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 😆

That’s it exactly. I’m a science graduate atheist. I don’t believe in afterlife but when people die they change. What was them disappears. I can’t define it, but it’s so much more than watching someone sleep.

I found this very comforting, thanks for sharing. Maybe it was a hallucination, with a biological cause. Or maybe not. As said previously, I'm open-minded.

If my relative hallucinated/saw anyone, I know who it would have been, and that it would have been beautiful.

The offer of salvation is open to everyone, absolutely no one is excluded. And it doesn’t depend on any talent or good works -all it takes is the humility to put one’s faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” John 3:16

Those who reject the offer won’t be forced to be with Him. They have chosen to reject Him, and their choice is respected, for eternity.

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.

Sorry tagged the wrong person after you who will probably send me a negative reply lol.

I so much wanted there to be an afterlife when my lovely Dad was going through the process of dieing, but as an atheist, I couldn't make that leap. When he actually stopped breathing (after a few days of being unconscious), there was such a change from being there to not being there that I personally believe there is nothing after death. We die. It stops.

Nothing. It's like falling asleep and you never wake up.

I think we have souls and our bodies are just the vessels for consciousness in a physical sphere. The body eventually dies, and the human consciousness drifts to a mid-place, a place where it experiences complete cleansing of all emotion and trappings of its earthly form. It’s literally stripped of its emotional burdens and all the weight falls off. It becomes very light and in fact, has no real “weight” at all. It is severed from its experiences and is able to detach completely.

The soul is then in a total state of readiness for its question - “what did you learn?” It’s asked this by some powerful but omnipotent force that can’t be seen but is heard in all the corners of the mid-place, and at this point it’s important to state that only the soul and the questioner are present. There are no others.

The soul answers the question, based upon about the things it wished had been better, or that it had done but didn’t. Things that should have been said but weren’t. There isn’t any other question apart from this one. The answer will determine the soul’s form and its destiny in the next earthly life - or indeed, whether it returns. There isn’t any concept of untruth either during this process - the soul can only answer honestly.

We are here to learn. I don’t know what happens once the soul has learnt all it feels it can. Perhaps it is allowed to not return and undergo any more trial and suffering - aka lesson.

The other important point I feel is worth mentioning is that if the soul has had a hard life and many lessons in the earthly sphere (the training ground,) then it may take longer to be cleansed and returned to a state of pure readiness in the mid place.

I know this sounds mad. But I think this is what happens!

When my gran was poorly, we had a camera facing her bed. My mum
Sent me photos of bright orbs on the wall from camera. She said they was floating around on the wall.

On the night she passed, she kept saying she could see my grandad and her guardian angel (apparently was an Indian man) she was very religious. Not sure if she was hallucinating but it did give us comfort that she thought she was going to be with my grandad.

When my other gran passed my child was just two, kept looking up pointing and saying nanny. Again no idea if it was all in her head or not. I have no idea and part of me thinks I would prefer to just go to sleep in peace.

My logical brain says nothing exists after death. But my heart has a super fantasy where everyone I’ve loved who has passed are sat together in heaven, relaxed, chatting, watching us and having cups of tea. Bit like a cafe in a park scene on a casual Sunday morning.

Had to say a hard goodbye to Ddog this morning at the vets- I like to think my Grandma and mums’ best friend (both dog mad) were waiting for him to come to them. I’ve had several imagined scenes this last week as my minds working hard as Ddog has been ill and I’ve been pondering the options for the end. I kept imagining the two of them coming to the gates and seeing if he was coming and then wandering back together chatting saying they’d see him tomorrow perhaps.
I don’t really believe it is true and I’m not religious at all, but it comforts me hugely imagining them all together.

When the nurses came out (he died at home) they said it's normal and could very well have been an hallicination due to the morphine but that his Mom was probably on his mind as he adored her and wanted to see her again

My Mom died earlier this year and swears she she her brother a few times in the weeks leading to her death (he died young) the first time she saw him, she cried as she was happy to see him.

I'm no longer scared of dying because I've got my Mom my Dad, my nephew and my own children who have all passed before me, all waiting to carry me over, nothing scary about that.

Though I'm 43 so I'm hoping for lots more time before I'm there!

But as they have lost their physical bodies, how will we know them and what forms will they take?

Gosh that sounds really stressful! I hope that's not whats to come!

All of our atoms become dispersed into the cosmos to be reborn into a billion different entities, ad infinitum.

As for a soul, I have thought about this a lot and I honestly have no idea. I can’t reconcile if there is a such a thing, that is separate from our physical body, or whether what we think of as our soul is in fact our brain, and once our brain is dead, then whatever is our soul dies along with it.

I wish I believed in heaven, it would be so comforting to think that I’d see my loved ones again. But I just don’t and as much as I try to respect other’s beliefs I just can’t wrap my head around just why you might believe in something so far fetched with absolutely no evidence.. and so very conveniently based around the idea of blind faith being something you’ll end up in heaven for.

That's lovely.

When I was in my 20s I was on holiday, in a deep sleep and there was an earth quake, I woke up crying out for my mum. I think we have a deep rooted connection to that feeling of needing our mums when we're unwell/afraid etc. Even if there's nothing after death, I'd love my final thoughts/hallucinations to be of my mum coming to look after me. I can imagine her being the person I'd really want to look after me through death so it's a comfort to know that the brain creates that for you.

I hope I get to see my dad. He died when I was very young and I never knew him. I like hearing nde stories about people's loved ones meeting them.

Christianity stands alone as the only religion that is not works-based. We cannot do anything to earn our salvation, it is a gift of God through grace alone so that no-one may boast. I can have assurance in my salvation by what Jesus did on the cross and not whether I've prayed enough or knocked on enough doors etc.

That your body goes in a box and is covered in earth. Or burnt and is scattered somewhere you love.

But your soul goes somewhere where all your loved ones are already and you are reunited. And this is my concept of “Heaven”

I like the idea of the Ancient Egyptian?? concept of you are alive until no one mentions your name anymore .

It's very sad, but all we can do is pray for people. It's ultimately their choice to put their faith in God or not.

Oh *@babyproblems
I am sorry for the loss of your DDog.I am a Christian and believe that, after death everyone is absorbed into a divine energy. Atoms, part of me and you and your beloved pet will eventually be dispersed throughout the atmosphere and every thing going forward will contain parts of us.
It is beyond understanding but it is a comfort somehow.

I really can’t be arsed to be conscious for eternity in heaven. What would you do there? Would I be the age I am when I die (I want to be 90+)?? Also would we have to witness the demise of the human race, ultimately the death of the planet, and then what, we’ll just hurtle through space forever? And then inevitably get sucked into a black hole and discover what all that’s about? Ugh I just want a rest honestly.

This.

Good god no. I can't do all my ex-boyfriends again. It would kill me. Then it would start again. No no no.

There’s a lot to unpack here but I’m just going to say two words to you.
Just for starters.
Ruth and Esther.
look them up.

But they aren't sleeping they are dead.

They change because they stop breathing, their heart stops beating and their brain is no longer functioning. All the tiny things you would have perseved as them are no longer there. Your brain is processing a dead body, and nature is good at understanding death. Obviously they don't look like someone sleeping

The brain is someone's personality. That's why people can completely change after a brain injury, or a stroke/tumor/dementia. There's no innate soul.