What do you think happens when we die?

[Frosty6611]

Just had this discussion with my DP and mum and we all had a completely different answers.

I believe in reincarnation.

My DP is an atheist and believes nothing happens.

My mum believes in heaven/hell.

[QuackPorridgeBacon]

FrazzledRockRed

The Egg
By: Andy Weir

Wow, that was brilliant to read. Fascinating, I’ve so many questions lol

[ExBbqQueen]

Interesting discussion.

My grandad said his mum & brother were waiting for him a few days before he died. Comforting I think.

[Earthmover]

Probably more to do with the fact some peoples near death experience involves a catastrophic shut down that occurs in seconds. E.g heart failure where they go from consciousness to comatose in a matter of seconds(had a relative that just switched off like this and remembers nothing) leaving little time to experience the bodies natural pain suppressors, which I suspect invoke the hallucinatory sensations of lights in tunnels and dead relatives.
I'd imagine those that have an ailment that results in a prolonged near death experience would be more likely to experience the results of the brains chemicals that kick in to suppress the discomfort of the extreme event.

[73kittycat73]

Some people swear they don't dream - but they do. We could say that perhaps PomBear just didn't remember anything?

[RainySeptember]

Maybe the NDE is just a figment of our dying imagination, or a surge of dopamine, or wishful thinking.

[Vitalogy]

Maybe some NDA experiences the soul doesn't leave the body. Whereas the ones that have had an experience the soul leaves the body then re enters it.

[lazyhazysummer]

Well we could say the same thing if we were all heading for nothing. If nobody had had any experiences this might be more logical, but so many have had them. Surely positives outweigh negatives?

[RainySeptember]

We're all a product of our experiences though lazy.

Pombear died and experienced nothing so nobody can really be surprised that her conclusion is that there is probably nothing.

Which has made me wonder, why is there such a wide variety of experience for those who have experienced death? If we were all heading off on the same afterlife truth-at-last journey wouldn't our experiences all be the same?

[Vitalogy]

Kids can be more insightful with these things, they're closer to it and less corrupted.

[lazyhazysummer]

pombear Obviously not everyone experiences the same thing. Just because you didn't experience anything doesn't there is nothing. Plenty more DO.

[politicalcorrectnessisgreat]

I asked my DD what she thinks happens, she said that she believes in reincarnation but not limited to the creatures on the planet we live on so she is hoping to be some kind of alien

[PomBearWithAnOFRS]

I haven't RTFT so nuke me! but I died, for several minutes, on my living room floor, (I have posted this several times before, so sorry if I bore anyone ) and then I was lucky enough to be one of the 10-15% of people who are "brought back" by a defibrillator and the wonderful wonderful paramedic who arrived to treat me. I had a full on cardiac arrest and heart attack (which are not the same thing, as I found out later) and was basically dead until the BANG of the defibrillator restarted my heart.
I WISH I could say there was a light/tunnel/loved ones gone before etc but there wasn't...
It was just nothing, then an almighty BANG (from the defib machine) then the paramedic saying "say Goodbye to Mummy" to my children before I was stretchered out and blu-lighted to hospital.
In my heart of hearts, I believe that Heaven IS there (in a "Brothers Lionheart (book reference) way) and that one day I will sit by a river, in the sun, fishing with my late Dad and go home to an idyllic cottage with my whole family waiting for me, but deep down where it counts, I have "been there, done that" and there was nothing - no light, no tunnel, no glorious reunion, just nothing.
That said, I guess at least eternal peace and rest is better than most all of the various religious alternatives...

[2018SoFarSoGreat]

Muddling I do so hope so 💐

[QuackPorridgeBacon]

I’m not religious and so I don’t believe in heaven etc. I do think it must be nice to believe in heaven though, the comfort it must bring. To be reunited with family and I’m guessing friends. I just don’t belive in it and do think there is just nothing. To me, just nothing sounds more scary, almost traumatic. Like, that’s just it, it’s over.

[MuddlingThroughLife]

Thank you everyone for your kind words x

[Aintnothingbutaheartache]

Earth has it occurred to you that people need religion and God?
Losing a loved one is something that really affects you, we expect to lose parents but to lose a child is beyond understanding for anyone who hasn’t experienced it.
I don’t think science comes near to explaining the total black, hopeless void that we feel when a death seems so pointless and bleak.
Religion can be a landline

[Earthmover]

My mind truly boggles at the specifics stated by some of the posters on this thread.
I just cannot comprehend how so many can make such detailed statements in reference to religion and God when we've only been here for a tiny amount of time and are willing to invest so much trust in the reliability of sources that lived thousands of years ago.
BTW it's not intended as a criticism. I'm just genuinely mystified.

[lolalotta]

muddling I hope you do too.

[lazyhazysummer]

Wonderful, yes i like that.

[FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast]

if it gives you help and comfort, like a night light in the dark for children, carry on.

[lazyhazysummer]

You're entitled to your opinion. i'm not going to pursade you otherwise. No more to be said.

[Bibesia]

I don't know why people think that God should make earth a kind of paradise.

Because, if God exists, he is supposed to be omnipotent but also beneficent. And the available evidence indicates that he can't be both, and may not be either. So why should he be worshipped?

But, on a personal level, I don't actually think that. I think by far the more likely explanation that doesn't necessitate quite extraordinary amounts of logic-twisting is, quite simply, that there is no God.

[FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast]

I believe that when you die, you die and that is the end of you.
the afterlife will be the same as the 'before life' eg nothing.