what do you think happens after death?

You get to choose - you can either come back to earth as a typical cat, shit in people's gardens, knock stuff off shelves, be generally grumpy and plot to take over the world... or you come back as spaniel, you'll be a bit stupid and will eat some really rank stuff when you're out walking but you'll be so bouncy and happy, your ears will flapping in the wind and you'll be absolutely living your best life.

Pretty sure that's what happens. (I'll go for the spaniel option).

I like to think (hope?) it's similar to the moment before you fall asleep, do you know when you run through the days events or a memory or you recall a moment? And then you don't remember anything? I hope it's like that; I also like to think our conscious goes "back" to a collective, back to where ever we existed before we arrived. I sometimes wonder when I get that feeling of déjà vu or my hairs on the back of my arm stick up I do wonder if it's because I've lived before ?

I'm religious, so I believe we will all stand in front of God in the hereafter, and be held accountable for all the shit we thought we'd get away with in this life. I believe none of us will get away with the evils and sins we commit in this life, unless we have repented them sincerely before we leave this Earth.

Reincarnation

If there was another life - what would sustain us? How would we compete for space and resources? Or would be just be floating benignly in an ever expanding cloud of righteousness?

Asking for opinions but only certain ones.... What's the point?
You stop breathing, you die, end of. It's just biology

So tell me this ~ assume you’re happily married and are widowed. After a time you wed again and are happy. You pop your clogs and husband no. 1 is waiting for you. What happens to poor no. 2 husband when he dies? Is he a spare wheel for all eternity?

What about an afterlife of karma where you get back everything you have given to others whilst alive? The same kindness, compassion, charity etc. you gave out is repaid (or not). Some say we are now in the afterlife in the Catholic idea of purgatory and being given another chance to get it right.

Just nothing at all would be better than living.

"I know the ones who love us will miss us."
Keanu

"The ones who love us, will miss us"
Keanu Reeves

And thats still the best answer ive heard to this question so its mine too

Babylon 5, a sci fi show, talks about the concept of 'star stuff' which i've always liked.

In summary atoms continue to exist. So the atoms from your decaying body will continue to be part of the universe. And may end up anywhere in it.

I think a loved one comes for you and takes your spirit away with them. I believe you see those you have loved and lost - animals too - and God is waiting to hold you in his arms. I feel you will be surrounded with peace and calm.
Many people who have had near death experiences or died and been brought back say that's what they saw/felt.

I like to picture a reunion with loved ones who’ve gone before. And I’d like to think I will see those who come after when they arrive at wherever or wherever the afterlife is. But equally the thought of existing forever is a bit scary. Maybe it’s something we can dip in and out of for special occasions and the rest of the time it’s just like being in a lovely dream?
I liked the idea of the Lovely Bones (although a horrific scenario) where she was able to watch her family until she was ready to go ‘on’ and that each person has a heaven that is personal and unique to them.
Gosh it really is quite mind blowing and overwhelming to think about.
Ultimately I think the most realistic outcome is that it does just go back to how it was before we were born. No consciousness, no awareness. But then again our energy didn’t exist before we were born and it would be nice to think it doesn’t die completely with us. Maybe it moves on somehow and somewhere else.

Fuck knows, to be honest.

Nothing ‘happens’.

We just cease.

I liken it to a ‘nothingness’ - the same as before we were conceived / born.

The same.thing that happened before you were born.

We get to do it all again.

I’d like to be a tardigrade next time please.

I believe in something after death. It feels too inconsequential to think this is it. I'm not sure what that something is. My family have had signs from loved ones who have died which is comforting

I’ve had a sense of heaven ingrained in me due to a strict catholic childhood, and I would love it to be true. I’ve had a couple of weird experiences of being aware when people close to me have died and there’s no way I could have known it, but all I can say is that I saw/felt them pass. Similarly an inexplicable experience when I was dangerously ill.
What I’m inclined to believe is that we return to some sort of energy source where we all connect - it’s hard to explain. So we are all with our loved ones, but not in the sense that we are able to be together as people, but our energy is all wrapped up together and being in this world was just an experience.
I realise that probably sounds very weird.

There's a big wide universe out there and many extra dimensions and planes of being. It's pretty narrow thinking to believe thus is all their is.

I believe we go to be with God if that is what we want and if we don't seek unification with the ineffable divine then who knows what happens. I do think that we might be cast into a darkness of our own making.

Hopefully ousouls s go whizzing around the universe. I'm pretty positive that our souls continue on and we will be at peace.

Nobody knows and there is only one way we will all eventually find out. My perception of the afterlife is very childlike and hasn't changed much at all over the last 40 years. Not lemonade rivers or marshmallows growing on trees, but being together with all our relatives and pets and being happy and free of pain. I'm grateful for truly believing this, it keeps me warm.

I wonder if there's a collective consciousness that we rejoin after death. And then maybe back into a body if there's something important to learn or experience.

What about you, Op?

I'd like a big brother style here are your best bits, then some time with loved ones who've passed before then lights out forever that would be fine with me!

I'm terrified it's reincarnation as someone awful...