What happens to you after you die?

Any Ideas?

 

When brain activity ceases, consciousness, as you are familiar, ceases.

So... nothing really.

It would be nice to believe otherwise, but it would also be illogical.

 

Ah, rigormortis. Then the fun begins: decomposition. You turn into a pile of scummy fluids and stinking oozing flesh. You return to the earth and the cycles of life, water, carbon, nitrogen, etc...

Unless you get cremated, then you go up in smoke. It's faster and bypasses the disgustingness of decay in happy yellow flames

 

So after you die it all goes black and nothing else happens. That sux. Well fuck school and a job if after I die it all doesn't matter.

 

Life goes on without you because you are totally insignificant.

 

There may be (I believe this) that there is some un comprehendable place where all of the dead are kept in agony aka hell. But my belief is all but a chosen few go there.

 

I couldn't disagree more, it is my belief that as opposed to us being beings that have consciousness we are consciousness and that consciousness exhists at many different levels (for example a dream, meditation, a religious experience, or the experience of a psychedelic drug) we are currently just trapped in one level of it right now and death releases you from this level in which we identify ourselves as seperate beings that exist in time to a much higher level....
..thats just my take on what I've read from the tibetan book of the dead, the bhagavad gita, and many books by ram dass....

 

as far as im concerned death doesn't exist for me, just other people. i'll only know that something's wrong when im dying, i won't know it when im dead.
maybe my body will decompose or maybe i'll wake up into another dream.

 

Well whatever happens it will probably be better than life but I will fight till I drop to stay alive as long as I can.

 

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I responded in a prior thread. Moving_Cloud has an interesting sharing you may find of value.

 

It would be great if we all went up to "that spirit in the sky" to live together in peace and harmony, and I'm really hoping for that. But thats not really logical, i guess some more logical explanations are:
Just kind of passing on and all your energy just becoming one with the trees, and the grass and the air... sounds peaceful... unless u die in a dark pit or soemthing...
Then theres reincarnation, which i would assume is about the same as the other one but becoming another person instead of the trees and all.
hmmm, there are so many possibilities....

 

Here is a lil story from my life, that happened about ten years ago....

Doesnt prove anything, just one reason I believe death is not the end.

I used to work with a fellow who's wife died of lung cancer, though she was a nurse who never smoked. It was less than a year from diagnosis till she was gone. Around a month before she passed on she told him that she was going to send him some kind of a sign. He is a very honest, family-oriented, devout Catholic. Then, from her hospital bed a week before she passed on, she told him she knew what the sign would be....lightning.
I have only been to one funeral in my life, hers, and it was at 1PM at St. Anne's Church. As we arrived it was pouring out, really hard, the sky was low overcast thick clouds, and it was dark like twilight. We sat down, and got settled in, and then boom, thunder, and the lights in the church went out for a couple of minutes. Kelvin told me that when the thunder struck, he looked at his watch and it was 1 o'clock on the dot.
After the funeral, we came outside to find that there was not a cloud in the sky, I swear. Everything was soaking wet, and dripping, and the sun was shining in a clear blue sky.

 

I liked the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and have had some of the information in it related to me by someone who does not read, and got her info. from 'The one true God.', to use her words. She described a fearsome and distraught Goddess that could have come straight out of that book.

 

I belived in past lives, and am convinced by mediums. So this is my theory of the after life....

Our body is just discarded on earth (like a suit we no longer need) then our soul* ends up in another realm; heaven, summer land, whatever. It can stay on there or enter another new body for a rebirth.

I've yet to establish whether rebirth is optional or the spirit just thinks 'oh boy you have some serious learning to do' and of you sod with no choice. Might even be eithier or both.
Our lives are learning experiences so we are born into a life that gives us the best chance of figuring out what we need to know (ie being a beggar would teach humility)

Never believed in hell, just Christian mind control IMO. So it's eithier the good [after] life or back into a new body/life to make amends and learn some more.

Don't see why all that shouldn't apply to animals as well.

*No idea what exactly that comprises of.

 

What objective truth points to afterlife?

What subjective truth points to afterlife, that is logical?


You cannot say it defies logic just because it feels better if you live on after death. You cannot simply deem something unexplainable because it tends to correlate irrationality.

 

that could be our souls weight?


I used to work with a fellow who's wife died of lung cancer, though she was a nurse who never smoked. It was less than a year from diagnosis till she was gone. Around a month before she passed on she told him that she was going to send him some kind of a sign. He is a very honest, family-oriented, devout Catholic. Then, from her hospital bed a week before she passed on, she told him she knew what the sign would be....lightning.
I have only been to one funeral in my life, hers, and it was at 1PM at St. Anne's Church. As we arrived it was pouring out, really hard, the sky was low overcast thick clouds, and it was dark like twilight. We sat down, and got settled in, and then boom, thunder, and the lights in the church went out for a couple of minutes. Kelvin told me that when the thunder struck, he looked at his watch and it was 1 o'clock on the dot.
After the funeral, we came outside to find that there was not a cloud in the sky, I swear. Everything was soaking wet, and dripping, and the sun was shining in a clear blue sky.

 

i believe u go 2 the summerlands 2 rest and c ur past life then u chose ur next life (what lessions u will learn, wat u will b ect) go on google then type in spirit wolf summerland and tht will tell u more bout the summerlands

 

However implausible someone's experience sounds, even if it includes leprauchans, dragons, faes, sprites, angels, or demons, I do not feel it is my place to tell them that it cannot be so. What is my refutation based on? Only on the basis that I did not see it. Is that reason enough to call someone a liar? Or to infer that they are delusional? It is far more productive to accept that it could be true. What is there to lose? I haven't seen a ghost before, but it would appear that countless others have. Am I to denounce their claims on the grounds that since no ghost came to me, they must not exist?
The skeptical approach may feel more secure or more logical, but is it really?
I find it more assuring to support and trust than to imply something negative.
The dissing of these people is hurtful, and for what gain? What does one gain by naysaying? How does it help anyone? I call on the ghost of Carl Sagan to come and explain that one to me.

 

#1 ya can donate your organs so someone else can live


#2 donate your body to science

#3 be cremated--have your ashes go "blowin in the wind"

#4 be buried in cemetary and take up space.

while working in a hospital I've had to bag & tag quite a few people and bring them to the morgue. Usually right before a patient dies the nurse's try to have a family member sign a paper to see if they want to be organ donors or not.
Sorry those 4 things are the only choices that ya get when ya die.