What Do You Think Happens To Us After We Die?

"Your" consciousness will just be conscious of something else.

But you as an ego/personality will cease to exist.
 
You go in the ground, and that's it man. After life concept is neat, but I've never seen anything that makes me think it's true.
 
Loiosh said:
I had a near death experience not long ago, and every night going to sleep I was sure I would never wake.

The void is terrifying once you realize it's real, and it's waiting for you.

In the vastness of the universe, we are utterly insignificant.
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I know what you are talking about, once i experienced it i dont think i can ever go back to living my life as (presumably) immortal. Time just seems so short now, and i am only 27.

I even think i got some weird permanent anxiety now.
 
Someone or something had to create all of this. I can't believe it's just by some chance that we're here.
 
I don't know.

I believe in a God, but am unsure as to whether there is a heaven, hell or afterlife in the conventional sense (or what the admisisons requirements are for the afterlife after party).

I know I derive comfort in thinking that there is a place where our loved ones go when they die, removed of any pains and afflictions. I think I use that more as a coping mechanism to better manage my grief and sense of loss.

As for what I want to have happen to my actual body upon death, if I'm young enough where my organs/body parts are of use to somebody, then harvest what's left of me. If I'm old, I like the idea of being buried at sea.
 
lol a lot of people itt seem pretty confident in their absolute knowledge of the metaphysical
 
Loiosh said:
I had a near death experience not long ago, and every night going to sleep I was sure I would never wake.

The void is terrifying once you realize it's real, and it's waiting for you.

In the vastness of the universe, we are utterly insignificant.
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I understand exactly. But I think we may have that fear because we aren't meant for finite lives like this. I'm starting to think there's a duality to the universe, God exists in a state of waves, everything that ever was or could be, and by His will do things exist as they are. I think when we die, we probably have a unique electrical signature, we probably go back in to the earth like everyone figures, but I think we are pulled back in to God as a whole. We may be remade on a more permanent world like Christian teachings, but I think we exist with God in the void, infinitely, regardless of this temporary world.
 
Rusk said:
"Your" consciousness will just be conscious of something else.

But you as an ego/personality will cease to exist.
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If we are part of a great being, and the way humans operate in numbers seems to support this, then it would make sense for us to go back in to one. It's terrifying to think of the loss of self, but we would become so much more.
 
faustian said:
lol a lot of people itt seem pretty confident in their absolute knowledge of the metaphysical
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Nah, the thread title is "what you THINK happens"... it is obvious that nobody knows.
 
Slick_36 said:
If we are part of a great being, and the way humans operate in numbers seems to support this, then it would make sense for us to go back in to one. It's terrifying to think of the loss of self, but we would become so much more.
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Well if we are part of a great being then we are so much more already. :)
 
Slick_36 said:
I understand exactly. But I think we may have that fear because we aren't meant for finite lives like this. I'm starting to think there's a duality to the universe, God exists in a state of waves, everything that ever was or could be, and by His will do things exist as they are. I think when we die, we probably have a unique electrical signature, we probably go back in to the earth like everyone figures, but I think we are pulled back in to God as a whole. We may be remade on a more permanent world like Christian teachings, but I think we exist with God in the void, infinitely, regardless of this temporary world.
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My mother has spent a lot of time in hospitals with people on their last days.

I kind of don't want to post this.

Movies taught me that you find acceptance in your very old age, and that death is seen as your final comfort and release.

My mother told me that most of the people she has seen die were terrified right up until the end and desperately wanted to live.

I honestly wish she had never told me that.
 
You guys talking about worms and bugs are fucking imbeciles. The bacteria in our own stomach will break us down just as quickly as any nightcrawler.
 
You become organic matter.
Plants & insects feed off your nutrients, and you eventually decompose into nothing.
 
Loiosh said:
My mother has spent a lot of time in hospitals with people on their last days.

I kind of don't want to post this.

Movies taught me that you find acceptance in your very old age, and that death is seen as your final comfort and release.

My mother told me that most of the people she has seen die were terrified right up until the end and desperately wanted to live.

I honestly wish she had never told me that.
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It's only natural. Self preservation. The will to be. As long as we're here, we'll have a flawed understanding of it. Our bodies were made for this, our spirit wasn't.
 
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