gone.

It does. The brain doesn't know where death is so it flips through your memories to find something to compare it to and releases a chemical to stop you feeling frightened. That'll do me.

I don't know past that, I hope there is something. I really want to see my daughter again when I go but obviously I won't know if itll happen or not. Just a comforting thought isn't it?

But there is nothing wrong with accepting that death is the end. Because we live on anyway, in those we leave behind. The way I look at some things changed because I met my husband, and though he has now died I still look at those things in the way I do because of him. The things I do, the things I say, the things I buy are all in some way shaped by the 25 years we had together. So he lives on through his impact on me, and on many others.

A silly example - I love home made salted almonds with a glass of champagne. They remind me of Christmas with my parents, as my mum always made them. She made them because her mother made them, and her mother becuase her mother did. Every time I make them I am reminded not only of my mother, who is still alive, but my grandmother and great grandmother. For me, tangible memories of those who went before me is far more meaningful than the thought there is something beyond life. Because they are with me in this life in myriad ways

I’m terrified of being reincarnated as someone at the mercy of someone awful - imagine being reincarnated as an orphan in a home run by a Jimmy Saville or a Fred West.

This is sort of what happened to my mum near the end. Her mum was somewhere about even if she was just an hallucination.

I do hope I see my mum, too, at my end.

In my mind, my mum's joined my paternal grandfather and is living in the parallel universe of my childhood home.

When I die, I'll join them there. Only it'll be with all the knowledge and experience of our lives, and will be a good place.

I like the idea that the soul goes into a kind of 'waiting room' where it processes everything thats happened in the current life. Recovers/heals from it and decides where to go next depending on how many lives it's already lived. No idea where I got this from - probably a mixture of opinions about life after death as well as some personal experiences following the death of loved or not so loved ones.
Why do I believe this? It makes me feel better believing/hoping that there may be a chance to learn from the mistakes I've made in this life and do better in another. would hope not be castigated for this belief as I certainly wouldn't criticize anyone for thinking that death is the end!

I had a near death experience as a child at the dentists. I was given gas as an anaesthetic and my airway collapsed and I began the exit process. I found myself in a dark tunnel and it was filled with Disney characters. I don't particularly like Disney and never have. I don't know what they were. I came round to the dentist and nurse panicking somewhat and removing an airway from my throat.

The thing that scares me the most after Hell is, what if we're recycled and we have to be reincarnated and do it all again? As far as I'm concerned life is awful and I hate being here. I can't do it all again. I want to meet my father when I die, as he died when I was young and I never really knew him.

I've always liked this idea, I'd like it to be a shared conscious, where we each understand one another entirely and there is peace and harmony and acceptance and a sharing of knowledge and no envy or competitiveness.

The angel of death will come and take you to meet God. God will then judge you on what you have done in your life and ask you 5 questions.

1. who is your God?
2. what is your religion?
3. how did you spend your time?
4. how did you make your money?
5. how did you spend your money.

And you will tell everything and even demonstrate with your hands and feet.

Then based on his love and mercy, God Allah will admit you to heaven / paradise or hellfire.

This is what Muslims believe

I’m reading this and “Angels” has just come on the radio, so I’ll take that as a sign!

I believe in reincarnation, so I believe that there is a part of us that is eternal and in each life we take on a new body body/personality and in between lives we go 'home', evaluate our last life and plan for the next. Michael Newton's book 'Life between Lives' totally changed my understanding of reincarnation.

Life is great; amazing in fact 😊 And part of what’s so wonderful is that we can experience so much in the short time we are here, and enjoy it in the moment.

Perfection for eternity, to me, be like an all you can eat buffet. The idea sounds great, but the reality is the novelty wears off quickly and you end up wishing you’d just gone to a decent restaurant in the first place. Quality over quantity for me :)

Yeah, but 2 of us witnessed this simultaneously.

Like I said, prior to this experience I was a “sceptic” and your reaction just confirms what I said about the people who can’t explain these phenomena making an attempt at the scientific explanation.

It is like a general anaesthetic
Nothing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjch-CQbEUo&pp=ygUfYWxhbiBwYXJ0cmlkZ2UgdGhlcmUgaXMgbm90aGluZw%3D%3D

Alan Partridge asks the same question.

I think this too. I can’t imagine how life must be for those who don’t x

@Goldyyup I guess you'll just have to wait and see then!