What happens after death?

[fightclub17]

I would love to hear people's opinions on what happens after death.

 

[kurgan]

Back to eternal nothingness once again.

 

[geepeedee]

Nothing. Awareness ceases. There's nothing after brain death.

 

[scentoflavender]

i would really like for it to be nothing... just peace

 

[hurb]

The same thing that happens when u sleep.
Time just goes by

 

[Kamaainakupua]

Decomposition.
I grew up in a lot of different churches, and about the only thing all of them had in common was decomposing corpses in the graveyards behind them. All the rest was debated, twisted, distorted and then shoved down my throat as incotrovertible, irrefutable truth. Go down the block and a different truth was being forced down someone else's throat.
And yes, not all churches are like that, but the ones grabbing the headlines and the checks have to, in order to maintain control and stay bankrolled. Those garden plots aren't cheap.
I've spent a lot of time in graveyards, walking in the gardens of stone. The peace I feel there is not a spiritual connection to a loving God, it is the peace of souls departed, leaving empty husks to feed the worms. The cycle of life includes death, and we feed the next generation by dying.

 

[Matchaaa]

A return to eternal nothingness… eternal peace.
probably a blankness similar to the time before I was born. No memories, no sensations.

 

[Fadenself00]

either eternal nothingness, or reincarnation because infinity is a long time and we don't know how consciousness works in this universe.

 

[fightclub17]

I see eternal nothingness similar to being under anesthesia. You're not aware of it, nor the time. You wake up in what feels like an instant only to find out 12 hours passed by.

We are only conscious because of our brains. When we die we become one with eternal nothingness for what could be a million years but won't experience it as anything or any time, until we're spawned again into life. Where or what that life will be is the ultimate question.

 

[itsgone2]

either eternal nothingness, or reincarnation because infinity is a long time and we don't know how consciousness works in this universe.

Reincarnation is terrifying

 

[Shadows From Hell]

Nothing. You will just be a speck of dust in a mass universe.

 

[Fadenself00]

Where or what that life will be is the ultimate question

Maybe we "switch over" right into the nearest consciousness producing thing aka. brains. From the subjective viewpoint it would then make sense to experience everything right from birth/the start of that "thing" (similar to 'was the universe created last week' thought experiment), because in this deterministic model, the "consciousness-viewer" is entirely seperate from any physical interaction, meaning that for the physical brain, nothing has changed, so you would subjectively have to experience everything from the start, because the entire memory of time related to your memories, is a sort of memory as well.

 

[Zura]

will let you know once i die
tho i hope its just nothingness like we just stop existing like what was there before birth