Where Do You Think You Go When You Die?

[rockingnic]

I kinda believe in karma and reincarnation. So If I'm good for the most part, I'll become Master Chief, if I'm bad I'll be Radec and if neutral... hmmm I'd guess I'd become Dante

 

[Wide White]

Death, we fear, because it is unknown, but death also makes us think, Should we live a pios life? Should we be altruistic? We have been told all of our lives that we should, so some great plainof eterna happiness hits us, or we will wake up as another being. But, in my opinion, I say that due to no sensory input, and no brain to provide conciousness, ourselves as we know it, through our eyes, go into complete nothingness, with nothing to see, so there would be no colour, black is a colour, so you wouldn't see black either, you would see no colour. No sound, sso it wouldn't sound like an echoey cave, no smell, no perception, at all.

You wouldn't even know you were dead, your brain wouldn't function, you'd have no memory, no anything. The closest thing I have to compare is a dreamless sleep, that fits most of the criteria, and in the end, jhust sleeping without dreams forever isn't that bad, is it??

Basicly, What I want to say is summarized here:

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.

But doesn't the idea of SOMETHING happening sound better?

I think the idea of something happening after death makes it too easy to throw away life and the life of others, especially if you are in a position of power like say... the President of America! It would remove fanatics and that can only be a good thing.

I don't think that believing in a better place would sway everyone to become blood thirsty killers

 

[sonidraw]

When I die, I believe that, if everything goes right, I will lose my current body (basically, it'll decompose in a coffin somewhere underground) and I will be given a new body (my resurrection body). Then, my soul and its new body will be brought into the presence of God and other resurrected folks from both the past and future. And then we talk about stuff.

 

[Willwillwritehiswill]

When we die, we all burn in the heat of a thousand suns!

Then have our ashes scattered at sea or something.

 

[hippykiller]

if you have followed your religion's code of rules you might go to heaven but likely chances are your going to hell. because the way our LIBERAL world is going right now. were all going to burn.

 

[Kellerb]

battle to the death with death while dead. ends pretty fast.

 

[Dyloss]

I think everything will cease to exist, not because the world involve around me, but merely because I am not here to observe it.
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

Well not really

 

[balimuzz]

I've always had the belief that there is some sort of "God," but that they have no actual influence over our lives. This God just set the rules of the universe (gravity, laws of energy, etc.) and set off the Big Bang. Then, sat back and watched the show. I think that God had no idea what would happen with any of this, but that he/she/it watches the whole universe. When we die, we just go up and watch with God. No heaven or hell, just watching.

 

[Hellion25]

A hole in the ground I guess. Not much else to say from an atheist point of view.

 

[TheMonkeySlayer]

The spawn room.

 

[Svenparty]

It's worse than being reincarnated as a small fly because at least then you'd have some form of life.

You just die and it's exactly like before you were born...unfeeling...unthinking DEAD

It's quite frightening really it's like being scared of nothing literally

 

[Kinguendo]

Death, we fear, because it is unknown, but death also makes us think, Should we live a pios life? Should we be altruistic? We have been told all of our lives that we should, so some great plainof eterna happiness hits us, or we will wake up as another being. But, in my opinion, I say that due to no sensory input, and no brain to provide conciousness, ourselves as we know it, through our eyes, go into complete nothingness, with nothing to see, so there would be no colour, black is a colour, so you wouldn't see black either, you would see no colour. No sound, sso it wouldn't sound like an echoey cave, no smell, no perception, at all.

You wouldn't even know you were dead, your brain wouldn't function, you'd have no memory, no anything. The closest thing I have to compare is a dreamless sleep, that fits most of the criteria, and in the end, jhust sleeping without dreams forever isn't that bad, is it??

Basicly, What I want to say is summarized here:

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.

But doesn't the idea of SOMETHING happening sound better?

I think the idea of something happening after death makes it too easy to throw away life and the life of others, especially if you are in a position of power like say... the President of America! It would remove fanatics and that can only be a good thing.

I don't think that believing in a better place would sway everyone to become blood thirsty killers

You are right, EVERYONE wouldnt become blood thirsty killers because most people have things called morals that are not based on their faith. But of course I never said that everyone would, did I. Just look at the evidence, religious extremists do things like suicide bombing and George W. Bush did things like throw wave after wave of American teenagers into the firing line in Iraq (AKA that illegal war that outaged everyone).

 

[CrystalShadow]

Nowhere. A stop to bloodflow to the brain means a cease to consciousness. Same as sleeping without dreams, or being knocked out. Nothing. Forever. Depressing, I know. But true. As far as I believe anyway.

Might I remind you that people have been dead for extended periods of time before being resuscitated. What did they report? Nothing. Proof.

heh. debatable proof, since some of these people in fact reported very strange things indeed...

