What do you think happens after you die ?

[Ella2001]

I’m waiting on “you’ll be dead and that’s that“ 🤣
but genuinely curious as to what everyone else thinks happens , I know it’ll be like before you were born , you won’t know but what if after life/recantation is a thing ? I’ve come to terms with the fact tomorrow isn’t promised but what if there’s afterlife and we get born into a horrible abusive family ? In that case I think I’d rather just be nothing ? What you all think ? Love to read these threads thought I’d make one myself 😆

Nope. But I know so pretty much no people that have any faith, so it’s genuinely a surprise if anyone mentions anything about it.

When my parents died, I got a couple of religious/afterlife themed condolence messages. I found them both odd and presumptuous. If I were religious, I’d never just assume someone else was and send them a message containing religious guff. I actually found them quite annoying. Most people have no faith.

Most people have no faith.

Rubbish! Just because you believe in fuck-all, and can't open your mind to anything other than 'this is it!' don't tar everyone else with the same brush! Billions of people across the planet have a faith! 'Most people have no faith!' What an ignorant and thing to say.

Well, I suppose you won’t be conscious of having your parade rained on when it turns out the afterlife is just wishful thinking, and Heaven/Hell a carrot and stick for the deluded…?

Nothing happens, OP. Our consciousness is created by our bodies. Which stop finction8ng.

Your body breaks down and the atoms that make up your body are released. Which means atoms in your body now could become part of a leaf or a bee or a person in the future.

I had an out of body experience when I was 16. It felt like I was having a seizure, everything shaking and then I was suddenly weightless. I looked at my hands and they were made of light. I was just staring at everything astonished for about five minutes then it ended. So that has stayed with me all my life with a feeling we are more than our bodies. As previous posters have mentioned, I've seen my body during this and it looked like an empty shell

Jesus is in Heaven now, he is alive. An immortal body is one that never dies, never gets sick.

People think I'm woo but I always have premonitions that come true. I also meet people sometimes and know I've known them for years and have premonitions about them/flashes of us chatting at another time.

I'm not religious, but because of this I kinda think we live our same lives again and again and again.

I read a physics theory that time expands and contracts (goes forwards and then backwards). If that happens on a loop then you would just be living your life again and again...

I'm also open to the idea of all going back to one energy.

To be fair, he had 10% of his brain and an IQ of 84 (which is not great). His story really only speaks to neuroplasticity and how his brain adapted to fully utilize the brain tissue he had.

I used to think nothing happens.

Recent family suicide. Family member was taken to a hospital quite far away, then brought back to the village funeral director a week later. I had a strong sense that they had not fully 'gone' until they had arrived back in the village, and were cared for by the funeral director's wife, someone they would have really liked in life. A few days after they were 'home', I felt they had gone.

Probably just my brain trying to rationalise things. But I'm open-minded. I also get quite irritated with the belligerent, arrogant attitude of those who angrily shout that 'nothing happens'. Maybe there are things we don't yet understand. Have a little humility. It's stupid to think we've got everything figured out.

What? You mean like groundhog day?? So you think we live our life, die, then go back to the beginning of our lives and live it all over again? The exact same life experience on a continuous loop??
Oh man.....that's depressing.

I wouldn’t find it annoying- they are expressing their condolences in their own way. If someone said they would pray for me if I had a serious illness or something I would take it in the spirit that they intended, the same as if someone said they were rooting for me, or that they are thinking of me.

@TwigTheWonderKid I can understand the comfort of believing you'll be reunited with loved ones, but for me that's just a fairytale-like story, told to make people feel better. It's not very likely is it?

Thing is, it's not necessarily a 'comfort' because some of my loved ones will not be in Heaven and that's very sad. Christianity isn't an easy message to make us feel better. It's actually a difficult message to live life following Christ. Not everyone will believe and they will be lost eternally.

Brilliant!

...I kinda think we live our same lives again and again and again.

Oh please god no. I'm not doing this one again!!

Yes. So there's a physics theory (can't remember the name) but everything expands from the Big Bang (including time) and then once it reaches it's limits it contracts again.

So time goes forward expanding - then backwards as it contracts, on a loop. If it does do that, then the little slither of time that is your life would repeat every few billion years as the universe expands and contracts.

Anyway, I just thought that theory was interesting, given my random promotions.

😂

I think that what makes 'us' is in our mind so once your brain has decomposed/cremated the consciousness that is 'you' no longer exists... But I think that we are all interconnected to the earth and space in a continuously recycled molecules way, so the cycle of life goes and and you are part of it, just not aware of it.
I have had spiritual experiences which can't be explained, so I am open to the idea that there is more than we know, but I think my inner self and life experiences which are my identity won't continue.

I'm with a pp who said that after death, your soul sort of bumbles around for a bit and then finally moves on to wherever it ends up. Like the energy of you is around post death and then settles down. I'm not religious but when I've lost people close to me, I get a feeling maybe weeks or months after their death that they are settled now - hard to explain.

I saw our Dad after he'd recently died {At home}- he just looked asleep.

Later, at the undertakers- two weeks later, it was literally not him, just an empty 'shell' like a chrysalis, from where the spirit had flown.

Hoping I get to come back and haunt a few people.

Nothing, everyone else just goes on, you are gone

Bickering on Mumsnet for eternity 🎯😂

But the bible as a “book” was chosen by a group of men from a large number of texts, all written hundreds or thousands of years in the past. They disregarded the ones they didn’t like (including anything written by or about women) and cherry picked a narrative. How do you know they got the story correct, since they were just men? And why are so many religious women happy to accept a whole history of the world and their part in it where they get the blame for sin and no voice? Does their God really despise women so much he set them up in the garden of Eden, and then never even let them have one book in the Bible? Not one book? Not one woman’s story in her own words, for half the population to relate to? And if so, is this really something that deserves worship?

I believe in a greater power, certainly, but not the Church of any man-made religion (too much “man” in all of them). Energy cannot be destroyed, only changed, so they say - I imagine the life force that makes a person goes back to its centre, like lightening grounding itself - but after that I can’t imagine (I’m only a well evolved ape after all!)

I don't think anything happens as such. Maybe there is some way in which the essence of ones self becomes part of the universe or part of new life, but I don't think one is aware of it.

I'm Jewish (and atheist) and Jewish tradition is kind of 'Life is the bit that matters; after, who knows?'

Literally thats it. Gone.