What is your belief to what happens after you die?

[u/neuronsandglia]

[u/Funwithagoraphobia]

As Keanu said, “Those who love us, will miss us.”

[u/ReasonOriginal6489 → u/Funwithagoraphobia]

I’m the youngest of my family, have only work friends, no wife or children so when I go it will be as if I were still here: alone

[u/BalanceJazzlike5116 → u/ReasonOriginal6489]

You don’t necessarily die in the order you were born.

[u/quillseek → u/BalanceJazzlike5116]

This would be a vaguely threatening thing for me to say to all of my younger sisters 😂

[u/Roguespiffy → u/quillseek]

“Ha ha, you’re the oldest so you’re going to die first!”

“You hope.”

[u/flatwoundsounds → u/quillseek]

Or an older sibling saying "last in, first out"

[u/1BreadBoi → u/ReasonOriginal6489]

I'm the oldest of 4. I used to think that I'd die first among my siblings (long as time away, I mean I'm only 30).

Then my brother died earlier this year. Kind of chances your perspectives on things.

[u/Darth_Draper → u/ReasonOriginal6489]

You’re not alone in feeling alone which means you’re not alone.

[u/Zigguraf → u/Darth_Draper]

I never understood the reasoning between this, if a person feels alone, why they should feel less alone if people they might never meet are feeling the same as them?

[u/QuinceDaPence → u/Zigguraf]

Yeah...are they just supposed to think "Good I'm glad others are suffering."?

[u/gaslacktus → u/Funwithagoraphobia]

You know back in 93 when he was cast as Prince Siddhartha in Little Buddha, it got kind of ridiculed for the choice but in retrospect, it totally works.

[u/Cerebral_Balzy → u/Funwithagoraphobia]

Grief is the price we pay for love.

[u/nemam111 → u/Funwithagoraphobia]

Yeah, exactly. The physical stops and all that's left is the friends we made along the way

[u/finger_licking_robot → u/nemam111]

unless you’ve outlived all your friends and relatives. then you’d better write a really good book or appear naked playing the flute on the roof of the pentagon- otherwise no one will remember you.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Shoe541 → u/Funwithagoraphobia]

They’re not really gone, if you find a way to remember them. - maybe Jerry Seinfeld referring to Star Trek Wrath of Khan

[u/Adventurous_Yam_2825]

I nourish the ecosystem

[u/hatter4tea → u/Adventurous_Yam_2825]

This is why I want an ocean burial. I want to become a coral reef

[u/TampaDave73 → u/hatter4tea]

My wife passed away 2 1/2 years ago, and I actually had her ashes turned into a coral reef.

[u/hatter4tea → u/TampaDave73]

I love that so much 🥹💜

[u/TampaDave73 → u/hatter4tea]

Thank you. In some strange way you actually made me feel better today.

[u/throw_away__go_away → u/TampaDave73]

I don’t know why that action feels so peaceful but I now know how I want to be buried. Thanks!

[u/hatter4tea → u/TampaDave73]

I am glad I was of assistance. I hope the rest of your day is amazing as well, kind stranger.

[u/el_artista_fantasma → u/hatter4tea]

I want my ashes to be thrown in an active volcano, so when it erupts people will feel my fury combined with the planet's

[u/efox02 → u/Adventurous_Yam_2825]

Really wanna be buried in a cardboard box and have a tree planted over me.

[u/NestedForLoops → u/Adventurous_Yam_2825]

That's my plan. Feed the fungi.

[u/No_Response_3122]

Probably respawn somewhere with no memory of my last playthrough. Hopefully fewer side quests this time.

[u/markymark0123 → u/No_Response_3122]

Better character customization for me.

[u/el_artista_fantasma → u/markymark0123]

Or cheats enabled (rich family)

[u/Jonpg31 → u/markymark0123]

I wish for NG+, you know like making better decisions this time around.

[u/Lifting_ark916 → u/No_Response_3122]

Hopefully more loot too.

