Where Do You Think You Go When You Die?

[MarcusD357]

well i just think that once your dead, your dead. there is no life after dead. anyone who believes that there is life after death is really just trying to kid themselves that it doesnt matter that they have wasted their sad little lives as they can continue to live on in there make believe heaven or Valhalla. but the truth is plain and simple. you only live ONCE. then you are DEAD. that is what dead means. you cease to exist. you cannot continue to live if you do not exist. get over it.

 

[Skeleon]

I don't think one moves on, I think one ends.
Without a brain there's no consciousness.
And I don't believe in souls as what is ascribed to them is actually part of consciousness.
It'd probably be like going to sleep/having an alcohol-induced black-out without ever waking up to reflect on it.

 

[massau]

i think i will go to a better place but not like heaven and i think i will go to another form and maybe even come back to this universe after some 100 years
it's more like a test here

This.

thx to agree maybe our next live will be aliens

I'm sorry, but what proof or evidence do you have of this at ALL?

i think this is going to happen but science cant prove anything maybe there will be nothing i don't believe there is a god. and maybe your live is written before so you only have options.
i just dont know and how will we find evidence catch someone's soul ? But w8 it cant because we didn't prove that so it will be impossible we will have to see more to philosophy

 

[sumanoskae]

Hypothetically speaking it is possible that your molecules will separate and merge with other molecules to create something knew Just a theory though not very fleshed out. I guess it depends on what it is that gives us our ability to think, the brain is an unexplained and complicated mystery

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

Where do we go?

We go into the ground.

I would like to believe in re-incarnation but I think that's just a bit less far-fetched than the Heaven or Hell idea.

\o/

How is it less far-fetched, lol?

> Our souls go to Heaven for being good, hell for being bad.
> Our souls go into an animal, which dies, then we go somewhere else, in a cycle.

Seems the same, or perhaps more so to me.

I just think the idea of your being transferring into an animal after you die is slightly more plausible than there being a big city somewhere in the sky that you go to if you were good in your mortal life.

 

[Skeleon]

Hypothetically speaking it is possible that your molecules will separate and merge with other molecules to create something knew Just a theory though not very fleshed out. I guess it depends on what it is that gives us our ability to think, the brain is an unexplained and complicated mystery

Well, yeah, that's true, you become part of the soil and then of bacteria, plants, animals...
Kind of beautiful, if you ask me.
But I doubt there'd be any consciousness remaining. Since you'd need a brain for that.
But still, a nice thing to know you'll still be a part of the world, even if you won't be able to experience it.

 

[Gooflord_K3nny]

I'd actually like to state that I know with absolute certainty that I know where I will go once I finally stop living.
I don't like that place one bit.

 

[Deacon Cole]

What do all you educated members of the Escapist think happens when one "moves on"?

I don't know.

Many have ideas of what happens after death, but we simply do not know what happens. There is no evidence to support any afterlife claims. So the prospect of dying is scary, but it is also exciting because we don't know what's going to happen.

 

[sirdanrhodes]

You meet death, then I plan to knee him in the crotch and run away very fast.

Hi Rimmer.

I don't know, nobody does, so I am not going to even guess.

 

[SmilingKitsune]

I'd actually like to state that I know with absolute certainty that I know where I will go once I finally stop living.
I don't like that place one bit.

Welcome to the escapist! ~gives you a balloon and throws confetti~
I'm sure it's not that bad, or maybe it is.
As for me, I have no idea, well I have several ideas but I don't know what I believe with any certainty.

 

[the Tadman]

I think when we die, we instantly get reborn such as a newborn baby without feeling anything. It takes like a split second.

 

[Kinguendo]

I think you get buried or burnt... suck to still be alive then huh?

 

[Kinguendo]

I think when we die, we instantly get reborn such as a newborn baby without feeling anything. It takes like a split second.

Well that or it becomes... PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!

 

[TheHorizon]

You become a slave to the Great Cthulhu for eternity.

 

[traceur_]

We stay here and rot.

 

[Doug]

i think i will go to a better place but not like heaven and i think i will go to another form and maybe even come back to this universe after some 100 years
it's more like a test here

Pretty much this. I have a vague idea of a non-physical state of consciousness, in which all sentients are somehow linked. People who were bad in their lives have to be truly and utterly sorry for their acts before they are permitted to rejoin humanity, I think.

Of course, this could all be wishful thinking, but I think the Universe is so vast that to assume we know everything is unimaginably argorant. Add to that, the Universe might be part of a Multiverse, compounding our ignorance.

 

[yeah_so_no]

No idea, but I'm leaning towards reincarnation. But I don't really think about it too much; I prefer to enjoy every day that I'm alive as much as I can, because I'm only here for a tiny little space of time--today I'm alive, tomorrow I might not be, so I want to enjoy every day as much as I can.

Every day coming home, I pass the city police station, and there's a sign outside of it saying how many car accidents there were in the city and prefecture that day, how many injuries, and how many deaths. I literally see it every day, and any day I see a death, I say a little prayer--not for the dead person, but for their family, the people that loved that person, that they won't hurt so much. Once you're dead, you've moved on somehow and know the answer to what happens one way or the other, but it's the people left behind who are grieving.

That sign's a little reminder that in the midst of life, we are in death, today, someone has died, and their family is grieving--and tomorrow that someone might be me and the people grieving mine. You never know. And since my time is short and one day I can never know in advance I'll be gone, well, better to enjoy each day like it might be my last.

Why worry about what will happen after I die, when it's a given that one day I'll find out for sure?