What do you think happens when we die?

[Faith]

The question is fairly self explanatory. I saw this asked somewhere before and was shocked at the volume of people who believe that we just cease to exist. I think I have to believe that life has a point, it's not just that we're born and then we die. I like to think that there is some kind of heaven waiting for us afterwards. Perhaps not the stereotypical one, perhaps there's no God there waiting for us, but I believe that the soul goes somewhere peaceful and happy.

Life is depressing enough without thinking this is it, as far as I'm concerned.

So, what do you think happens?

[happy joy joy]

honestly i think after death that its. no big whoha in the sky , just nothing.

Life is depressing enough without thinking this is it, as far as I'm concerned


jees what else ya want? what wrong with what we got?

[osiris]

I don't know what I believe in when you die. It is horrible to think that you just stop existing and there is a nothing, a void.

There has to be some sort of something surely. Well I would hope so anyway

[happy joy joy]

na i think it just all made up by people that are afraid of dieing.

oh im off the next plain and all bull.

i say when the lights go out thats it and all about it

[Faith]

I'm in no way afraid of my own death and yet I believe that there's something afterwards. It would be so utterly pointless if there wasn't. It's like, okay we're born with a consciousness, live for however long battling through the trials and tribulations that life throws at us and then we die... and that's it. That simply can't be it.

I don't understand why you say that belief in some form of afterlife is just a fear of death. Surely there's nothing to fear if you believe we just cease to exist? There would only be fear if you believe A) that you're going to hell, or B) you'll retain your consciousness (or soul, depending on what you believe) and just be trapped in the dead shell of your body forever.

[happy joy joy]

cant see why there should be something after this? why should there be?

its like think you deserve more?

isnt just living and having a conscious enough?

i think its plenty enough.

like there was something after this thats better, why dont we all just go jump off cliffs and what not? to get there?

ya it would be great if we move on the the big parthy in the sky after this but im not banking on it. so i plan on sticking around as long as posable.

like heven and hell? isnt it a little too much to send someone off to hell for etrunity for there sins, ok they may of been right cunts when alive but punishment for ever? little harsh me thinks.

(ya ranting a little)

may i die a young mans death

[DHBH]

i have two theories.
and neither are really religious as i am not

firstly i think that people who believe there is nothing after dont believe that they themselves are going to be left floating in the spiritual strasphere. perhaps they believe when you are gone you are gone but you arent aware of it if you get me, so hence you cant be sad.

my thoughts,
i think you may never feel "dead" or in limbo. that you may die and immeadiately you are born elsewhere, but as a different person, different life. so if i enjoy music in this life i may loath it in the next. reincarnation of sorts but that word adds all kind of bollix to the theory too. so lets say the spirit of maedhbh will then follow on and be the same spirirt that minds little influenze from mexico in 60 years time when she is born. but we are different people. and will never know anythng about eachother.

second theory is that you go to a "place" where you were most happy in your life. per se i might me wearing my favourite pair of jeans that eventually had to be binned, with all my animals from the years. with a massive fuck off IPod with subwoofers. there would be barrys tea and cider on tap and there would be a chinese that always had wantons at the ready. my firends would be there and i would have an off road dirt track for mountaineering in one of my many off road vehicles. i would also have some nice sportscars, id take a DBS like. scruffles would be there as well as a com[puter console with games that i could not finish and there would be a beach too fro fecking about.

or else we just end.

my aunt always believed when we were gone we were gone. she died in 1998, doesnt explain why the biatch was standing in my bedrrom two weeks before my dad died in 2002 tho. nobody has ever vome back to tell us so we can but guess.

[Lina]

This is something I think about a lot.
I hope that when I get old, I get to the stage where I'm ready to die. I tell myself that I'm only scared of death because I'm young and I still want to live the rest of my life.
Something that I want to know though, is how it feels to die. What happens? Do you just.. fade away?

What I would like to do after I die is go to some sort of heaven. But I feel that if I had no religious knowledge I'd never think of heaven. And what would heaven actually be? If you die old, do you go to heaven old? My vision of heaven is basically just..Earth, but with no problems.

But, this is probably one of the reasons I'm not religious, there's no scientific explanation. Unless you go into some sort of cataleptic state..So you don't really die at all.
However, part of living is to die at some point in your life. Maybe you just go, and it's just like falling asleep. The thing is, you have to die before you find out.

And this thing with ghosts etc, I think that is just somebody's imagination, even if you're not consciously knowing it. No explanation to that either..

[Jack B. Badd]

I saw this asked somewhere before and was shocked at the volume of people who believe that we just cease to exist.

Would ceasing to exist be such a bad thing? You certainly wouldn't have any regrets if that's what happened.
Personally, I believe in some kind of an afterlife but haven't really ever thought through the specifics and when it comes down to it, I acknowledge that this belief is possibly little more than a useful crutch to help me live my life happily.

[pablo]

what I think happens : you die, you rot a little, worms eat you
what I would like to think : you go to a happy place, where you can eat all the food you want and not have to pay for it. I think I would call it Hea-ven .