what do you think happens when you die?

[0ddity]

just curious as to what other people thought

[earthmother]

Everyone cries and your body rots...

Your "spirit" (electromagnetic energy surrounding your body) goes out and joins the other random electromagnetic energy surrounding the planet... This explains ghosts (like radio waves bleeding thru on the wrong station) and reincarnation (parts of energy from your electromagnetic field become part of someone else's.)

[erzebet1961]

I think you pass into another life , maybe you might go to a waiting area first....but , its in the blink of an eye , I dont think you even realise you died it so fast.

[gate68]

When I die war will cease.

[sideshowbobstylee]

Everyone cries and your body rots...



That is always what I have assumed. After a bad trip, I began to associate the moment of death with that feeling you get the very moment before you fall asleep--only instead of going to sleep you completely f*cking disappear.

At that point the individual is gone save for the influence thay have exacted in their lifetime and lingering memories that are carried by those that are alive after. The body then decomposes and does what carboned-based things do--become absorbed and used by the earth.

[WanderingSoul]

This is a very interesting site on the topic: http://www.afterlife-knowledge.com/

[Tambet]

mystery happens

[Mr.Good Cat]

I have thought i figured it out a couple times when i was deep in a trip.. i hear my dad's voice saying something like "yea this is it jim" and then everything kind of blends together and whisks away... for that moment i know, and im sure, but i loose it shortly after and I'm stuck thinking about what i just felt....Like i am now..... but yea i feel it has a lot to do with energy and us being recreated in some other form at a later date, maybe all together, maybe after another big bang or something. But i really don't think we will know it, I have a prity good feeling it's just lights out.

[wobblies]

You cease to exist, hopefully peacefully, and join the rocks and oceans and stars in the nonliving order of the universe.

[Smif]

That is a question that we will never know. I assume we decompose into the soil and help new life grow. Best is to not think about it and just live life to the fullest.

[JNature]

Near-death experiences were always fascinating. A repeating factor in alot of the cases was always a light.....a light that feels like a thousand warm blankets hugging you, accepting you. I wonder if this could be the endless energy that composes us all or maybe God finally bringing us towards paradise. I wonder if the spirit has a consciousness like my body.

[Spiritchalist]

I think we go to a waiting room before the next life. A funeral maybe a sort of lesson for us, to learn how we 'scored' in this life, and to reflect upon it.

[claymation]

I like to think that the spirit passes to another place to continue life on another plane.

[Zeberwood]

Near-death experiences were always fascinating. A repeating factor in alot of the cases was always a light.....a light that feels like a thousand warm blankets hugging you, accepting you. I wonder if this could be the endless energy that composes us all or maybe God finally bringing us towards paradise. I wonder if the spirit has a consciousness like my body.

Yes, but in my experience, near-death realizations are part of something that we've already experienced, rather than an actual happening, and a literal lift to heaven. Case in point: someone is more likely to see Jesus when they are about to die if they go to church, rather than an Atheist, who will see things more literally. The light is most likely a hallucination brought on by preconceived notions about the afterlife. I'm not saying it can't happen, but almost always it's a hallucination. I would rather travel the world on a spiritual journey after I died then spend my life in paradise, but I think that all the feelings of ether and peacefulness before death is a sign of how people see their lives ending, rather than actual occurrences.

[jrrod]

i died one time. when i woke up i realized i was living in an idol obsessed world. where women and men thought they were more then living creatures. where men and women put oils and skins all over their bodies to hide their true self. nobody knows what day it is or where their children are at. i woke up and saw my face in a mirror. i hadn't changed from when i was a young kid. all of my closest friends whom i grew up with were taller and stronger, but clearly brainwashed by the idols on the black box in the living room. i dont know if i want to die again now or later, as long as i can live in peace. im looking for those who dont worship false idols. the faces on tv- you dont know anything about anybody on tv or the radio. seek the truth, it will set you free. earth is my afterlife, my next one will be 6feet under, then into the lifeblood of the earth.

[josh55116]

jupiter, mars or mercury

[notjoetheplumber]

the energy that held me together goes back to the comos

[TheSystemOrange]

You go to the other side, which is the same as here only much less dense.

[shonangreg]

I *imagine* if you can find a balance in your consciousness -- a place and a posture in your mind where you experience a continuity of consciousness, where nothing changes even though the world blazes on by, where you experience an extended moment of no change, then when you die, there will be no change for that part of you. Everything else will be wiped away -- like a giant comb stroking through your being pulling away all attachments and entanglements, . . .

If you die before having ever discovered your own piece of eternity, then after your death you will continue searching for it. Sanzu-no-kawa, the River Styx, or other rivers of death are all symbolic of the continued search minus our current body. Buddhism (and Hinduism?) imagine you to return here again in another body, getting a partial reboot, and then trying afresh to find enough eternity to stay.

The overall jist is that the part of you that is the most in tune with the eternal moment is the only one that persists. The more you can find that part of yourself now, the more you can *be* that eternal moment, the more you will continue after death, *and* the more you will already be there, transcending time *now*.

But this is just one way I imagine it. It is generally the most comfortable perspective I can maintain ("belief" for me) without being distracted for one reason or another. "Beliefs" are tricky and actually largely unnecessary, I think. Though no one seems to agree with me on this point.

Greg
(my 2nd post here)

[BluesMan32]

when you die your body decays and your soul goes to a waiting place according to where you belong if you're a good boy you go to paradise bad ones go to hell ... so tell me what life is when your ass belongs to earth and your soul belongs to Jesus!

[Asmodean]

When we pass away we wake up. This world disappears, what's happening to our body is not important at all.

