What do you personally believe happens after death? Be honest.

[Ligottian]

For what this little anecdote is worth...

In1964, when I was 4 years old, my paternal grandmother died of cancer. My parents had gotten the word that the end was very near. My father travelled across the state to the nursing home she was in. One morning, my mother was on the phone with my father. When they hung up, my mother turned to me and with a a sad voice simply said "Granny died". I had never been told about death, but I somehow knew that meant she was gone forever, and not to some "other place"

It's a childhood memory I will never forget.

 

[Elsie]

Reincarnation. Just that. Repeating round and round.

 

[Realgar]

I am not sure. I tend to think that we go to a spirit world.

 

[kuroshimi]

Pretty much nothing. I don't belive in any kind of afterlife. This chills and scares me at the same time.

 

[Bubba]

Huge relief

 

[Unlucky777]

Non existence. But I'm ok with that. I had a ketamine experience and they say it resembles a near death experience. It was beautiful and painful and everything started flashing at me. That's how I imagine dying will be.

Nice, was it a k hole? I've yet to k hole, I wanna experience it

 

[kipstriesagain]

nothing I hope it's nothing

 

[yxmux]

i would imagine it would be like having your consciousness and senses and the like fading into background noise since there's no longer an integrated structure that powers itself, kind of like a radio station going off air. "your" subjective experience would be virtually nothing and without any distinction of space or time or identity.

 

[traingirl]

Nice, was it a k hole? I've yet to k hole, I wanna experience it

Not even close but it was still a powerful experience. I think I wanna do a k hole before I go.

 

[badatparties]

I've flatlined 3 times... non-existence is what's next
I've flatlined 3 times... non-existence is what's next

In another post, you said you had an NDE.

 

[Endlichkeit]

Neither birth nor death exists. There is no one to be born or to die. Only experience exists, and it has neither beginning nor end. Time itself exists within it.

 

[Blueberry Panic]

In another post, you said you had an NDE.

I've had 3

 

[dead dav]

I think you go back to nothing like before you were born when you die it's like a computer being shut down for the last time eternal peace

 

[Macedonian1987]

I have read thousands of NDEs in the last 10 years. I strongly believe that there is an afterlife of some sort. People do not go to heaven or to hell like religions tells us. People after dying they all go to a same place eventually. The good people go to that place right away, while the evil ones who did a lot of bad things while they were alive, go to that place after enduring all the pain that they inflicted on others while they were alive.

This is what I believe.

 

[Lost.Empyrean]

i'm not sure. I hope we either cease to exist completely or lingering spiritually for awhile before fading. Preferably the ladder as I have people to torture.

But regardless, the uncertainty makes it exciting doesn't it? only one way to find out.

 

[Fish_astronaut]

Nothing, thankfully

 

[fadedghost]

oblivion, but also i don't think the past stops existing, unfortunately, you just stop existing after time X, but the earlier times still exist and are perceivable

 

[Black_Knight]

Everything I think is stupid and noncommittal so I don't know how strong my beliefs are. I think the afterlife might be real, but maybe not everyone has one. Some people have near death experiences and some don't. I don't think there's necessarily an objective moral component to it either. I also don't know whether I think afterlives are internally generated or the result of interference from entities we can't ordinarily sense. In either case, the moral component would come from either self-judgment or adhering to the unknown standards of external beings. Near death experiences also might not indicate that an afterlife can be sustained indefinitely during death (if internally generated) or after (external consciousness uploading).

I can conceive of an internally generated afterlife as something that happens while you die, with asymptotically (I hope I used that word right, I hate math) increasing time dilation that puts off the event of actual death indefinitely. I could see the quality of an afterlife like this degrading over time to conserve ever narrowing resources, while mental processes quicken to attempt to understand something that they can't understand while metabolic processes of the "overbody" shut down. I can see new mental "under bodies" being constructed to create new locuses of consciousness in the system that becomes further and further removed from depending upon those dying processes. The afterlife experience would only shut down when forced to or when that understanding is finally reached. I don't think this is as far fetched as it initially sounds, because we already know that we can create mental bodies when we dream. One thing to consider with this is that how you die might be important. Something too sudden might not provide time for the experience to launch.

It might also be bottom up instead of top down. Instead of "big reality" dying, and consciousness crawling into smaller and smaller crevices to preserve yourself, "small reality" might die and consciousness expands to escape that dying process instead. Both seem like an avoidance response to me.

An externally generated afterlife is simpler but more terrifying. You basically have to hope that whatever's out there doesn't hate you, or that you're not as disempowered "out there" as we are here.

I also think it's possible that these are completely imaginary scenarios, and when it ends there's nothing. But reality can be pretty weird.

 

[Pony Slaystation]

What happens to a millipede after it dies? Or an orangutan? I don't see why we would experience anything different from either of those creatures. Some people think we're a special creature but I'm not seeing it.