When you die...

 When you die what do you think happens to you? I think you can believe whatever you want. Be reincarnated as a rat, alien, horse, ect. Maybe you spirit goes into another human and that was just the beginning. Maybe it is just darkness and nothing happens or its a constant dream. Maybe you go to heaven or hell, but what do you think personally happens when you die? (Besides physically being not alive...) I have just been thinking about it lately and I am not really scared to die, but what I am scared of is what happens after death. Nothing is certain.

"  When you die what do you think happens to you? I think you can believe whatever you want. Be reincarnated as a rat, alien, horse, ect. Maybe you spirit goes into another human and that was just the beginning. Maybe it is just darkness and nothing happens or its a constant dream. Maybe you go to heaven or hell, but what do you think personally happens when you die? (Besides physically being not alive...) I have just been thinking about it lately and I am not really scared to die, but what I am scared of is what happens after death. Nothing is certain. "

Not something I like to think about anymore.  I'll find out when it happens.

Fade to black.

I won't die! I'll live on in the hearts and minds of all of you!

When you die, you end.  "Blackness" doesn't happen since that would require acknowledgment and that's impossible... since you're dead.  
 
There is the entire subject of what happens with your spirit, but that is undoubtedly a touchy subject for an online forum.

" Fade to black. "

I'm not sure where I would go or what will happen and I don't think I'll have a belief that will give me an idea for the rest of my life.

Nothing, you cease to exist, no more thinking. I wish heaven was real but i know it isn't.

You die. That's it. Done and dusted (or ashed, as my preference is).

There are two destinations after death: Heaven, where God is, and Hell, where God is not.
 
If you want to go to Heaven, you must be blameless before God. With faith in Jesus Christ alone, righteousness is not attainable. Just faith; not works, not anyone else's faith, but YOUR faith.
 
If you reject the Savior, Jesus Christ, there's only one destination left for you, and that's Hell, where the unrighteous go.
 
Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no man comes to the Father except by Me."

Although I don't like to think about it, it's something that frequently comes up in my mind and actually thinking about it makes me...well...nervous.
 
Personally, I think it's over. Done, end of story. No heaven or hell.

I like to believe in the whole reincarnation shindig. Though I don't know if I think that way just to keep at the bay the thought of dieing really leading to nothing but...nothing..

Damn. You guys are getting me all down now. I wasn't expecting the same answer from everybody. I gotta pretend to be optimistic about it now... or push it out of my mind.

" Damn. You guys are getting me all down now. I wasn't expecting the same answer from everybody. I gotta pretend to be optimistic about it now... or push it out of my mind. "

You turn into an amusement park.

" You turn into an amusement park. "

i.....dont....know....... 
i hope i will be buried next to luchadeer tho

Nothing happens when you die, much like sleeping without dreams.

Zen Buddhism has the right idea. Respawning in 10...9

I belive there is no reincarnation, you will be kept somewhere. Even religious ppl before you are allowed in heaven, you will be judged and serve your time there. I belive in heaven, you don't have your memories anymore, your at peace, it's not logical. Everyone is your brother and sister there in spirt. I belive if you were murdered uncleanly, you get hostile, that's why you only see ghost around of murdered victims. If there was a god, he doesn't want to deal with any hostile spirits like that, so they are left on earth.  
 
I am aware there probally aren't too many christians around here on a site that has a word bomb in it, however that's my belif anyways.

" Zen Buddhism has the right idea. Respawning in 10...9 "

i wonder about this ,and it makes me depressed. just know that theres no real answer we will never know if there is a heaven,id like to think there is. but by the time we know it will be to late. whatever happens its the end. its hard to imagine that when my mother dies she will simply rot, ive actually cried thinking about it. so live your life to the fullest its the only one you have

nobody knows.  thats it.

