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 😆

I think our missions come to an end and we get to go home to our real families.

@BunnyLake

I get curious though about the logistics of meeting up with loved ones when you die. What happens if you’ve been married more than once, do you get both (or more) partners back even if they don’t like each other? What happens if you loved someone but they fell out of love with you do you still get to reunite with that loved one? I wonder who’s in charge of sorting all this out, it makes me think of diplomatic table placements at a wedding. Do you have to stay with these people (even if you love them) all the time, like a never ending Christmas visit?

@CitizenZ

Doing what though? Eternity is a long time just to be hanging about with Jesus.

Both of these things bother me for those who believe.

For example, what state are you in? I think everyone imagines youthful healthy people swanning around - but what if at the point of death you had Parkinson's or dementia or cancer? Wouldn't it be logical for your eternal state to be as you were at the point of death which would be really fucking miserable for some people who were suffering at the point they died?

If it's not at that point, when is it? Is it the same age for everyone? Everyone in eternity is 18 years old? or 20? or 30? what if you died before this arbitrary age? do you get to choose your age? what if you make a mistake and in a hurry choose 20 blinded by youth and have buyers remorse later realising life was better when you had more self confidence and experience?

Even if it isn't 'eternity in a bodily form' and it's just your mind/soul/energy - again what age/what form - what if you had a stroke or a brain injury?

Where are all these people stored? The number of dead people is endlessly growing. No one is leaving.

What do they do? Sit around and chat?

What happens in hell? Assuming the devil is a bad man driven by lust and vice, why wouldn't it be the case that everyone in hell is having a great time - eternally drunk but not hungover?

So many logistical questions...

When I was put under general anaesthetic I went from chatting away to the anaesthetist one minute and then woke up in the recovery suite. In between that was complete nothingness. No dreaming, no awareness of time passing, not even any darkness. Just... nothing. I think death is like that on a permanent basis and I will have no awareness at all, which I don't find scary. I'll be glad of a rest!

I do think our energy if you like goes elsewhere in the universe and is transferred somewhere but with no consciousness attached to it. I tell my children that when people die they become stars....my energy may well go into a dock leaf or a dung beetle or something but I imagine some of it will inevitably end up out in the cosmos so I don't feel like I'm making anything up when I tell DDs that.

Hoping nothing.

I think eternity isn’t a long time so much as no time or rather all time at once. We will be outside of chronological time.

I would love to believe we see our passed loved ones again. But I just don't ☹️ I think it's like before we're born..just nothing 🤷🏼‍♀️

This book has all the answers OP! 😀

Click on "Preview book" to look through it. Brilliant stuff

Most people have no faith.

The vast majority of the world’s population is religious.

Highonthehillsisalonelygoatherd Out of interest, what made you pick that option out of the many offered by a huge number of faiths?

I find it very difficult to think about death being the end, especially when people have been so alive, so vibrant. They surely can’t just stop! I’d love to think we go on in some way.

I believe the soul, for want of a better word, lives on.
I also think we are all part of a ‘consciousness’ way beyond our imagination and we are all somehow interconnected.

I also think we have only a tiny fraction of understanding of the world around us and we are extremely naive to think we ‘know’ much at all of what our world is

We will pass on into the next place, where others have gone before us. We will be reunited with our lost loved ones and made whole again. It's a source of comfort to me.

@ItsAllSoSoBleak
(proviso I’m not a Christian)

when talking about eternal life, I don’t think people would stay let’s say in the state they were with let’s say dementia. Because dementia is a disease if the body not the spirit/soul.
I don’t think the soul can get ill. The body does.

Well at least that’s how I’d interpretated it 😁😁

I think your relatives ( the one's you liked ) pop over and collect you, and then you with them to the other side. Obviously I have no proof that this happens and if it doesn't I won't care so I will stick to my version of events until proven wrong

I once believed in afterlife but don't very much now. It really isn't logical. Nice to think it's possible but it's a fairytale.

Won't you feel any sadness for the humans who didn't make it to heaven to spend eternity in the presence of God? It seems quite a selfish mindset to have. Not very- what's the word?- Christian.

rabbitsrock If you, for example, kill a g! bacterium with soap, or step on an ant, would you like to believe those lives have not stopped? Or is it just humans?

I like the idea that we are all living multiple lives at one time so you never really die.

Doppelgangers are you in one of your other lives

DeJaVu is you catching a glimpse of one of your many lives happening so when you get that, 'ooh I've done this before" you already have but that life had different outcomes because you made a different choice or something happened to set you on a different way

A bit like when you go back home because you've forgotten something or a trains cancelled or you're late leaving work or deciding to walk a different way.

A bit like sliding doors, the film!

I have had the privilege of nursing 2 of my grandparents at the end of their lives and was with each of them while they passed (peacefully, thankfully - after long illnesses).

I didn’t really put much focus into my beliefs before but I truly believe that with each of them I witnessed the moment that their soul/spirit left their bodies. It was not long before they took their final breaths. There was just a change that I can’t really describe - like their body was just empty - just a vessel.

I do believe that I’ll see them again one day - I have no idea where or when that will be. I just know that I’m comforted by that fact

The Lord Jesus was asked this very question . Here’s His answer-
“For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.”
Mark 12:25

You can read the entire conversation in Mark 12: 18-27.

Hey OP, I am in two minds part of me thinks science and nothing. But there are things that have happened over the years that have made me think there could be something?.

i recently lost my beloved dog,
the day after i felt a plonk on the bed the same exact spot he use to lay on. I was wide awake on my phone when it happened.

I also have done few angel boards over the years with my hand only on the glass. Speaking to loved ones that have passed.

Yes, this. It's just that as humans we have the luck (or more like the curse tbh) of being aware that our place in the world is temporary. I think of my life as just a bubble of sentience existing in nothing. I do sometimes feel sad about dying, but I try to ask myself whether I feel sad about missing all the things that happened before I was born- which, of course, I don't.

@Runsyd would you share, if you remember it?

I was staying with my Dad and about 130 in the morning, he was getting all restless. I tried to him get comfortable. We said some things then he said "my Moms behind you" then called and said "I'm coming now Mom" and died a few minutes after, really peaceful.

I didn't look round, I've no idea what I would have done had I turned and my Nan was there, she had been dead 30 years at that point!

Those that think we have other lives or come back is it always a person, or could it be for example a blackbird or a pesky wasp.