To ask what you really think happens when you die?

[Tunnocks34]

I’d describe myself as agnostic. I’d like to think God exists, and heaven exists but logically I think it’s probably unlikely.

My grandads mum died this week, she was asleep really for her final days, and in the run up to her death she’s been quiet, and not really present, however, the second before she died, she opened her eyes, smiled (her face in all honestly wall almost glowing with joy) and shouted ‘Mama, Mama’ and then she died.

I’d love to think her mum came to get her and take her to heaven or an afterlife but the logics part tells me it was probably something neurological. Might ignore my logical side though because I like the other possibility better!

@ByeMF Definitely without a doubt .
Same for pussycats

I'm torn. On one hand I reckon it's just like when you have an anaesthetic and everything slowly goes black and then nothing, but on the other I've experienced 'happenings' when my beloved grans passed. One was really chatty and happy in her last few days and told my DF 'DH keeps coming to get me but I've told him I'm not ready'. My other gran made herself known in the hours just before she died (she was in a deep sleep). Things like lights going off, me feeling a comforting presence when no one was with me, and my DSis had a dream where she was visited.

What blows my mind more than anything, is the fact that some people will kill others (extremists) in the beliefs they will go to heaven and be treated amazingly having 10 virgins etc 🙄 brainwashed to within an inch if their life and for what?? To rut in the ground and to cease to exist.

Live for the life you have now because there sure isn’t going to be another one.

@susandelgado

I love that!

There’s not an ounce of evidence to suggest otherwise so logic has to prevail. Nothing happens when you die you simply cease to exist is my belief. Once your organs stop working that’s it. I don’t mind that though, it’s not as if you’ll be laying eyes closed, darkest room or ⚰️ thinking ‘is this it’

Just like before you were born. We’ve no recollection.

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But I do believe that your brain can make you live a thousand lifetimes in the time it takes for it to start and finish powering down.

Interesting. So the lives that some of us are currently living could just be perceived lives, lives that are not actually real but the results of our brains shutting down. We could all be dead and not realise it.

Strongly influenced by reading nde accounts, listening to Anita Moorjani, Rich Martini, Penny Sartori, reading books by Brian Weiss and by Peter Fenwick, I believe that the death of the body is our return to our true home, more real than this reality, freedom and love beyond our ability to comprehend (or perhaps to remember) in these physical bodies.
I believe there is a life review where we get to feel the results of our actions from the perspective of others as if we were them (not looking forward to that) but with compassion and understanding, not judgement.

I often think about how unique our planet is. There’s millions just in our solar system alone. I don’t mean in other solar systems too far away for us to know anything about, but our “earth” is the only one that supports life. We have our own moon and sun perfectly aligned to make our planet able to support life.....If the sun was a fraction nearer we’d burn up, a fraction further away, we’d freeze. I would find it too hard to accept that this happened by chance. The odds of this happening by chance are incalculable. It’s like our planet was designed......especially for us.

I once met a woman who was convinced she could remember her past lives. She said that what happens when you die is up to you- if you think you'll cease to exist then you will.

Reincarnation makes most sense to me, I think.

@Kalim8
Same here

My mother died 3 years ago on a glorious spring day in March. Coincidentally in the same place she gave birth to my sibling, it was a maternity home then. I do hope that my father came to take her home, just like he would have done when my sibling was born, and that they walked out into the light together.

Oh I’m so pleased I managed to find this. I promise it’s the last one. This woman’s testimony gave me such hope and comfort. Her words are so profound. What a beautiful soul. I believe every word she says.

I had a near death experience many years ago when I had a severe allergy to the contrast dye injected during a scan. It’s was bloody terrifying. I had a sensation of whizzing backwards at great speed and knew I was dying but unable to tell anyone that I was and to help.

In hindsight the Whizzing backwards feeling was probably the Doctor rapidly tilting the bed to try raise rapidly falling BP.

There wasn’t any of the serenely going through a tunnel of bright light towards awaiting dead rellies.

I worked in a hospice for many years and it's quite common for people in their last days of life to see and feel the presence of relatives.

Sorry I meant to say of relatives who have died before them.

@susandelgado
That's a lovely picture.

That you go out, without a doubt, my father says is the miracle

@SerenDippitty That’s so touching, what a lovely post from start to end. I hope and pray that that’s what happened

I would LOVE to believe that we all meet up again but what happens to those people who say have been married twice, both very happily?

Do both spouses meet you then or what, how does that work?

I don’t think there’ll be those kind of relationships. We’ll meet up with loved ones but all those earthly emotions will be gone. It’ll just be pure love for everyone. We’ll all be individual spirits. Our old earthly lives will be gone or just be nothing like it is here on earth.

I have been reading "the planet factory" a factual book on planet formation - the pure number of stars with planets means that there will be life on other planets & presumably intelligent life if not now either before or later than us.
However, our sun is a third generation star 4 and half billion years old the universe is nearly 14 billion years old - recently astronomers have spotted a second object entering & leaving the solar system from elsewhere - everything is recycled recreated & reformed in our universe almost as though there is a continuous circle of existence. The big bang may be a recycling event caused by a white hole some theorist suggest - the other end of a black hole. I think our existence was almost preordained as though the universe needed something to see it & try to understand it. or something like that...

I believe Christ will make me known to the father and I can stand as one forgiven for whatever is to come.

It gets me through this life because I've experienced Christ's presence.

Might sound nuts but who cares; each to their own.

Exactly the same as what happens when any other animal does. There is absolutely nothing unique or special about human bodies compared to those of dogs or pigs. Your heart stops, respiration ceases, the brain is starved of oxygenated blood, so it shuts down. Your body temperature gradually reaches equilibrium with its environment. Your body slowly starts to decompose, malodorously.

@Iwonder777

Totally agree with you 👍

I feel pretty confident that the answer is 'nothing'.

This is definitley for the best. I can get bored enough in 10 mins waiting for a train - the thought of being 'conscious' for eternity is frankly horrendous.

I find the idea that nothing we do matters quite comforting. I like to look at the stars and think 'no matter how badly I fuck up it will all still just carry on' and then get back to trying to have fun in my life.