...to ask what happens when you die?

[TeaAndAMarmiteSandwhich]

... or more accurately, what you think happens?

I really really don't want to die (a good thing I guess! As I wasn't too bothered either way as a moody teen, but now I love life most of the time and want to hang around).

It's comforting to think there's a heaven, but I don't believe there is (and I'd probably get bored if I had to stay there for EVER). But when u die - is that it? Game over ? I'm not too keen on that idea either.

What do you think happens? and what would you like to think happens?

I don't remember the 13-14 billion years of the universe before my birth, I feel I won't be around for the many trillions of years after my death.

I actually take comfort in complete oblivion. I have no bad memories of before being born.

liz70 interesting post, it's never happened to me, but to my DD who was very close to my mum.

Do you mean feeling the pressure, buttercup? I guess in isolation it was pretty freaky, but by this point I'd been having communication in various forms for several years, so I wasn't overly phased by it, more like, oh, hullo, this is something new! So, I know that this person, who has been in spirit form for over a decade now, can see with eyes, optic nerves etc, hear without ears, Eustachian canals etc, and "press" down on a surface without having physical form. How do they do it? I don't have a clue, I just know that they can because I've experienced it for myself. It's baffling and fascinating all at once, and I wish I understood it a bit better, but I suspect that I'm unlikely to, in this life at least.

Well I'm hoping that the aliens that deposited me here in the first place will come back and pick me up.

@MrsTerryPratchett that's fabulous!

I felt seriously bereaved when Terry Pratchett died

I also like to believe that, whatever someone believes will happen, will happen.

So if you believe nothing, there will be nothing. If you believe in heaven, you'll go to your version of it. If you believe in reincarnation, you'll be reincarnated.

Based on that, you'll find me in my heaven, on a hot beach with a cool breeze, swinging gently in a hammock with an endless supply of books, music, chocolate, wine and fags. Being served by Robert Downey Jr. And I'll have a cracking tan.

I don't remember the 13-14 billion years of the universe before my birth, I feel I won't be around for the many trillions of years after my death. I actually take comfort in complete oblivion. I have no bad memories of before being born.

This. I find the fleetingness and unimportance of individual human lives comforting. It makes little day-to-day worries (and even quite big ones) seem more trivial. I like the fact that I am a tiny dot in an endless universe stretching across millennia of time. It means that anything I achieve in life is a bonus, but if I don't do anything earth-shattering or if things go wrong, it won't matter in the grand scheme of things!

Shakey15000 I like your heaven. Can I come? I ll be down the beach but not too intrusive. Can I also request some cheese?

Cheese-check

I realise that I haven't answered exactly what happens on the point of death, but there is plenty of literature out there to read for those who are interested. I've simply relayed my personal experiences with ADC, which prove to me that we continue to exist following our mortal death, because if we ceased to, this person wouldn't be able to do the numerous things they have, over the past ten years since their "death". But hey, I could tell them that they don't exist any more, but I imagine they'd be highly amused, and probably again let me know in no uncertain terms that they most definitely do.

I was with my mum when she died. I wish I could report some sense of her soul leaving her and going to a better place, but the reality was that she just faded away before our eyes. Just an enormous sense of loss.

Since having children I’ve found myself calling upon my memories of her more often during tough times, funny times or when there are decisions to be made. She lives on in the way I live my life and raise my kids.

Chedder, gouda, jarlsberg, Harlech, Roquefort, Caerphilly, Leicester, Double Gloucester, yarg, halloumi, feta, Stilton, Wensleydale, Edam, brie, camembert, gorgonzola, even kraft slices for heavens sake. All good.
Ps May need some crackers

I've posted this before, I love it. Alan Watts.

Sorry lookingforthecorkscrew that was insensative timing. Maybe you will see your mum again. Its a possible bonus. Otherwise we can always treasure memories

Froglet No offence taken! Love a bit of cheese! 🧀

Gosh - am I the only spiritual one here?

I'm not sure precisely what happens or where one goes. But I do believe, for a number of reasons, that some kind of soul moves on (and occasionally visits the living; not as a ghost but a presence).

Part of being human is the limitations in what we can perceive or "sense" outwith the boundaries of our physical body and senses. There are occasional glimpses, but really we are mostly locked into our physical world, and rarely perceive much beyond it. So I wouldn't really expect to be able to "see" or "sense" a soul leaving a person - that's just not really within our capabilities in our mortal form.

I haven’t debunked your experiences liz70, so please don’t try to ‘enlighten’ me about mine.

I won't be dictated to as to what I can't post on a thread relating to after death matters, if I think it is relevant, which I think it is.

liz70 i think sometimes the spirits of loved ones manages to slip through, i think they're always around us but in a different dimension?, just that most of us don't know how to see them. My dd has had quite a few "experiences", probably just because she's somehow more tuned in itms.

Gosh - am I the only spiritual one here? No, sounds like there's a few including me.

I think we move on to the next stage. I have no idea what that is, or even where. But i dont think it is the end.
We might not have any memory of what we were before who and what we are now, but that doesnt mean to say that our souls didnt learn.
I think life is a learning curve for whatever is next in store for us.

I also think we are connected to certain people throughout each exisitence. Family especially. Not just in life as we know it, but life before and life after

It isn't for you or anyone to try and explain away what was a very harrowing experience for me, liz70, in fact it shows you to be insensitive - a far cry from the person you claim to be on here.

Nobody has the right to challenge others on their experiences, just to relay their own.

I definitely think some people are more in tune with other realms, especially children as they aren't so disconnected and haven't been away so long.