According to you, what happens when you die?
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Half of the time I look forward to my death, it doesn't scare me since I don't see the real point of my life, what scares me is if my agony would be slow and painful.
But then what? I just stop existing and it's like I fell asleep? Do I see light? Darkness? Nothing? What is nothing?
Okay please don't make fun of me but:
I think there will be some sort of re-incarnation. Like not religiously, but like as property of science that we still have yet to discover.
Like I do not believe in dieties, and I don't have any religions, but I think there are some "energy" that makes up "you" and when you die, that "energy" kinda just float around like the many cosmic particles that goes around the universe randomly. Since there's gravity on Earth, this "energy" likely aren't gonna go outside of the Earth. So that "energy" will randomly find it's way into a living being when its bring conceived, very likely somewhere nearby the location of your death.
Like think about it.
Are you really only gonna exist once.
Dead for billions of years --> Alive Now --> Dead for the rest of eternity?
OR
Dead --> Alive --> Dead again --> Alive again --> ... (repeating forever)
I mean, you won't remember anything, its like you are a camera that is recording (aka: experiencing existence), but you lose the SD card (memories) at every re-incarnation.
Okay I know I sound like I'm inventing another religion 😅, but like scientists didn't even know about atoms and the electron confugurations until like the last few hundred years, who knows... maybe eventually we'll find the secret "energy" of life 🤷♂️
So TLDR: I believe you get get "re-incarnated" as a random living being near where you died.
(I mean... it's a great way to deal with death anxiety. So maybe I just re-invented religion again 🙃)
Edit: So I guess, if you are gonna believe my theory, your goal in life should be to pass on as much knowledge you can gather. Write an autobiography, document your entire life. Archive every news story, and media, movie, TV shows, games, anything you enjoyed or anything you think other people should know. Imagine you are attempting to pass this knowledge on to a future re-incarnation of yourself.
Well, I'd better be s dog then!
I think its like being anesthesized or a high dose of nitrous, consciousness slowly fades away, its a bit trippy, can be scary, and then youre gone. Depends on the circumstances though, some deaths are probably a lot quicker than others and you wouldnt feel a thing.
So many people claiming such certainty of what happens. I personally have no idea. But it might be better than this life, so I'm not dreading it.
We'll be resurrected and face judgement before God, all who have sinned will be found guilty and cast away to hell, except those who have repented and came to Jesus for forgiveness of sins - in which Jesus will have already paid the punishment for.
Imma let you finish, but Neo had the best 'died and resurrected for our sins' arc of all time.
We get judged and are either accepted into one of the three levels of Heaven or face punishment if we were exceptionally twisted.
The connections in my brain that made me me will fail and I will cease to exist, same as before I existed.
Nothing. Was in the hospital for a heart attack last year, my heart stopped for 8 seconds. I was 100% completely unaware. Was told later what had happened.
Over 4 minutes for me. Can confirm, no concept of time. I slowly became aware of a noise that turned out to be my own breath from chest compressions. Then I became present again.
Hope your doing well!
Some days are more challenging than others, I spent the last two weeks with the flu and WANTED to die. ;)
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Anesthesia is different from sleep.
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Yes, *assuming*, because *you* never got an EEG that measured which parts of your brain were active while you slept. Which, wait... Scientists have actually done! Wow, surprise 😐. Who could've known it.
Fucking dumbass.
E: Hey that's new, getting downvoted for correcting unscientific wishful thinking magical xmas-land-mumbo-jumbo. Enjoy your minerals and tarot cards, you litany of buffoons 🙄...
Nah, you got downvoted because you are rude.
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I'll be in the same place I was before I was born.
The ~40% of me that are Microbes are going to have a field day.
You become what you were before you were conceived.
Either of two things:
Nothing. However, I don't think most people quite grasp the meaning of that. Kind of how they think that before the big bang there was just empty space. No, empty space is not nothing. There's no empty space, there's no time, there's nothing. By definition it cannot be experienced. Experience simply ends. It's as if nothing ever happened. The universe could just as well have never existed.
The more optimistic theory is that consciousness is in a way immortal. You can only experience being, not not-being. It's kind of how when you go under general anesthesia and then wake up it's quite unlike sleeping. When you've slept you have the sense of time having passed in between. With general anesthesia this is not the case. One moment you feel sleepy and then you wake up in another room. From your subjective experience you never lost consciousness to begin with. Whose to say that something similar doesn't happen with death. Instead of experience ending it just moves elsewhere. It's a pretty difficult concept to explain but it's somewhat similar to the idea of quantum immortality.
Its a state equivalent to before you were born. Its feels exactly as it felt back then. That is the nothing.
If, and that's a big if, you don't remember a thing, then things could have happened that you won't remember.
I don't actually believe that this is what happened, but it's not the rational slam dunk one might think it is.
I wish it is that way though. I don't want to relive the experience I went through earlier in my life.
yeah all the same things could happen after death you don't remember now. It is what it is. The universe does not really care how we interpret entropy.
