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 😆

You die, your body then begins its final task of turning to mush and returning you to mere molecules.

This is exactly while I'm not a Christian.

The idea that people who accept Christ as their saviour live and that they leave behind family, friends and millions of other people to die just because they don't believe in this one God and don't accept or believe is completely repugnant to me.

Can’t remember who said it but there’s a quote along the lines of ‘life is a glint of light between two eternal darknesses’. Just happy to be here 😄

I suppose the rational part of me believes that there can't be anything, that it's just like going to sleep or being under GA, and the energy that made "you" is just recycled into something else.

The reason I can't be 100% in that belief is the many stories out there of near death experiences, and people's accounts of being with someone who died who seemed to "see" deceased loved ones before they died.

Maybe just a chemical reaction in the brain before it dies, like a hallucination?

Could you please share what you recently listened to? I love Prof Cox.

As I said upthread, I was brought up by religious parents. I went to a convent school, I sent my kids to a Catholic school (for the school not the religion). I have been exposed to religion more than your average Joe.

In my huge circle of relatives, friends, neighbours and colleagues, I’d say at least 90% of them have no faith. I’m still good friends with about 20 of the parents of the kids ours went with to their Catholic primary. Like us, they have all ditched the going to church as soon as they could, because they do not believe. Now, if I was part of a Christian and observant community, I’d say most people I mixed with have faith. But in my world, most do not.

I fully believe that whatever we individually believe in is what happens next.

So for example, the people who believe nothing happens next, will experience nothing beyond death. That does not mean to say that I don't believe their energy continues on, just that they will have no conscious attachment to it. And that will have been their choice.

Those who believe in heaven and hell will have to make a two-tier judgement, firstly on what each of those places might look or feel like, and then another for which of those places they believe they belong. I think this settles the question of how a potential heaven can be blissful to everyone when we all have a different idea of what that means to us. There may be people who would want to spend eternity with me, but not the same people I would choose to spend mine with. If it is entirely based on personal belief then everyone experiences their own version. Similarly for a hell, the worst I can imagine won't be the same as the worst others can imagine, so again individual belief or fear would play into that experience.

I imagine those who believe in rebirth in any sense will experience life again while retaining some of the things that were important to them this time around. Things like peace, wisdom etc may come more naturally and their new vessels will be more connected to those things in the next life. Again this would be based on what the individual considers to be important to "bring with them".

I don't necessarily believe that these options play out in a physical space, but in the mind in the moments surrounding death, and in the same way that a dream state has no logical time frame, anyones "life" beyond death could happen in seconds while seeming to last forever.

I find peace in this because it doesn't matter what I believe in individually, it doesn't matter if my closest friends and family have different beliefs, I can take comfort in knowing that we will all end up exactly where we belong, and that will ultimately be the place that brings us each the individual peace we deserve in a final rest.

I don’t mind agnostics saying we shouldn’t be closed minded but I have a hard time swallowing the theories of the afterlife that people just make up and try to force other people to go along with. (Looking at you Catholic Church).

I can’t remember ever being unhappy before I was born.
There have been times in my life when I’ve been unhappy.
I’ll settle for it being like before birth.

I think 'modern' humans have been around for approximately 190,000 years. The oldest writings of the bible were written about 10,000 years ago maybe.
Lots of peoples have different ideas about death, life and its purposes, after life etc.

People's ideas ( in the Catholic Church, Protestantism, Greek Church Buddism. Islam, Confucianism, umpteen forms of animism, Roman /Greek Gods, the 'fairies', ancestor worship etc etc come and go. Ways of explaining the world, ways of controlling the population - especially politically 'inferior beings', especially women.

Do I think any of the explanations above are literally true? - no, but they served a purpose good or bad, when they were 'invented'.

You turn into compost. There is no afterlife, except in the memories of people who outlive you.

I am very happy to become compost but don't want to be wasted so a woodland burial without a coffin would be perfect. In a biodegradable bodybag maybe.

(makes mental note to look on Amazon and get one ready in plenty of time.)

I was a total atheist until I stumbled across a video by someone who researched near death experiences. I was astonished by the consistency in the reports of people who had been revived after their heart stopped. I now no longer fear death at all.

Is it only me who considers the fundamentalist Christian belief to be rather sinister? A god who says do what I say and I will be nice to you. Don't do what I say and you will burn in hell. Who is to say that this god is right? Who gave him a monopoly on deciding what anyone should do or what happens to them?

To me it is akin to a threat of terrorism.

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I do not feel that my parade has been rained on. Your beliefs are so far from mine to make that impossible.

HTH

What does HTH mean ?

That those we leave behind will miss us…. maybe 😆

I’d love to believe in life after death, being reunited with loved ones and pets, but if you have to be pure of spirit then I think only animals would be there (which is fine with me).

Not a scoob. I’d like to know too lol

Hope that helps.
Hth
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I like to think this too. The thought that that's it, nothing makes me feel really sad 😢

After a certain amount of years, unless you are famous it's like you never existed, no one remembers you, I think it's about 70 years

Oh. Thanks

I think like this too.

I'd like to think we will see loved ones again. I believed that for a long time. Now I'm not so sure. It makes my head hurt to think about.

Oh I hope reincarnation isn’t a thing…once is more than enough!

When I read the title of your post in the trending widget, I literally thought “you’ll be dead and that’s that”. Haha