" @MauveForest:  Too few people have heard of the Bardo, I suppose. A shame, I think it's one of the more intriguing and poetic takes on the afterlife. "

When I die the world will carry on as if i never existed, my family will remember me sure, but even they will find it hard to remember me in their everyday lives as time passes.  My corpse will slowly decay away in a coffin *unless of course i turn to ash*, and all my belongings will be given to others, whom couldn't possibly appreciate them as fully as I had. But, I'll be dead so its only fair

" @uniform said:

" Fade to black. "

this   ; ; "

Fuck you guys reading this thread made me feel like shit...FUCK I am gonna go smoke and bring on destiny a little bit faster.
@Colin said:

" @AjayRaz said:

" @uniform said:

" Fade to black. "

this   ; ; "

so your telling me this plays?      Sounds good to me. "

I think the idea of all of us, with consciousness and higher levels of thought, with creation and contemplation and abstraction, just going poof when our mortal whatevers break down is ludicrous. I don't know what the answer is, but I find it hard to believe that there can be a me and a you and an everybody else with so wildly divergent opinions uniting under so many layers of invention and abstraction past our biological imperatives for us to be just a biological construct that goes with our bodies. And if we're more than that, then certainly we must go somewhere. Nothing comes from absolutely nothing. So we'll feed back into wherever that spark came from.  
 
But yes, thinking about this bums me out, too. I don't know how the atheist set do it. How can you be comfortable believing that you will some day cease to exist? It gives me anxiety attacks to think too seriously about.

" @owl_of_minerva said:

" @MauveForest:  Too few people have heard of the Bardo, I suppose. A shame, I think it's one of the more intriguing and poetic takes on the afterlife. "

Well actually, that wasn't what I was talking about. Though it is as you say it is, I will have to read up on it. The general concept of respawning, a very video game-esque way of looking at the afterlife. I was expecting some to mention that idea, because we are on a video game website. "

Live until this and you won't have to worry about death from old age. But you might be dead before it happens. Maybe if you stay healthy and you are young you'll make it.

We all end up in the church sometime.

I'm a heaven and hell guy myself. It is what makes sense to me. If there was no heaven and hell, whats the point of being moral?

Whenever someone asks me this, I ask "What did it feel like before you were born?" 
 
Non existence is impossible to fathom. 

When you die, it won't matter what happens because you'll be dead. Therefore, you won't be able to think about it, feel it, or anything. It's better to focus on the life ahead of you rather than what happens when it's over.

" I'm a heaven and hell guy myself. It is what makes sense to me. If there was no heaven and hell, whats the point of being moral? "

"Whenever someone asks me this, I ask "What did it feel like before you were born?"  Non existence is impossible to fathom.  "

" @Wipeout said:

"Whenever someone asks me this, I ask "What did it feel like before you were born?"  Non existence is impossible to fathom.  "

That's cause it doesn't exist.  Also, heaven and hell logically make no sense. Seriously, how big would that place be? "

Fade to nothingness. You are no more. I'd assume only because your brain no longer functions but life after death isn't completely discredited

" @Wipeout said:

"Whenever someone asks me this, I ask "What did it feel like before you were born?"  Non existence is impossible to fathom.  "

That's cause it doesn't exist.  Also, heaven and hell logically make no sense. Seriously, how big would that place be? "

Spartans don't die.

Another soul for the elder god's milkshake.

" @Shirogane said:

" @Wipeout said:

"Whenever someone asks me this, I ask "What did it feel like before you were born?"  Non existence is impossible to fathom.  "

That's cause it doesn't exist.  Also, heaven and hell logically make no sense. Seriously, how big would that place be? "

How is anything after death defined by logic?  How is saying there's nothingness after death any more logical than saying there's a Heaven or a Hell?  There's no proof, no scientific evidence whatsoever, therefore there is no "logic" to be had, here. "

" I'm a heaven and hell guy myself. It is what makes sense to me. If there was no heaven and hell, whats the point of being moral? "

" @arab_prince said:

" I'm a heaven and hell guy myself. It is what makes sense to me. If there was no heaven and hell, whats the point of being moral? "

this is exactly what's wrong with religion.  You're basically saying that the only reason people aren't out in the streets right now killing each other is because they want to go to heaven and not hell.  But if there was no hell then they would do whatever they want even if it hurts other people.  If you actually think like this you are a horrible person.  I'm a good person because I want to be a good person.  I don't think it's right to hurt another person. I don't just try to be good out of fear of eternal damnation.  That's fucking bullshit. "

" @Shirogane said:

" @Wipeout said:

"Whenever someone asks me this, I ask "What did it feel like before you were born?"  Non existence is impossible to fathom.  "

That's cause it doesn't exist.  Also, heaven and hell logically make no sense. Seriously, how big would that place be? "

How is anything after death defined by logic?  How is saying there's nothingness after death any more logical than saying there's a Heaven or a Hell?  There's no proof, no scientific evidence whatsoever, therefore there is no "logic" to be had, here. "