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.

[Mummyofpoppets1]

Exactly what happens before we were born, absolutely nothing. As much as I would love to believe there's life after death, it's just not scientifically possible

[Aintnothingbutaheartache]

At the risk of being shite and quoting a musical,
Hand print on my heart 🧙‍♀️ 😉

[Walkingdeadfangirl]

Q: Why does anyone cry at a funeral?
A: Because they will never see that person again.

aka they are dead.

[MarcieBluebell]

For those saying nothing because it was like that before you were born, how do you know?

I wish there was nothing but I think our consciousness, proven to have so many levels like dreams ect, has a purpose. A man in a room all his life has thoughts, he is without action impacting others. What is the point of our minds and inert guilt and own morals and lessons if that's it?

Those looking to Hawking...The beginning of existance was the Big Bang apparently. He deduced black holes could be the opposite. In the latter, matter crushes to the point it doesn't disappear but becomes in a new existance.

We have a brain and a mind. What is the point of the mind?

[Aintnothingbutaheartache]

Nice one Marcie 👍

[IhopeyoulikeNavantoo]

You breathe a massive sigh of relief and your last thought is why did this take so long. My humour is tar.

[RainySeptember]

"Nor me, but i believe in God."

I wish I could, I really do, I think it must be so comforting.

I always wonder, and it's a genuine question not an arsey one, how you choose which being to believe in?

So some people believe in 'a higher power' or 'something', and I can understand that, but not how some people reject a range of gods to settle on their own one true one.

How do people know the universe wasn't started by aliens or fairies or Thor, but by the Christian god, or whoever you believe in?

I've read that back and hope it doesn't sound argumentative or confrontational, I'm genuinely interested.

[Hamiltoes]

Vitalogy fascinating link, thank you! I'd like to think I'm around the number 3 stage but who knows. Some of them definitely rang true with people in my life though, it makes you think..

I'd love to have some past life regression therapy just out of curiousity.

[lazyhazysummer]

Q: Why does anyone cry at a funeral?
A: Because they will never see that person again

Not at all, i cried at my mum and dads funerals, not because i wouldn't see them again, but because i loved them. It's a natural emotion, but i know i'll see them again. I'm as certain as night follows day.
It amazes me how seemingly intelligent people are so blinkered about this. It takes more faith not to believe than to believe itms.

[ImAIdoot]

I believe every one of us will answer to God for the things we have done in our lives, and that basing our lives in hollow faddish morality, atheism, religion, self-satisfied piety or anything else will not change it, that we all know and acknowledge the truth in the end. Essentially "Every knee shall bend".

I also hope to be reunited with loved ones in a good place on the next plane of existence, rather than going somewhere else.

[lazyhazysummer]

Clever boy

[Nannyplumshairstyle]

No idea, I used to be quite Buddhist and believed heartily in rebirth but now I find any kind of religion man-made and absurd.

But having lost my mum a couple of years ago, I see how the people who have loved us really do leave so many gifts with us be it humour or a certain lens to look at thing through that was unique to them.

The gifts my mum has left me with are infinite, they include my sister, my healthy body, the twinkle in my baby's eyes, my joy at life and I am so grateful.

[RainySeptember]

"We have a brain and a mind. What is the point of the mind?"

I feel that the mind is the brain, one and the same, made of the same stuff.

Your brain just plods along acquiring information, putting it all into and out of memories, making connections, firing synapses randomly while you sleep, evolving over millennia to establish self awareness and so on.

When the material brain dies so do all of those connections and memories.

[lazyhazysummer]

Earth is really a school, when we die we'll go back to where we came from, then i think we'll get a choice whether we want to go back (reincarnate) to allow us to reach a higher plain. I think throughout the ages we'll have done this. The higher the plain, the nearer to God.

[NotPerTickly]

Nothing. I get put in the ground and worms eat me. Well - what’s left of me. I’m going off to be used in medical research first.

Anyone who believes in an afterlife or god is a little bit silly.

[Vitalogy]

I'd love to have some past life regression therapy just out of curiousity. It would be interesting.

I heard someone tell about overhearing a child talking to their baby brother saying "Tell me about heaven, I'm forgetting".

[73kittycat73]

As much as I would love to believe there's life after death, it's just not scientifically possible

Again, please provide some links to prove this?

lazyhazysummer thanks for that, I wish I understood it a little more though! (Always been fascinated by physics, just can't get my head round it.)
It takes more faith not to believe than to believe itms.
Couldn't agree more.

[Walkingdeadfangirl]

lazyhazysummer, why would you cry if you were going to see them again?

Is a natural emotion to cry for someone you will miss (for ever)? Not sure its natural to cry for someone that is just on a holiday.

[LellyMcKelly]

I believe that when we die we become nourishment for the life around us. Our bodies become worm food or fertiliser. Our minds live on in our children, families and friends, in what we’ve taught and helped others to learn, the memories we’ve helped to create, and the love we’ve shared. We are part of the ecosystem, and I think that’s pretty awesome. I don’t think we need anything else.

Not only that, but if there was such a thing as heaven and hell, I’d rather be in hell living it up with Elvis and Frank Sinatra, rather than spending eternity in heaven with Ian Paisley and Cliff Richard.

[RainySeptember]

"As much as I would love to believe there's life after death, it's just not scientifically possible

Again, please provide some links to prove this?"

Don't be weird. We're all just talking about what we believe happens after death aren't we? Or must every post begin 'in my opinion'?

[lazyhazysummer]

walkngdead of course you cry, it's natural. It's not like i'm going to see them next week is it. How odd to think believers wouldn't cry at their parents funerals. It might be thirty, forty years before i see them again, and when i do it might not be the same as in parent, child.

[NotPerTickly]

“It takes more faith not to believe than to believe”.

What a stupid thing to say.

[ImAIdoot]

What a stupid thing to say

In fairness there is no position on such matters that is not faith-based except "I do not know".

[Aintnothingbutaheartache]

I cried my bloody eyes out when I lost my mum but she taught me to believe in me, in strength and positivity.
I do, and it’s a huge comfort.
You don’t have to believe in god, reincarnation, spirits and fairies to remember a very special person, what they meant to you, what they represented and the power they had to stay with you always

[73kittycat73]

Don't be weird. We're all just talking about what we believe happens after death aren't we? Or must every post begin 'in my opinion'?

I constantly see on here to believers of 'Prove it!' So, the shoe is on the other foot for now...