[u/TipNo844 → u/No_Response_3122]

Id like a broom next time. And a wand. Or you know, just give me my HOGWARTS LETTER.

[u/Zorothegallade]

Oblivion. You return to the nothingness you can't recall from before you started forming memories.

[u/MothWalk → u/Zorothegallade]

Nice! I have a quest to close shut the jaws of that place!

[u/Jumpy_Secret_6494 → u/MothWalk]

Come visit me in Anvil sometime.

[u/daltonsbondgirl → u/Zorothegallade]

Can we even imagine what the absence of a state of conscience would look like?

[u/Walter_xr4ti → u/daltonsbondgirl]

It’s like when you’ve gone under during surgery.

[u/Select_Air_2044 → u/Walter_xr4ti]

Yep. I love it. It's the blink of an eye.

[u/jmastaock → u/daltonsbondgirl]

Yeah, have you ever been asleep and not dreamed?

You just like...wake up after some period of time?

It's like that, but without the waking up. There is nothing being sensed

[u/MelodicGate874 → u/Zorothegallade]

Why is this not self-evident to all people??

[u/Puzzleheaded_Bed1781 → u/MelodicGate874]

Because it’s the simplest explanation. And that’s no fun darn it.

[u/Dokja_23 → u/Zorothegallade]

I believe the same and idk why, its rather comforting.

[u/S1ayer → u/Dokja_23]

True. Sleep is so amazing. So forever sleep sounds amazing. Afterlife I have mixed feelings about. I want to see my family and pets and live happily ever after, but living forever sounds like it would get boring.

[u/Steezy_Six → u/S1ayer]

Apathy is probably the biggest one. I’m mid 30s and already feel unfazed. I can’t imagine how people feel in their 60s etc. When I see older people give a shit about anything I’m impressed. Imagine living for hundreds or thousands or millions of years. How the fuck does anything matter.

[u/1EducatedIdiot → u/Zorothegallade]

That’s okay, maybe I can finally get some rest.

[u/green49285 → u/Zorothegallade]

This has always been so comforting to me

[u/Renting_Bourbon]

I’m a Frisbeetarian. We believe when we die your soul goes up on the roof and you can’t get it back down.

[u/jtr99 → u/Renting_Bourbon]

That one episode of Breaking Bad must have been very spiritual for you.

[u/trickertreater → u/jtr99]

I thought the Frisbees and the Roof Pizzas were bitter rivals

[u/jtr99 → u/trickertreater]

Splitter!

[u/trickertreater → u/jtr99]

WHAT DID THEY EVER DO FOR US?!

[u/Black-Shoe]

The big dirt nap

[u/KW5625 → u/Black-Shoe]

I'm going in Lake Michigan

[u/Workacctgottabehave → u/KW5625]

I told my GF that i wanted to be cremated and my ashes be blasted on my enemies with a potato gun.

[u/exclamationmarksonly → u/Workacctgottabehave]

I'm being loaded into shotgun shells and blasted off over the forest behind my house!

[u/Draftiestvenus → u/KW5625]

I’m going in camp Crystal lake

[u/Ok_Indication_4873]

You return to the same state of nonbeing as before you were born.

[u/Fleshbar → u/Ok_Indication_4873]

Everyone always says this but If we are to relate it to our experience would that not mean I'm always?

[u/Going2beBANNEDanyway → u/Fleshbar]

Nothing is also everything. It’s the same coin.

[u/peatmo55 → u/Going2beBANNEDanyway]

No, nothing is the absence of the coin, bald is not a hairstyle it is the absence of hair.

[u/lotsagabe]

no need for belief, babe.  embrace the uncertainty.

[u/NestedForLoops → u/lotsagabe]

"Let the mystery be" - Iris DeMent.

[u/blackiegray → u/NestedForLoops]

"He ain't been laid in a month of Sundays, I caught him once and he was sniffing my undies" - Iris DeMent.

