What Happens When we die?

[Desocia]

I have sat down and thought about this for hours on end with no conclusion. I am an atheist but it is hard for my brain to register that all humans completely cease to exist when they die. It is easy to believe that when you die, you go to some magical world but I think that is a illogical way of thinking and understanding things. It is very unknown whether or not such a place exists and I think that is what scares me. I don't think anyone has a good understanding of what happens when a person dies, but I am going to throw it out there for NSG to discuss.

What happens after you die? Is there some sort of after life or do you completely cease to exist forever? Do you reincarnate into another living thing? Are scared to die?

[Forster Keys]

I have no idea.

[Hathradic States]

I really don't want to know.

[Blasveck]

This will ultimately end up as a Religion vs Atheism thread, no offense.

Personally?

I honestly don't know.

[Desocia]

Have you ever thought about it? Are you afraid to die?

[Hathradic States]

Have you ever thought about it? Are you afraid to die?

Yes.

I used to not be. Then I got engaged, have friends who love me now, and people who depend on me. Now, I really like living.

[Cabra West]

Traditionally, you're either put underground or burned. In some traditions you would be left to feed vultures.

Either way, unless your ashes are kept on someone's mantlepiece, you return the nutrients you borrowed during your lifetime back into the circle of eat-and-be-eaten by either feeding plants or animals.
So, while your conscious self does cease to exist, the stuff you're made of will live on.
I quite like how neat this is.

[Meridiani Planum]

What happens after you die? Is there some sort of after life or do you completely cease to exist forever? Do you reincarnate into another living thing? I am sure many of you have divided opinions.

I doubt that "you" survive as the unique "person" that you are. No personal afterlife, period.

At best, the universe carries on with living beings that generate conscious awareness in themselves. I don't believe that "you" reincarnate as another being, because there is no more "you" after death. But conscious awareness as such carries on. If you don't have a soul that is extinguished (and I don't believe in souls), perhaps we are all just fragments of the universe's generation of conscious awareness, and as part of this process, the process continues after we as individuals are no more.

Have you ever thought about it? Are you afraid to die?

Yes, but I am not afraid to die, even if death really is a completely final end, which I think for all practical purposes it is.

[Divair]

Have you ever thought about it? Are you afraid to die?

Yes.

[Nationalist State of Knox]

You die and that's it. No idealistic afterlife nonsense.

[Forster Keys]

Have you ever thought about it? Are you afraid to die?

Sometimes I think about it. It doesn't worry me though.

[Desocia]

Traditionally, you're either put underground or burned. In some traditions you would be left to feed vultures.

Either way, unless your ashes are kept on someone's mantlepiece, you return the nutrients you borrowed during your lifetime back into the circle of eat-and-be-eaten by either feeding plants or animals.
So, while your conscious self does cease to exist, the stuff you're made of will live on.
I quite like how neat this is.

How inspiring

[Zavea]

you stop being able to spam twitter with pictures of cats

[Cabra West]

Have you ever thought about it? Are you afraid to die?

I'm afraid of dying - I'm afraid that it might be a painful and drawn-out process, and like most people I really dislike pain.

I'm not really afraid of what comes after. "Where I am, death is not; where death is, I am not" (Epicurus)

[Conserative Morality]

Nothing. We die. That's it. This is why life is worthwhile.

[Polkopia]

Have you ever thought about it? Are you afraid to die?

I'm not afraid of death itself, but I'm afraid to find out what happens after death.

[Desocia]

Nothing. We die. That's it. This is why life is worthwhile.

That is a good way to go.

[Horizont]

The physical matter you are made of will never be destroyed. There will be at least thousands of atoms from every single person here in the first person to land on an extrasolar planet in the future.

Also, there are about a million molecules of Archimedes' famous bath water in every glass of water you drink.

[Al Meajilia]

I'm not afraid to die, I believe when you die you either go to heaven or hell.

[Imota]

It's not death I'm afraid of. I'm more afraid that I won't be able to do all the things I want to do in life, or that I'll leave the lights on on the day that I finally

[The Grey Wolf]

Have you ever thought about it? Are you afraid to die?

Yes.

I used to not be. Then I got engaged, have friends who love me now, and people who depend on me. Now, I really like living.

I know the feeling. I'm not engaged, and have a very limited number of friends, but I still fear death. Especially back when I believed in oblivion.

[The Grey Wolf]

I believe in a sort of reincarnation, when the subtle mind enters a fertilized egg. I'd like to think that it would have some influence on appearance and gender and all (I really don't want to come back as a woman.) But I doubt it.

[Nationalist State of Knox]

Yes.

I used to not be. Then I got engaged, have friends who love me now, and people who depend on me. Now, I really like living.

I know the feeling. I'm not engaged, and have a very limited number of friends, but I still fear death. Especially back when I believed in oblivion.

Mehrunes Dagon is pretty scary.

[The Grey Wolf]

I know the feeling. I'm not engaged, and have a very limited number of friends, but I still fear death. Especially back when I believed in oblivion.

Mehrunes Dagon is pretty scary.

Is he? I wouldn't know. I worship Yog Sothoth.

[Ainin]

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