what do you think happens after death?

[Goldyyup]

Only interested in perspectives if you think something happens after death not the perspectives where people think it is just the end.

"I know the ones who love us will miss us."
Keanu

Just nothing at all would be better than living.

What about an afterlife of karma where you get back everything you have given to others whilst alive? The same kindness, compassion, charity etc. you gave out is repaid (or not). Some say we are now in the afterlife in the Catholic idea of purgatory and being given another chance to get it right.

So tell me this ~ assume you’re happily married and are widowed. After a time you wed again and are happy. You pop your clogs and husband no. 1 is waiting for you. What happens to poor no. 2 husband when he dies? Is he a spare wheel for all eternity?

Asking for opinions but only certain ones.... What's the point?
You stop breathing, you die, end of. It's just biology

If there was another life - what would sustain us? How would we compete for space and resources? Or would be just be floating benignly in an ever expanding cloud of righteousness?

Reincarnation

I'm religious, so I believe we will all stand in front of God in the hereafter, and be held accountable for all the shit we thought we'd get away with in this life. I believe none of us will get away with the evils and sins we commit in this life, unless we have repented them sincerely before we leave this Earth.

I like to think (hope?) it's similar to the moment before you fall asleep, do you know when you run through the days events or a memory or you recall a moment? And then you don't remember anything? I hope it's like that; I also like to think our conscious goes "back" to a collective, back to where ever we existed before we arrived. I sometimes wonder when I get that feeling of déjà vu or my hairs on the back of my arm stick up I do wonder if it's because I've lived before ?

You get to choose - you can either come back to earth as a typical cat, shit in people's gardens, knock stuff off shelves, be generally grumpy and plot to take over the world... or you come back as spaniel, you'll be a bit stupid and will eat some really rank stuff when you're out walking but you'll be so bouncy and happy, your ears will flapping in the wind and you'll be absolutely living your best life.

Pretty sure that's what happens. (I'll go for the spaniel option).

In the soil, back into the cycle of energy - food for insects etc

We're no different to any other life - no God, just the earth, no heaven, just back into soil and we never know any different as well be dead.

Personally I love that simplicity of science- we go to the earth. Very natural.

I wish people's didn't need the crutch of organised religion as there is no need. Science is special enough.

I like to think that on the moment of death, all the truths about the world and the universe flood your brain and you are immediately enlightened about everything that's happened during your time on earth so far.
Once it's all sunk in, the lights go out and your soul morphs into the next human about to be born, or transcends to nirvana - depending on how far along the journey to enlightenment your soul is.

And this is exactly why organised religion is so awful. Telling people they have sinned is just ridiculous. Enjoy your life. Have fun. Be kind. You're not doing anything wrong or sinful and don't let them think you are. People shouldn't be encouraged to feel shame.

Obviously the exception is that some people are entirely awful human beings. In the animal world, they'd be expelled from the group and possibly killed.

Exactly this. I lost my mum when I was 21. I was with her and she was talking to her mum just before she died. It was as if her mum had come to get her. I had to believe that I would see my mum again at that age, because I honestly don't think I'd be here right now if I hadn't believed that.

I don't believe in heaven or hell, and I'm not sure if there is anything afterwards, but I hope that when my time comes that my mum comes to get me, even if it is just an hallucination.

This is what I think, for no particular reason other than I think about this sort of thing endlessly (because I find it fun 😆) and this is the conclusion I’ve drawn. I reckon we’re all a little chip off the block of a collective consciousness- a bit like god, but the collective consciousness has ‘good’ aspects and ‘bad’ aspects, just like a human. I find myself generally inclined to believe in a higher power, so to speak, but I doubt it’s a wholly benevolent deity given all the suffering in the world. When we die, I reckon we either rejoin the whole, a bit like a raindrop falling back into the ocean, or go round again to continue our contribution to the collective experience.

Brain activity has been detected in pigs for up to four hours post mortem.

I think my life is influenced by dead people who I’ve known. My friend died and I am shaped by our friendship and her death.
My hope is that I will do the same so I try to be a positive presence in my time here.

After death you live on in memory only.
I think your time is over when the last person speaks your name.

My loved one died twice on the operating table, was revived, and talked at length on his experience of floating, feeling overwhelmingly loved, and with other relatives who had died. He died again, finally, last year, and I like to think he’s back in the place he described and we’ll see each other again when I die.

so because all these murderers and rapists and whatever else they’ve done should show remorse, that entitles them to a place in heaven ? I just don’t get that . What when they meet their victims in heaven ?

So sorry for your loss OP and I really hope that for you and your Mum as well xx

I don't know what there is, but I am convinced there is something. The main reason for this is that sometimes when you enter the room after someone has died (in my case this was usually to confirm time of death) you are entering a room where you can still feel a person is in there, and other times it is entering an empty room. I can only account for it by sometimes the soul lingering, just a little while. But don't ask me what a soul is.

I died once - I know that sounds all melodramatic, but I had a massive cardiac arrest, proper "drop to floor dead" stuff, and an only here because of the speedy arrival of a paramedic who zapped me with a defibrillator and got me back.
Anyway, there was nothing. No tunnel, no light, no loved ones waiting, just nothing.... And even so, knowing that, I choose to believe everyone gets their own "heaven" - they go wherever they most want to go.
I worked as a carer, and have seen some very "odd" thing happen as people die, so I can still believe in something more, something after.
It comforts me, and nobody can say I'm wrong, and that's enough for me.

I believe in heaven and he'll,I hope that for a time at least we get to check in and see what goes on after we die,also want to meet up with others who have already died.

I'd quite like a bit of nothing tbh. I'm exhausted !

What if you don't get on with your loved ones or just bicker?!