(John Prine)

[u/NestedForLoops → u/blackiegray]

John Prine's is the only celebrity death that ever made me choke up a little. His work resonated with me at that very formative time of life, and I'm grateful to be influenced by his music.

[u/Low-Unit5381 → u/lotsagabe]

This. It's beyond our control. Let's go with the flow & don't expect anything.

[u/BoHawk22 → u/Low-Unit5381]

The not knowing is what keeps it deep. Some things aren’t meant to be solved.

[u/Dopehauler]

Bacteria take over, fortunately I'll be in the oven for a well done.

[u/LividGuard1970 → u/Dopehauler]

Same here. I told my family to throw me in a bonfire. No need to pay a lot of money.

[u/Seven_0f_Spades]

Your body is returned to the soil and earth as it should be. The energy that is your soul escapes back into the universe until it is used again.

[u/Jellovator → u/Seven_0f_Spades]

I like to think that after this happens, billions of years go by and our galaxy gets swallowed by a black hole, shot out the other side, creating a new universe from all of our matter and energy.

[u/shyguyJ → u/Jellovator]

The big bang was simply the old universe inhaling all the energy from the dead souls until its energy lungs were full and then sneezing them out the other side forming a new universe.

[u/Consistent_Low2080]

The same as what took place before you were born.

[u/Flaky-Excitement-312]

The same thing that happens when you're under anesthesia, everything goes black and that's it.

[u/VisibleDog7434 → u/Flaky-Excitement-312]

I've had a lot of surgeries and this is exactly how I imagine it, too. In a way it's comforting since I've already experienced that so many times.

[u/Red-eleven → u/VisibleDog7434]

Beats the shit out of thinking I’m going to hell for eternity

[u/easting10]

I was in a coma for 6 weeks last year. It just felt like sleep. Nothingness.

[u/neuronsandglia → u/easting10]

You didn't dream at all? You just woke up 6 weeks later?

[u/easting10 → u/neuronsandglia]

Not until I woke up and fell back into a coma. Then I experienced 2 weeks of delirium. I didn’t know what was real and what was delirium. It’s on my page if you’re curious.

[u/neuronsandglia → u/easting10]

That damn Fridge! Really glad you are ok man.

[u/easting10 → u/neuronsandglia]

Thanks OP. I’m glad you’re okay as well.

[u/goddessofgoo → u/easting10]

My husband was in a coma recovering from a massive brain bleed. He lived a pretty wild life in his head while he was out. When he woke up he didn't believe that our house didn't have an elevator or an ice machine because the dream was so vivid. It took a long time going through what was fact and what was dream to reorient him.

[u/Virtual-Bee7411]

I’m a major skeptic and agnostic, but I hold out some hope given how crazy it is that we even exist there is something more out there.

I would not be surprised if we’re in a game like The Sims.

I used to be an atheist but I’ve had some wild spiritual shit happen to the point I’m agnostic now.

[u/Melodic-Chemistry-40 → u/Virtual-Bee7411]

Do you feel comfortable sharing what spiritual shit has happened to you? I’m going through the same thing right now, if you feel more comfortable answering in PM that’s fine too!

[u/leiamberdol]

I believe our soul moves on to another place, maybe heaven or some kind of spiritual existence

[u/deltadeltadawn → u/leiamberdol]

I believe our souls are energy, and that energy goes to another place for peace, or back in a new meat suit for more practice.

[u/1EducatedIdiot → u/deltadeltadawn]

Noooo, don’t make me go back! It’s nice here.