The mind is what the brain does .
When the brain stops doing, the mind stops being.
There is no darkness, there isn't even nothing, because there's no you to experience it.
Where do the ripples on a pond go if the water dries up? There are no ripples, because there's no longer a pond for them to be on.
It's such a weird concept to get our heads around but this is it, and I personally find it quite comforting. It's just very hard to explain why!
When you die, your brain dumps dopamine and you enter a euphoric state in the brief moments before you’re technically dead.
Time is relative for every entity, according to the theory of general relativity. I posit that as you die, your personal timeline extends to infinity. The state of euphoria is therefore permanent to you, the experiencer. It’s not heaven, but for you it might feel like it.
Additionally, every neuron fires as your brain gives out, so during that personal eternity your life is "flashing before your eyes". If this reflection on your life fills you with contentment, that is heaven. If it fills you with shame and regret, that is hell.
When you die you simply wake up in the nearest universe where you didn’t die.\
Death is an objective event. It never happens subjectively.
In everyone else’s experience, you die. Your body becomes a corpse and you are no longer there.\
In your own experience, you don’t die. The gun doesn’t fire. The car crash never happens. You somehow walk away from the train derailment. Your cancer clears up.\
Death exists for other people, never for the self.
Eventually, you become the only living human. You are eternal.\
After millions of years, you accumulate enough power to create new people. You do this so you don’t have to be alone. You are now God.
My family will be very sad.
Do you remember what it was like before you were conceived? Like that.
Fair enough, I wish it is that way!
Sounds like someone elses problem at that point.
Nothing.
The game will be over, I will remove the VR headset, and continue living my real life. I’m sure in time the memories will fade.
You've lived a long life, but a settlement needs your help! Here, I'll mark it on your map.
What I think or what I hope?
I think it will be just like before I was born. I will become nothing.
I hope that I'm wrong and I will be reunited with my loved ones.
I know that the people who love you will miss you.
You're dead
You don't experience anything, not even a sense of 'nothing'.
I have an opinion on this, but it saps all the fun out of the discussion when the question is asked by someone who gets no enjoyment out of their life. I'd rather you get professional mental health than have a bunch of people on the Internet assure you that death will be the end of your suffering.
It's just nothing.
Asking what you experience after death is a nonsensical question, you don't experience anything at all.
What did you see/hear/feel/experience back in 1066 during the Norman Conquest of England?
You weren't there, you weren't alive then, so you didn't experience anything at all.
That same sort of non-experience is what awaits you after death.
How do you know? Can you prove it?
I have no way to tell, one way or another, so I'm not saying you are objectively wrong.
But you sound... Categorical.
Fertilizer.
Sweet, silent oblivion.
If I'm wrong I'm gonna go full on Karen on whatever jackass is in charge.
Whatever it was like before you were born. You return to that, literally nothing to be afraid of
I believe it's very similar to falling asleep, and you may even tap into a dreamlike state of consciousness depending on your circumstances. Eventually, your self awareness stops and fades into nothingness. What you see if anything at all, and what your perception of time is or how self aware of the situation you are will depend a lot on the circumstances of the death and your individual make up, the same way not everyone dreams the same way or even remembers dreaming at all.
I think that it is exactly the same as before you were born.
I've died. It's a permanent state of unconsciousness. No thoughts. No dreams. No life flashing before your eyes. Just nothing.
Wait… you all don’t know?
Either nothing or everything.
"What happens when you die" - I assume you mean after you die (not during), and to your consciousness, your awareness rather than your body.
The same as before you came to be. Not like you fell asleep; you're gone.
I think i'll just stop existing at some point. Maybe there'll be some pseudo visual sensations ('light') as I die but other than that I don't expect any kind of 'after life'.
I think we shouldn't be scared of death but still try to enjoy our limited lifetime as much as we can. If you feel depressed continously, I can only advise you to seek help. Life shouldn't be like that. If you have friends or family that you trust, tell them how you feel. In case you don't, that's okay. You may reach out to professional organisations or helplines instead. :)
My conscience ends.
If the materialists are right, the atoms I'm made of end up reforming my conscience into another mortal coil as a matter of statistics.
If they're wrong and there's a spirit that's not bound to the material world, I end up living inside another hull that accepts consciousness. Repeatedly. Could be human, alien, or that of an animal.
If that happens, I want to live in a world that respects all consciousness.
There will persumably be a funeral, my remaining family and friends will grieve and divide my up my things, several of which I doubt they will ever really use.
I'll be dead and won't care.
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From my perspective, the universe – including myself – ceases to exist.
From the perspective of the universe: entropy.
Whatever happens, I just hope it’s graceful and as painless for others as possible.
Nothing, just like the thing you experienced before you were born.
I like to think it's this... Kurtzgesagt - The Egg
Here's a link to the original short story https://galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
The simlutation terminates.
