What happens after death?

[lycanthrope]

What happen's after death? For a while I have been thinking about this afterlife thing. I don't believe in a god or anything like that, and believe when you die you are gone. I want to see what other people thing of what might lie after death.Thanks

[Vendetta]

Lots of things happen after you die. It's just that they don't involve YOU anymore.

[demonic_monkey]

Who knows? I guess you'll just have to wait and find out...

[Bill the Butcher]

If you mean what happens to you after you die, well, I imagine that if your corpse is left undisturbed it's going to go into rigor mortis, and then begin proceeding through the stages of decomposition until you're a skeleton.

I hope that is a satisfactory answer?

[MetaKittie]

A whole lot of nothin'.

That's what I tell all the suicidal people, anyway. If you're religious, an infinite acid trip to a happy land in the clouds seems to be the general consensus.

[Tempest]

Who am I to know what happens? It's something that no one will ever know, unless I guess we make some gigantic leap in technology and somehow find a way to cross over and live to tell about it. But right now, I don't think anyone knows for sure. That scares me, but it forces me to live this life as though it's the only one I get. I think that's the best we can ever do.

[J.L.R.]

Who knows? I guess you'll just have to wait and find out...

Honestly, Monkey... they don't have to wait... they could find out today even... right this moment infact... however, THAT is not advisable. :D

[demonic_monkey]

Honestly, Monkey... they don't have to wait... they could find out today even... right this moment infact... however, THAT is not advisable. :D

Well, they would still have to wait a little while, like until the train comes into sight so they can dive onto the tracks in front of it...or however else they want to die.

There's still a few moments of waiting time, even if they just want to shoot themselves.

Thus, the wait and find out comment. :D

[Xavious]

When you die your soul goes to a garage in Buffalo.

Okay, with that out of my system my serious answer. I think any number of things are possible. Reincarnation? Heaven or Hell? Transcendence to a higher level of existence? Waking up from a dream? Being 'unplugged' from a vast bio-mechanical network of minds? Nothing? I say they all have roughly equal chances of occurring. In fact it is my personal opinion that nothing happening after death, for the person who dies that is, is the least probable scenario.

[demonic_monkey]

I just wish I could have my soul uploaded onto the internet when I die. That would be sweeeet! :rockon:

[Vaultdweller]

It would seem to be one of five possibilities:

1.) You experience eternal nothingness; existence ceases.

2.) Your immaterial self is reincorporated in some other form, or in some other person.

3.) You are relocated to an endless paradise.

4.) You are relocated to an endless abyss.

5.) Your spirit wanders the earth for all time; or at least, until the universe is destroyed in heat-death and collapses upon itself.

[buzzsaw133]

It seems that nearly every religion has it's own idea of what happens to the soul after death. I think I have found a solution...

When you die, your body goes through the process of decomposition as usual. But what happens to the soul depends on your beliefs. Take Christianity for example: Most Christians believe that after death, you go to either heaven or hell. Hell is obviously a place of torment, which I believe to be a manifestation of every fear you've ever had formed to reflect your sins, or what you've done wrong in your life. Heaven is supposed to be your hearts desires come to a reality of sorts. Basically, I am saying that there are two paths when you die, the path of the good and the path of the evil. These things do not depend on what religion you worship or what god or gods you pray too, but how you lived your life. Those who lived a good life will be allowed onto the path of good to whatever afterlife the believed in when they were alive. The bad will be stricken to wander the world of the living, experiencing hunger, thirst and the torment of loneliness until the end of time.

I'm not trying to convince people of anything, just answering the question.

[MorganaFang]

If you're a smart but bad person you get subjected to a hell self proclaimed intellects posting on a board with a elementary spelling and grammar with a juvenile (or shock value driven) philosophy of life, politics and spirituality.

[buzzsaw133]

If that was directed at me: Sorry, I was really tired, I was bound to make a few mistakes...as for juvenile philosophy, well, that for each user to decide for themselves...other than that...touche

[Fenris_brood]

*cracks fingers*

It seems that nearly every religion has it's own idea of what happens to the soul after death. I think I have found a solution...

There's no solution for this question, for two reasons, firstly, there are alot of views that do not agree in one solution, some say afterlife, some say another life, some say just no life at all and that's me there, scienza. Secondly, you can't have any premisses to say you have found a solution to this problem unless you are a sensient zombie and have solid proof of anything that happens after death, since this is all pretty improbable, and I know nobody would like to stink that bad, you can only come up with ideas, theories or conjecture, none of them actual solutions to any mathematical problem.

When you die, your body goes through the process of decomposition as usual. Captain obvious is obvious.

But what happens to the soul depends on your beliefs. Take Christianity for example: Most Christians believe that after death, you go to either heaven or hell. Hell is obviously a place of torment, which I believe to be a manifestation of every fear you've ever had formed to reflect your sins, or what you've done wrong in your life. Heaven is supposed to be your hearts desires come to a reality of sorts.