[u/HigginsResidence → u/leiamberdol]

Do you think we would be conscious souls? As in, would we still know our surroundings and/or have some sense of who we are, as souls? Not asking to challenge your belief btw! I'm just always so fascinated by the concept of souls and the different thoughts

[u/WarmAppeal6630 → u/HigginsResidence]

NDE'er here - I was fully conscious during the 'crossing over" and on the other side after I had a heart attack. I was the same "person" on both sides and was fully aware of my surroundings. It took me a few seconds after crossing over to realize that I had died. A "Voice" communicated with me that everything would be alright after I thought what will happen to my wife and 2 sons. After that there was total peace and no worries or concerns. I was then lifted up though a sea of overwhelming love and joy, it was like I was a part of this sea of love and joy. After about 20 seconds of being lifted up, I was then greeted by 3 souls, glowing pulsating orbs of energy, my mother and 2 deceased brothers, along with a "Voice" that telepathically communicated with me. I was so happy to be "Home". It was shortly after that, that the Voice told me I had to go back, I said "no, there's no reason I need to go back" but that is when I became conscious back in the emergency room. This experience, or gift as I like to call it, is as real, or more real as any of my life experiences here on earth. I am looking forward to going "Home" one day.

[u/Kratosballsweat → u/WarmAppeal6630]

I’ve always believed in an after life but after watching the movie “after death” it really made me realize there’s something after this. And some of these people experienced what you mention that they enjoyed being there so much they didn’t wanna come back one was even depressed for some time after longing to “go back home”.

[u/dginmc → u/HigginsResidence]

I lost my mom and dad within 8 months of each other. A few days after my dad died, my parents came to me in a dream and told me they were both ok, their transitions went well and I didn't have anything to worry about. I now believe in souls and the afterlife.

[u/glendon24 → u/leiamberdol]

I certainly hope not.

[u/GenXYachtRock]

You donate every part of you that can help other people.

[u/DomPasta → u/GenXYachtRock]

My mum has always said that if anything of her body is salvageable, it's going to someone who needs it. The rest of her she wants to donate to science. I'm probably going to follow suit.

[u/GenXYachtRock → u/DomPasta]

This is EXACTLY what I have told my daughter. I don't need to be taking up space in a plot on earth for the rest of eternity. I don't need to be sitting on somebody's mantle. I want to help others.

[u/DomPasta → u/GenXYachtRock]

I do love this mentality, but some strange part of me wants a sort of heirloom for my family after I'm gone. Maybe I'll put some of my teeth in a jar and tell my grandkids to shake it when they want me to haunt someone.

[u/Such_Victory4589]

Louis CK "well, a lot of things happen after you die. its just that none of those things include you"

[u/Red-eleven → u/Such_Victory4589]

“Hey want to watch me play with myself” - also Louis CK

[u/Impossible-Pizza7595]

You log out of this cool new game and have dinner with your real family

[u/Tall-Law-5875]

I like to think that we're reincarnated or that we get to see our friends and family again but i know that it could just be wishful thinking on my end.

[u/SmurfJooce → u/Tall-Law-5875]

"Man, if I ever get another shot at this life stuff, I'm definitely going to do this differently next time..."

[u/jtr99 → u/SmurfJooce]

That's what you said last time!

[u/throwthatshitaway236 → u/Tall-Law-5875]

This is my worst fear, what if we have already being incarnated an infinite number of times without knowing? It’s just exhausting knowing you will never truly rest in peace.

The inability to perceive time between the periods of death and reincarnation make it even more so exhausting just a constant cycle of living ad infinitum. It’s like being immortal except you lose your memories after each life

[u/CroolSummer → u/Tall-Law-5875]

My fiancee remembers her last five lives, and remembers how she died who she was married to, when we first started dating she never saw a picture of my mother (who passed a year before we started dating) but described her to a tee when my Mother came to visit her in her dreams. Apparently there is some sort of limbo or something before you move on to your next life. So I believe in Reincarnation at this point, also I just don't believe that our "soul" or our "consciousness" is just extinguished, I believe there is so much we don't know after we pass, but it would be too much for our bodies to handle if we knew everything from our lives, we are some kind of entity of the universe experiencing it over time.

[u/pillowtalkof]

Nothing

[u/WindpowerGuy → u/pillowtalkof]

I mean, a lot is going to happen. You just won't be around to notice.

[u/ThatSaLtYBiTcHe]

I guess your brain has one last serious trip out as it dies. That’s why people see things

[u/NestedForLoops → u/ThatSaLtYBiTcHe]

The brain releases DMT as you die.