But... That's another story.

 

[Metalchair]

six feet under the ground in a wooden box... duh

 

[ElephantGuts]

Nowhere. A stop to bloodflow to the brain means a cease to consciousness. Same as sleeping without dreams, or being knocked out. Nothing. Forever. Depressing, I know. But true. As far as I believe anyway.

Might I remind you that people have been dead for extended periods of time before being resuscitated. What did they report? Nothing. Proof.

heh. debatable proof, since some of these people in fact reported very strange things indeed...

But... That's another story.

Yeah, I don't think it's solid proof either. Considering all the freaky things that could be happening in the brain upon death, it's hard to know just what it all means, if anything.

 

[Wide White]

Death, we fear, because it is unknown, but death also makes us think, Should we live a pios life? Should we be altruistic? We have been told all of our lives that we should, so some great plainof eterna happiness hits us, or we will wake up as another being. But, in my opinion, I say that due to no sensory input, and no brain to provide conciousness, ourselves as we know it, through our eyes, go into complete nothingness, with nothing to see, so there would be no colour, black is a colour, so you wouldn't see black either, you would see no colour. No sound, sso it wouldn't sound like an echoey cave, no smell, no perception, at all.

You wouldn't even know you were dead, your brain wouldn't function, you'd have no memory, no anything. The closest thing I have to compare is a dreamless sleep, that fits most of the criteria, and in the end, jhust sleeping without dreams forever isn't that bad, is it??

Basicly, What I want to say is summarized here:

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.

But doesn't the idea of SOMETHING happening sound better?

I think the idea of something happening after death makes it too easy to throw away life and the life of others, especially if you are in a position of power like say... the President of America! It would remove fanatics and that can only be a good thing.

I don't think that believing in a better place would sway everyone to become blood thirsty killers

You are right, EVERYONE wouldnt become blood thirsty killers because most people have things called morals that are not based on their faith. But of course I never said that everyone would, did I. Just look at the evidence, religious extremists do things like suicide bombing and George W. Bush did things like throw wave after wave of American teenagers into the firing line in Iraq (AKA that illegal war that outaged everyone).

I never said people morals were based on faith, and maybe if you don't mean everyone you should say that next time.

 

[TopHatTim]

Not to push my current state of depression onto anyone else.
But i've been having misconceptions about death recently.
What do all you educated members of the Escapist think happens when one "moves on"?
Please don't use this thread as some kind of vessel to push religious views onto others.
Just except everyone else's opinions.

i know where im going when i die....in a coffin *drum roll*

ok seriously though...
im pretty sure that when you die (IMO) a chemical release happens in your brain and your perception of real world time slows down to the point its practically stopped...then you go where you tell your mind to...so everything that happens in your own little world you controll because its your little world not a premade one

 

[Kinguendo]

Death, we fear, because it is unknown, but death also makes us think, Should we live a pios life? Should we be altruistic? We have been told all of our lives that we should, so some great plainof eterna happiness hits us, or we will wake up as another being. But, in my opinion, I say that due to no sensory input, and no brain to provide conciousness, ourselves as we know it, through our eyes, go into complete nothingness, with nothing to see, so there would be no colour, black is a colour, so you wouldn't see black either, you would see no colour. No sound, sso it wouldn't sound like an echoey cave, no smell, no perception, at all.

You wouldn't even know you were dead, your brain wouldn't function, you'd have no memory, no anything. The closest thing I have to compare is a dreamless sleep, that fits most of the criteria, and in the end, jhust sleeping without dreams forever isn't that bad, is it??

Basicly, What I want to say is summarized here:

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.

But doesn't the idea of SOMETHING happening sound better?

I think the idea of something happening after death makes it too easy to throw away life and the life of others, especially if you are in a position of power like say... the President of America! It would remove fanatics and that can only be a good thing.

I don't think that believing in a better place would sway everyone to become blood thirsty killers

You are right, EVERYONE wouldnt become blood thirsty killers because most people have things called morals that are not based on their faith. But of course I never said that everyone would, did I. Just look at the evidence, religious extremists do things like suicide bombing and George W. Bush did things like throw wave after wave of American teenagers into the firing line in Iraq (AKA that illegal war that outaged everyone).

I never said people morals were based on faith, and maybe if you don't mean everyone you should say that next time.

And I never said that you said that they were, I said that the people who wouldnt become blood thirsty killers are the ones who have morals that arent based on faith. Can you look at the sentence you are refering to and see where "Oh and I am not refering to everyone here" would have come into my mind! And why should I say everyone next time? Why cant I be vague like most belief systems?

 

[PersianLlama]

I die, the cells of my body die. Ecology goes to work, my body decomposes and becomes part of the water/nitrogen/phosphorus (and probably several other) cycles.