what do you think happens after death?

I tried to kill myself when I was 14. I was about half an hour away from death when my mum found me. I was taken by ambulance to hospital and woke up in intensive care. However I recalled my trip to hospital in hazy bits, I remember my top that was covered in puke being taken off me in my bedroom, I remember having needles shoved in my arms and being given a coal drink ( this was once in hospital). However the thing that sticks in my mind is being frogmarched into hospital by somone who had linked their arm through mine, I didn't fet a good look at them but they seemed annoyed at me. But I wouldn't have been made to walk into hospital would I? Was was unconscious and would have been on a stretcher. I always think it was my dad in spirit marching me into that hospital. Also my mum only found me because she had bought me this ridiculous hippy 70s make your own beauty products book from a car boot sale which looked like the sort of thing my hippie dad would have liked, otherwise she never came to my room as we lived in a huge 12 bedroom pub which she ran single handedly. I think my dad's spirit intervened that day

I have to believe that I will see my mum again.

I love this.

I see it this way....

Imagine the unborn child. Suppose we could speak to him, alone in the warm, dark womb, and tell him about the huge, bright world, with billions of people, that he is about to be born into? He would say, "How can this be? There is only space here for me!"

This is why we can't get our heads around the idea of heaven. We simply don't have the words, experience or capacity to understand it. But just as the baby's disbelief in this world does not deny its existence, neither does our disbelief in an afterlife.

No , you said exactly that. “ non of us will get away with the evils and sins we commit in this life , unless we have repented them sincerely before we leave the earth “ Your own words, not mine .

I don't believe in God so thus I don't believe in a heaven with pearly gates and a hell full of flames. At most, maybe our souls exist in another dimension, in a different form of consciousness. Whether we can detect the souls of others who have gone before, who knows?

I really hope reincarnation isn't a thing because this world is already shit, and I don't want to come back to all the wars and wokeness I'd be leaving behind.

Where have a said any of this? Don't put words into my mouth.

Nobody knows who and what God will forgive, and I never said repenting is a guaranteed ticket to paradise. I just said that if you want any hope of getting there, repenting is necessary.

Why is it ridiculous to tell people that their bad actions have consequences? Is it because you do bad things that effect other people negatively all the time and are projecting here?

Also, you sound very narrow-minded and unable to understand a little concept called "different perspectives". I absolutely enjoy life and have fun, my idea of enjoyment and fun just isn't the same as yours. I don't need to do things I believe to be wrong and sinful in order to have a good time. But I AM having a good time 😉

By all means don't follow a religion, but don't impose your views on others, and make judgements and assumptions about their lifestyle. Most of us who sincerely follow a religion do so because we actually agree and align with what our religion is teaching us. We don't need "saviours" like you who think we don't understand what we're following. We're very well aware. Most likely more than you.

I think what happens after death is something that our brain capacity simply can't fathom, and were not supposed to understand in life what happens after death.

What if you don't get on with your loved ones or just bicker?!

I'd quite like a bit of nothing tbh. I'm exhausted !

I believe in heaven and he'll,I hope that for a time at least we get to check in and see what goes on after we die,also want to meet up with others who have already died.

I died once - I know that sounds all melodramatic, but I had a massive cardiac arrest, proper "drop to floor dead" stuff, and an only here because of the speedy arrival of a paramedic who zapped me with a defibrillator and got me back.
Anyway, there was nothing. No tunnel, no light, no loved ones waiting, just nothing.... And even so, knowing that, I choose to believe everyone gets their own "heaven" - they go wherever they most want to go.
I worked as a carer, and have seen some very "odd" thing happen as people die, so I can still believe in something more, something after.
It comforts me, and nobody can say I'm wrong, and that's enough for me.

I don't know what there is, but I am convinced there is something. The main reason for this is that sometimes when you enter the room after someone has died (in my case this was usually to confirm time of death) you are entering a room where you can still feel a person is in there, and other times it is entering an empty room. I can only account for it by sometimes the soul lingering, just a little while. But don't ask me what a soul is.

So sorry for your loss OP and I really hope that for you and your Mum as well xx

so because all these murderers and rapists and whatever else they’ve done should show remorse, that entitles them to a place in heaven ? I just don’t get that . What when they meet their victims in heaven ?

My loved one died twice on the operating table, was revived, and talked at length on his experience of floating, feeling overwhelmingly loved, and with other relatives who had died. He died again, finally, last year, and I like to think he’s back in the place he described and we’ll see each other again when I die.

I think my life is influenced by dead people who I’ve known. My friend died and I am shaped by our friendship and her death.
My hope is that I will do the same so I try to be a positive presence in my time here.

After death you live on in memory only.
I think your time is over when the last person speaks your name.

Brain activity has been detected in pigs for up to four hours post mortem.

This is what I think, for no particular reason other than I think about this sort of thing endlessly (because I find it fun 😆) and this is the conclusion I’ve drawn. I reckon we’re all a little chip off the block of a collective consciousness- a bit like god, but the collective consciousness has ‘good’ aspects and ‘bad’ aspects, just like a human. I find myself generally inclined to believe in a higher power, so to speak, but I doubt it’s a wholly benevolent deity given all the suffering in the world. When we die, I reckon we either rejoin the whole, a bit like a raindrop falling back into the ocean, or go round again to continue our contribution to the collective experience.

Exactly this. I lost my mum when I was 21. I was with her and she was talking to her mum just before she died. It was as if her mum had come to get her. I had to believe that I would see my mum again at that age, because I honestly don't think I'd be here right now if I hadn't believed that.

I don't believe in heaven or hell, and I'm not sure if there is anything afterwards, but I hope that when my time comes that my mum comes to get me, even if it is just an hallucination.

And this is exactly why organised religion is so awful. Telling people they have sinned is just ridiculous. Enjoy your life. Have fun. Be kind. You're not doing anything wrong or sinful and don't let them think you are. People shouldn't be encouraged to feel shame.

Obviously the exception is that some people are entirely awful human beings. In the animal world, they'd be expelled from the group and possibly killed.

I like to think that on the moment of death, all the truths about the world and the universe flood your brain and you are immediately enlightened about everything that's happened during your time on earth so far.
Once it's all sunk in, the lights go out and your soul morphs into the next human about to be born, or transcends to nirvana - depending on how far along the journey to enlightenment your soul is.

In the soil, back into the cycle of energy - food for insects etc

We're no different to any other life - no God, just the earth, no heaven, just back into soil and we never know any different as well be dead.

Personally I love that simplicity of science- we go to the earth. Very natural.

I wish people's didn't need the crutch of organised religion as there is no need. Science is special enough.