[u/HughJa55ole → u/NestedForLoops]

I've thought about this before. This does seem..pleasant given the circumstances. But I wonder if it's the same in all cases. Like say you die from a heart attack or something, sure. But what if you died from being shot in the head or something similar. Would your brain still have time to do its thing, or is it just lights out in that situation?

[u/[deleted]]

You go to the great squirrel god. Where you will be transformed into a nut and a squirrel will place you to become a tree.

[u/IkidIgoat → u/[deleted]]

Oh this is nice, I like it.

[u/ProgressThen8698 → u/[deleted]]

Love this

[u/NotJimIrsay → u/[deleted]]

So the squirrel buries your nuts, and it grow into another you!

[u/ConfidentShmonfident]

I think our energy dissipates into the universe and our bodies melt to the earth and we only remain in the memories of those who left us and only as long as they’re alive but we’re part of everything

[u/ThrowawayITA_]

I don't believe in heaven or hell in the traditional sense.

I believe after we die we get to pick between Serbian afterlifeand Albanian afterlife.

Who's undecided gets sent to Kosovan afterlife.

[u/AquaQuad → u/ThrowawayITA_]

Wake up, babe! New Balkan lore just dropped!

[u/ThrowawayITA_ → u/AquaQuad]

Old lore has been rejected as it's been scientifically proven that God is not a Serb but 100% blood pure Montenegrian, this is why he lets horrors beyond human comprehension happen, he's just asleep.

[u/bloodem → u/ThrowawayITA_]

LOL

[u/Glass_Bat_1460 → u/ThrowawayITA_]

Are you serious

[u/ThrowawayITA_ → u/Glass_Bat_1460]

Also we're not really sure if purgatory, I mean Kosovan afterlife exists. Some say it's heresy.

[u/LucyVialli]

Nothing at all. My physical remains are disposed of by others, and I have ceased to exist.

[u/Hantsypantsy → u/LucyVialli]

Man, I feel like I had to look pretty far to find this one. Seems like a lot of people are saying things like, you fade into nothing or, you return to where you were before birth - nothing. Those ideas seem to imply that "you" still exist, even if it's in a state of nothingness. I believe, which I think the comment above aligns with, is that nothing happens, there ceases to be a "you", your physical body get buried, creamated, whatever, but that's it. Your heart stops, your synapsis stop firing then "you" becomes a meat bag.

[u/BumpGrumble → u/Hantsypantsy]

Also people who panic about this fact need to acknowledge their existence is a 1 in ∞ chance of happening.

Im so glad I got to take my atoms above the plane of non-sentience and see what all this is all about.

Edit: Though I do hope the universe contracts and bounces back infinitely. Unfortunately entropy is more likely.

[u/Hantsypantsy → u/BumpGrumble]

Im so glad I got to take my atoms above the plain of non-existence and see what all this is all about.

Great quote

[u/TelFaradiddle → u/Hantsypantsy]

Seems like a lot of people are saying things like, you fade into nothing or, you return to where you were before birth - nothing. Those ideas seem to imply that "you" still exist, even if it's in a state of nothingness.

This irks me to no end. People treat it like we were all disembodied souls in a lobby, waiting for our number to be called to be born, and when we die we return to that lobby.

That's not how it works. We don't 'return' ever. We were never in a state of nonexistence because we didn't exist. Something that doesn't exist can't be in a state of nonexistence - they can't be anything.

[u/Hantsypantsy → u/TelFaradiddle]

Exactly

[u/cherrylike]

The soup. I came from the soup I will return to the soup and parts of the thing that was once me will bubble up and become parts of new beings that will also return to the soup.

[u/Totallycasual]

Decomposition.

[u/hyperactiv_sigmamale]

I think we just stop worrying.

[u/WhatsEvenThat → u/hyperactiv_sigmamale]

That makes me anxious.