It depends on your beliefs indeed, and it vastly has the idea of opposition between good and evil, some few don't and there is no consistent paramater for this good or evil throughout religions. Christian hell although is written to be ironic and Christian heaven is written to be a tortuous eternity of serving your "god". You don't take into view any other religions at all in this notion, while you immediatly say that every religion follows this pattern. The greeks all ended up in one place, there only was on heaven for the people that served the Aesir and Vanir, and that was JUST for the people that died in battle, disregarding any good or evil they did in their lives. Most native american stories tell that upon death you would just transmigrate to a bountiful land filled with plenty, also regardless of your "life path". In stuff like buddhism, for most that I know, good deeds were used as bargain chips for better or worst lifes after death, none of them actually filled with a scary hell of fear and torture, but in regards towards the abilities that the next life would have. As you see, alot don't have any set path of ultimate goodness, which brings me to my next point.

Basically, I am saying that there are two paths when you die, the path of the good and the path of the evil. These things do not depend on what religion you worship or what god or gods you pray too, but how you lived your life. Those who lived a good life will be allowed onto the path of good to whatever afterlife the believed in when they were alive. The bad will be stricken to wander the world of the living, experiencing hunger, thirst and the torment of loneliness until the end of time.

Firstly, as I said, these rules are reflected on the god you worship. Secondly, humans are egocentric and this is explained here. We are unable to do any ultimate good or ultimate evil, it's egocentric to think that our presence in this world is that valuable. We can follow our codes and do what we think is right, and that's all good, but in the end of the day our very existance interfeers with anothers, and most often in a negative way. For the more, any act of individual kindness is insignificant, and most often misdirected as there's no critical thinking towards what is the ultimate grater good, it is just impossible to do so, a global awareness would have to be present for you to know exactly what's the ultimate right cause where the money would have no negative impact. My point is, there's no ultimate good or ultimate evil, life's grey, people do good things in their mind, for their ideals, and that's where true improvment comes from.

I'm not trying to convince people of anything, just answering the question.

Just choose your words better next time, a solution is hardly the same as a point of view, it is technically you saying this is the ultimate right way to see this question.

[buzzsaw133]

All I was saying was what I believe, which seems to me to be a logical answer, but yes, I probably should have chose my words better.

[BTR]

Some sentient being gets pissed and throws their controller.

[Kishi-Dawi]

I'm seriously beginning to think we are stuck in an endless loop, that we repeat our lives over and over.

[LV426]

The worms go in, the worms go out, the worms play pinocle on your snout!

[Vendetta]

They eat your eyes, they eat your nose, they eat the jelly between your toes.

[JynxDarkwulf]

i guess the only way to really find out is to live your life to the fullest and die

[Kodanshi]

Life after death does not exist! How do we know this? One simple explanation: memory. Neuroscience has mapped to a certain degree how our brains store memories. Structures of neurons themselves store long–term memories (a bit like a hard drive). When something damages these structures it damages the memories too. You can see this clearly with conditions like amnesia.

When death occurs it stops and therefore destroys the very same structures. In other words, death destroys all memories. Memories form a vital function, because without them we cannot recognise friends or family, or make decisions based on past experience. (Of course this represents a brief explanation of an extremely complex process which you can research into further.)

We can expand this idea further, to the rest of the brain and body. For example, since death destroys the brain it also puts an end to decision–making processes, so we cannot do things like reason or think. Structures regulating reflexes, bodily control, all the senses, etc also stop. Essentially nothing, no part of us, survives death. If there is a spirit remains (which I do not believe), it remains blind, deaf, unable to reason, unable to remember, unable to think, feel or do anything. In other words, completely incapable of doing, feeling, or existing in a manner which resembles life.

[Fenris_brood]

I do still think that we are still being completely ignorant of the biological cycle that says that we become hummus to feed other life forms, it's a circle, is there life after death? Yes, just not yours.

[GhostBat]

I do still think that we are still being completely ignorant of the biological cycle that says that we become hummus to feed other life forms, it's a circle, is there life after death? Yes, just not yours.

The Lion King comes to mind. :p

[Fenris_brood]

The Lion King comes to mind. :p

I still have to watch the new one they released in 3D, I don't care if it's horrible or what the target age group is, Mufasa died, goddammit...

[Vendetta]

Sorry to sidetrack for a second...

I still have to watch the new one they released in 3D, I don't care if it's horrible or what the target age group is, Mufasa died, goddammit...
New one? It's the same movie, just converted to 3D in post (worst method of 3D - not that any are really that good.)

[Fenris_brood]

New one? It's the same movie, just converted to 3D in post (worst method of 3D - not that any are really that good.)

To be completely honest, I actually did not know what word to emply for it, re-release? Rehash? Stealing? Anyways, I got to give it a watch, although this is movie section talk, was the 3D in it that horrible?

[Vendetta]

To be completely honest, I actually did not know what word to emply for it, re-release? Rehash? Stealing? Anyways, I got to give it a watch, although this is movie section talk, was the 3D in it that horrible?
I don't know, as I refuse to see it in 3D. The issue is that it isn't a totally digital film, and it wasn't originally made in 3D, so they have to go back and do it digitally. Which is usually the worst type of 3D films. Maybe it matters less for a 2D cartoon (which in facts begs the question of how/why do you make an intrinsically 2D medium 3D.)


On topic: Nothing! I think if you take wishful thinking and fear of death out of the equation, that HAS to be the rational answer.