[shiva_master]

MY thought was that when you die. The energy released when you die(which does have mass) has to go elsewhere. Mabey it goes into a quantum physics sort of leaving our reality and supporting life in another.

OR. when we die, our life energy goes into another organism hint:reincarnation

[etherea]

I haven't given it a lot of thought. I'm leaning towards the reincarnation idea. Times running out, maybe I should start thinking about it a bit more seriously - fuck it -I'm a good person so I'll go somewhere nice!

[salmeenia]

a much asked yet little unanswered question.... in my opinion i feel the stronger of our spirits move out into another, newer body (ie. a baby's) after we cease... quite possibly to continue flourishing and growing....... and i only hope my soul has the chance to keep living, growing and emitting the peace and happiness for as long as it can... my sisters and parents think im a bit wonky but i think im pretty brilliant... and just reading other peoples answers was quite interesting too... thanks for asking!!!

[SmilingMyra]

I'm going to heaven.

[jammin1000]

This is a very complex subject. Here are the answers from my sources. If you want some definitions of the estoric language, I would be glad to help.

1. Spiritual (soul) death. If and when mortal man has finally rejected survival, when he has been pronounced spiritually insolvent, morontially bankrupt, in the conjoint opinion of the Adjuster and the surviving seraphim, when such co-ordinate advice has been recorded on Uversa, and after the Censors and their reflective associates have verified these findings, thereupon do the rulers of Orvonton order the immediate release of the indwelling Monitor. But this release of the Adjuster in no way affects the duties of the personal or group seraphim concerned with that Adjuster-abandoned individual. This kind of death is final in its significance irrespective of the temporary continuation of the living energies of the physical and mind mechanisms. From the cosmic standpoint the mortal is already dead; the continuing life merely indicates the persistence of the material momentum of cosmic energies.

2. Intellectual (mind) death. When the vital circuits of higher adjutant ministry are disrupted through the aberrations of intellect or because of the partial destruction of the mechanism of the brain, and if these conditions pass a certain critical point of irreparability, the indwelling Adjuster is immediately released to depart for Divinington. On the universe records a mortal personality is considered to have met with death whenever the essential mind circuits of human will-action have been destroyed. And again, this is death, irrespective of the continuing function of the living mechanism of the physical body. The body minus the volitional mind is no longer human, but according to the prior choosing of the human will, the soul of such an individual may survive.

3. Physical (body and mind) death. When death overtakes a human being, the Adjuster remains in the citadel of the mind until it ceases to function as an intelligent mechanism, about the time that the measurable brain energies cease their rhythmic vital pulsations. Following this dissolution the Adjuster takes leave of the vanishing mind, just as unceremoniously as entry was made years before, and proceeds to Divinington by way of Uversa.

After death the material body returns to the elemental world from which it was derived, but two nonmaterial factors of surviving personality persist: The pre-existent Thought Adjuster, with the memory transcription of the mortal career, proceeds to Divinington; and there also remains, in the custody of the destiny guardian, the immortal morontia soul of the deceased human. These phases and forms of soul, these once kinetic but now static formulas of identity, are essential to repersonalization on the morontia worlds; and it is the reunion of the Adjuster and the soul that reassembles the surviving personality, that reconsciousizes you at the time of the morontia awakening.

For those who do not have personal seraphic guardians, the group custodians faithfully and efficiently perform the same service of identity safekeeping and personality resurrection. The seraphim are indispensable to the reassembly of personality.

Upon death the Thought Adjuster temporarily loses personality, but not identity; the human subject temporarily loses identity, but not personality; on the mansion worlds both reunite in eternal manifestation. Never does a departed Thought Adjuster return to earth as the being of former indwelling; never is personality manifested without the human will; and never does a dis-Adjustered human being after death manifest active identity or in any manner establish communication with the living beings of earth. Such dis-Adjustered souls are wholly and absolutely unconscious during the long or short sleep of death. There can be no exhibition of any sort of personality or ability to engage in communications with other personalities until after completion of survival. Those who go to the mansion worlds are not permitted to send messages back to their loved ones. It is the policy throughout the universes to forbid such communication during the period of a current dispensation.

[TheMagneticHeadache]

Probably some sort of spiritual realm. A place to re-connect with those you love before living the whole experience (life) again. Sounds cool to me, and if the soul really has 'choice' over where it goes when it dies, this is exactly what I'd want.

[BBAD]

to the same place the light from a lightbulb goes when you turn off the power feed

[themnax]

it may not be up to us to know, but i sure hope it's either the universe most of my dreams take place in, or someplace a lot like it.

it's not everything perfect and easy there, but it is a place where you don't have to worry about things like food and shelter, or even transportation.

and it seems to me, at least in mine, it's still possible to be creative, or at least feel like you're doing so anyway. and endlessly strange, odd and different places to explore.

and you can certainly still enjoy tastes and flavours and colors and textures and shapes.

well, in my dream places anyway. i guess its up to something more powerful then myself, though how we each experience it, i think has to do with how, what, we evolve ourselves into, while we're here.

i think that's maybe part of what various beliefs have tried to say about it too.
and that it isn't one place forever or anything like that, but rather that beyond it is another and beyond that another and so on.

[DR Corncob]

Our eternal spark rejoins the collective until it "becomes" again. Our time here on Earth is just the 30 minute recess of a greater day in school.

Our bodies energy is food for the tiger that eats us alive, or it leaks out into the Earth to feed the worms by decomposition or it feeds the fire of the crematory. - Dale

[kzf68xC8]

I think you get buried and eventually forgotten.

[RainbowChantel]

I think living your life to the fullest will tell you when you die what will happen! That truly is the question tha cannot be answered=(

[mdoss2202]

the DMT stored in your pineal gland is released thus sending you to "heaven"

[marijuanafriend]

you die