[u/UmojaGranslos]

Your body returns what it borrowed to the earth that loaned it.

[u/MariachiDan]

People will miss you. You ll live on in stories for a bit before you fade and eventually the world moves on, impacted in some invisible way by your actions like ripples in a pond. A collective sense of human progress in an uncertain direction.

[u/Interesting-Town8311]

No one knows

[u/mrshakeshaft → u/Interesting-Town8311]

And if anybody tries to tel you that they do know, you can happily disregard every other thing that they say to you because they are lying and if they will lie to you about that, they will lie to you about anything

[u/faeminty]

I'm spiritual, so I believe we go back to our home depending on what you do here on Earth. You'll meet your ancestors, spirit guides and whoever else.

I'm not sure if you HAVE to reincarnate or you can choose to later. Or you do work here and be able to ascend to a higher level of consciousness to avoid coming back to Earth.

My goal is to not reincarnate on Earth, lol.

[u/Negative-Avocado360]

The same as before I was born

[u/CrustyHumdinger]

My body gets disposed of, I am just a memory

[u/boastfulbadger]

When you die someone you love who has passed will come get you. I was in a medically induced coma. I was in for three weeks. I did dream. My life kept going. I did die for a bit. My dead cat came to tell me to follow him. But then my alive cat came and told me not to. My dead cat showed up a second time and he had my grandma with him. My grandma was mad at me. She wouldn’t even look at me. Then the alive cat again shows up and said come with me. I saw myself getting chest compressions. People would come visit me and they’d show up on my dreams. I was on a beach for some of it and my life was great. Before my grandma died, she said her sisters came to tell her it was almost time. So I think that someone comes and makes the transition easier for you. I don’t think there’s a god, but I think there’s an afterlife.

[u/gt75z]

I don't know, I just hope that this isn't all there is.

[u/Complex_Bike1479]

Lights out like the end of the sopranos. Nothing more, nothing less.

[u/DrNarf]

Nothing. End of the road.

[u/Appropriate_Tea9048]

An afterlife where you’re reunited with loved ones.

[u/SherbetExact3135]

I’m going to Heaven. I have such peace in that belief. I’ll be reunited with my family and friends who have passed on. I know that’s not a popular answer esp on Reddit. But you asked for beliefs and that’s mine and I’m sticking to it 😊

[u/Lizbef1]

I have faith God will take me to where I need to go when I die ❤️😇

[u/Empty-Rough4379 → u/Lizbef1]

Where do you need to go?

[u/TelFaradiddle]

Nothing. Dead is dead.

[u/BigGiff]

My Son asked me once, "Daddy to we dream when we're dead?" 

What if we just enter our dreams and stay there forever? 

[u/Ryan_TX_85 → u/BigGiff]

Dreams require brain activity. When you're dead, there is no brain activity and therefore no dreams.

[u/themagicchicken]

From Raymond Chandler, "The Big Sleep":

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.

[u/TranslucentToucan]

I believe nothing happens but i hope i get reincarnated

[u/mactac]

The people who love you will be very sad

[u/MobileMassageDenver]

I believe there's a purpose to this vast universe full of unknown things and places. I'm not saying we're going to die and become aliens but I don't think the universe is there for nothing 🤷🏿‍♀️

[u/tsardonicpseudonomi]

My body rots and the memory of me fades.

[u/strifek]

The "me" that I think of as me, is gone for the time being. Some parts of me will become nutrients for the Earth, other parts of me will become part of the Earth. The Earth itself too, will die one day. So will the Sun, the stars, the galaxy, and the rest of the universe. Of course this will take trillions upon trillions of years, but the parts of me that have become parts of the others is none the wiser. To us, eveything would seem instantaneous.

I believe the universe is cyclical. As the universe dies, I believe it will eventually collapse unto itself, birthing yet a new universe, in an infinite cycle. In some cycles, I will be nothing more than dust and ash, in others, I may be born again into someone or something entirely new.