Main character syndrome?
you become dead
Each breath is slower than before, your mind enters a mist, friends surround you but not you, they are distant
You focus, focus once more, your pupils dilate as you stare into your first born daughter, then onto your grandson, they seem almost frozen, their mouths move to talk yet it's incomprehensible
Their lips slap together at an excruciatingly slow pace, then as a final pang of pain enters around your chest, you feel your time stop
The mist encroaches further.
I think this is probably a dream. Who knows what's on the other side. Animals are really good at experiencing severe pain and forgetting about it. I wouldn't worry about that. Life is a joke, so laugh at it.
Our soul is weighed against a feather by the holy mother. Not like Mary or whatever, the real all powerful 5th dimension all is one in time and space holy mother.
If our soul tips the scale against one's favor then you are reincarnated... you're reincarnated into tge sane family however the dynamics keeps changing each time you're born. You're sister might be your brother next time and you're a wife in one life then maybe a fatherless uncle in the next. Anyway once we achieve enlightenment, we are given a choice, stop the cycle or keep going
But it's a *really heavy* feather.
My wife and I have discussed contingency plans for what to do if there's an afterlife. If one of us ends up in a good place and the other in a bad place, we're both determined to do whatever is necessary to meet in ideally a middle place or whichever place will take both of us otherwise. If we become spirits that walk the earth unseen by mortals, we'll meet in the desert where we had our wedding. If we are forced to reincarnate, we will attempt to bargain to reincarnate as the same species within a small enough geographical distance that we can likely meet again.
If my partner is still alive, then she would be very sad. Likewise my older siblings. God, I hope my parents aren't alive to see it - that would suck for them. My best bud would also be pretty torn up (we've lived within a few blocks of each other for most of the last three decades, and get together at least once a week). There's also an old ex who if they're still around, I can count on a great eulogy from them. Makes me wish I could stick around just to see that.
Unless it's a particularly horrible death, I don't think anyone would be dangerously sad. I'm insured to the hilt, so there should be enough to go around to cover expenses, including my partner's current level of comfort.
From my perspective, it's likely to be a big nothing (I would be *very* surprised otherwise). But I've never really put much stock in individual consciousness: sure I may be stuck to this one perspective because of how brains work, so it's the only consciousness I can truly know, but it's not the only one. The others (like other other people) will keep going after this one ends. The biggest changes are going to be in the social and legal dimensions of my former life.
If you're asking about your cognitive state, it's like a process or event that ends. Like if you roll a ball down a hill and the ball stops bc it's at the bottom of the hill. The ball's still there but the process of the ball rolling is over.
To some people it's helpful if they read up on things like palliative care and hospice care. To other people it makes things worse to think about it, but personally I found it comforting to know that there are options and procedures to handle that.
Darkness as your eyes close -> Probably some cool shit as your brain functions start shutting down -> literally nothing.
This one's not going to sovngarde.
Your brain stops firing and you're gone. You don't exist anymore. Your body starts to rot.
I don't know what - if anything- comes after. But I do like the Buddhist analogy of death being like a wave falling back into the sea. The wave is gone but the matter and energy that constituted it survives and are eventually repurposed for the formation of another wave. Or a bird, or a tree, or some other part of the natural world.
Hopefully the Egg is revealed.
Bruh, I don't want to live a life as hitler, or every nazi ever lived, or the jewish people that got genocided.
(Or have I already done that? 😖)
:3c
Nothing
I get reborn in the world that i helped create ...
Your corpse decomposes.
Nothing is nothing.
I don't need to read stupid questions like yours anymore, it's bliss.
im gonna die one day and if there's an afterlife, i'll deal with it then. if there isn't an afterlife, then i won't deal with it because i'll be dead.
Try taking a dmt trip. That often is described as feeling like dying, it's a strange other dimension but somehow feels familiar. Also the brain dumps a load of dmt at the moment of death. But that's just the dying stage, the actual dead stage, nothing because the brain has stopped working.
Likely just stop existing probably a good thing honestly. Though I do have this thinking sometimes that Earth is actually is hell since we have the freedom to do anything. God won't bother us here no matter how you prey. While heaven on the other hand means no freedom and complete order, god interacts there. We either came from there already or just randomly sorted and if we die here that is it.
You wake up outside the matrix.
The Ka leaves the body and goes to The Beach.
Ford Ka? Or another type of Ka?
If you believe your self, your awareness, your consciousness are manifestations of neurons firing in a brain, then as soon as those stop, you cease to be.
I believe that those neurons are a sort of radio signal, and that the self as I know it is a kind of wave transmitted from some time/place. When the body dies and the brain dies with it, I believe that connection is gone, and that signal is lost, but that the time/place from which the signal originated still exists. This doesn't indicate that I, the self, still am somehow alive or exist in some other way, the specific manifestation of myself as who I an is gone in this case, but I do take some solace in the fact that the signal that propagated the awareness of my own being still goes on.
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