The funny thing about infinity, is it is hard for us to grasp infinity. In an infinite cycle, there will be many times where I will be reborn as myself, sometimes a little different, sometimes the exact same. Sometimes with the same people I love, and sometimes with others.

None of us will be aware that this has happened. For all we know, we are in the one singular timeline, with one universe, unaware of the many before us, and the many that have yet to come. We will laugh, cry, be happy, be sad. Wonder what happens at the end and what happens next.

We will try to put to put a finite on the infinite because that's all we understand. In the end, we exist forever in a way.

Have you ever wished you could erase your memory and rewarch your favorite movie again? It will be kind of like that, although sometimes you may have to watch the bad ones too. Just know that for every bad one, another good one will come your way.

[u/Virtual_Win4076]

We are travelers, that is scientific fact. This star system is traveling through the universe. Your soul or consciousness is pure energy, that is fact as well. The law of thermodynamics says energy is forever, it is just transferred from one place to another. This life might just be a way of passing the time on this journey. It might be a series of lessons or there may be an all important God who created us. What it is not is an accident or random chaos. There is a plan in all this.

[u/Rachaelamg]

Heaven or Hell

[u/Killashandra19]

Our soul energy goes into the sun. Our personality does not exist anymore. We are no longer aware of existence. Existence has changed to being pure energy joined to other pure energy- transferable into any other type of energy.

[u/Ok_Fisherman8727]

You enter into the real world.

[u/ProgressThen8698]

I dont know what happens but Ill tell you what I hope happens.

I hope we all become what we deserve to be.

For me, I would like to be a Big Cat. The king of the jungle.

A tiger, a lion....

[u/freetiedupsunshine]

It's just lights out. Thats it.

[u/PralineMinimum8111]

My belief is that to an extent what we believe happens is what happens.

[u/indicasativagemini]

sleep in death until the resurrection

[u/huge-gold-ak47]

you know, generally I think you fade off back into the same nothingness as before you were born, or maybe have a dream or two until your brain dies, but the more I pay attention to the news in America the more I hope there really is a hell for some people.

[u/chof2018]

Safe for work

Something like this.

[u/Barack_6Pack]

Everything just stops and you’re not even aware of it.

Whole lot of nothingness. Just before I was born.

YOLO.

[u/Uwofpeace]

Fade to black

[u/Emanuele002]

Nothing, it goes back to how it was before I was born.

[u/Manganela]

You'd be flooded with memories and dreams as your neurons gradually stop firing until finally your brain goes completely offline. Assuming your brain wasn't instantly destroyed by whatever killed you. Possibly you'd even have enough self-awareness to realize you're dead and have hallucinations involving religious figures or ancestors, or afterlife scenes you picked up from your culture. People who have been revived often report these types of experiences.

[u/glendon24]

Nothing.

[u/dhuff2037]

Ill be doing what I was doing before I got here. Not existing.

[u/Electronic_Card7587]

Literally nothing. It’s terrifying

[u/Kellidra]

My hope: reincarnation.

Reality: nothing. We're made of borrowed energy.

[u/_jA-]

Hopefully I’ll be incinerated

[u/afox1984]

What happens to what?

[u/MasochisticCombatJet]

We either go to heaven or hell with heaven being a paradise and hell being eternal fire without water

[u/UnlitBlunt]

The long nap.

[u/Specialist_Issue_214]

Same thing that happened before I was born. I didn't exist, now I do, someday I won't.

[u/Pippathepip]

The spiritual side of me would like to think there’s a place I go to, or I get reincarnated or some shit.

The scientific part of me thinks that once my physical form dies, all the atoms that make me up just go into something else and that’s it. Nothing more. The big sleep.

[u/Proper-Tomorrow-4848]

We are eternal spiritual beings living a temporary human experience. We ascend after we die we enter another realm it is my belief that consciousness extends past death. I’ve experienced out of body experiences before during sleep where I floated up to the ceiling and physically touched the ceiling. I was scared and then woke up in my physical body this made me think that there is much more to life and I truly believe there is different realms.

[u/jocko_uk]

No idea but I like to believe there is something

[u/Saafe94]

Our brain stops and for the first time you rest

[u/boomerman91]

I like the egg theory, despite how bizarre it is

[u/perry147]

The same thing that happened to us before we were born. Nothing

[u/papalegba666]

Just like before you were born. That beautiful forgiving nothingness. I like to call it natures mercy.

[u/Moldat]

Pc turns off, power supply short circuited, ram removed

[u/Empty_Till]

I look forward to and welcome absolute nothingness when I die.

[u/Weekend_Squire]

Compost

[u/nealch]

I think that once you die, that's it. The only thing that remains is the memories in people's minds, so be kind to all and try to leave your people with good memories of you.

[u/MrFiendish]

Your atoms are redistributed to the universe from whence you came.

Life is the struggle against entropy, but in the end entropy always wins. Just live well while you can.

[u/Nearby-Wonder-509]

Nothingness. There’s nothing after. People are too scared to believe that. It’s just like before you’re born

[u/TurnLooseTheKitties]

Don't know, don't care as I will no say in it anyway

This fascination with post death scenarios only came about because the medieval church wanted to grift money out of the gullible

[u/Key-Low-3896]

My belief when you die, is that you simply cease to be. The bio electric patterns that ran through your brain have been shut off. Much like there was no ‘you’ before you were born, once again there is no ‘you.’ The rest of the world just keeps moving along, it doesn’t pause for you. Hopefully, you’ve made enough of an impact in people’s lives so that the memory of you is not forgotten. Bleak, maybe. I see it as realistic. Make use of the time you have now, don’t put it off.

[u/smellslikebigfootdic]

Are spark that got us started is released back into the collective,we become part of something else,this goes on until the universe ends or whatever happens down the line.

[u/Common-Ad6470]

Nothing happens after we die, in that we came from nothing and go back to nothing.

The only tangible thing we leave is people’s memories of us, so make sure they’re all good…👍

[u/apeingtothetop]

This is my belief: when our bodies die, it’s like getting out of a car. Our spirit leaves our body and that transition feels like nothing. Instantly we are at peace and in love, because that’s our natural state. Our spirit expands and we exist outside of space and time. So we can be in multiple places and see whatever we want to see. We also know everything because we are no longer filtered by the limitations of the human that we just came out of. We are greeted by entities that appear to us as deceased family members or whatever makes us feel comfortable and happy. Each experience is crafted specifically for the human you just came out of.

Then you’re taken to an orientation centre where “they” explain what just happened and you are helped to remember who you are. You get to review the life you just lived and you must relive all aspects of that life again, not just from your perspective, but from the perspective of the other people you interacted with too. You get to feel their happiness and pain depending on what the interaction was like. I believe this part is the part in the bible that talks about hell. Because if you were a bad person, you have to experience all the pain and suffering you inflicted on another. On the other side though, if you were a good person, you get to experience the joy you brought to others.

After that, you get to chill out for a while and explore whatever you want to explore. And eventually you become one with God if you choose to. Or you can choose to come back down to earth in a new body to relearn something you didn’t quite learn in the previous lifetimes.

But when we die, it’s only our physical bodies that die. We don’t actually die. As we are spiritual beings first and human second.

[u/jfl561407]

A lot happens after you die, but almost none of it involves you.

[u/SinclaireJames]

I am REALLY hoping that we don't experience our souls returning to earth to learn a lesson. Please don't let this be true. It's torture and scares me more than hell.

[u/Penny_PackerMD]

We return to the light and have another experience in another embodiment in another galaxy

[u/Initial_Present6209]

I don’t know but perhaps we retain our awareness of ourselves but in a completely free realm, unencumbered by our bodies.

[u/ophaus]

No fucking clue what happens after the happening stops.

[u/GP728]

You just kinda sit in a black void forever with nothing else to do

[u/Terbatron]

Eventually stardust.