I always wonder

[BlazingEvanator]

what does happen after we do die.. I mean do we go to heaven or reincarnate? or what?

[Kodo]

where do we go after our body dies? i wonder this a lot.

[John JJ]

If you have an extra life then you are good, if not not you will respawn out of a hospital and you will lose $200.

But in all seriousness, I don't wonder about this. Who gives a shit? Live your life to the fullest and what ever happens happens. Although I am a Christian so i believe in heaven.

[flint.44]

It is impossible to say, because the only way to find out is to die.

[Kodo]

yes i would love to know what happens, but i suspect that to wonder about death is to miss the point. that's why i try focus on living entirely in the present moment.

[fusion376]

Difficult to say ,i think no one can answer this.

[T Dot]

Heaven or Hell to cut along story short.

[Pablo Escobar Jr.]

Nothing. Just nothing. No eternal sleep, no heaven, no hell, no reincarnation. You body shuts down, you're not any longer concious. I do not know this for a fact ofcourse, but come on.

The concept of heaven is just a little fairytale to keep people cheerfull. It kept people obiedient in the old days, with the promise of a great life, that is, if you lived a life without having commited any sins. Now it usually just helps people overcome the deaths of loved ones (he/she's in a better place now).

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

I'm hoping heaven and hell are fictitious, simply because, if those concepts are true, I'm going to hell.

I take comfort in believing that when we die, we just cease existing mentally. The brain dies, we die - nothing else happens.

[lillb]

i was raised catholic with the idea of heaven and hell always present, however i somewhat agree with pablo, i'm skeptical of religion, seems like it was all just made up to guide/control people and keep them happy

[blaze0785]

The only thing I can say is that when you die it's possible to reincarnate,go to heaven or hell i'm not trying to sound so sure but any of these can be possible or not possible but one thing is possible is god if it wasn't for god we wouldn't be here right now if you die i'm not sure of my self but my best explanation is if you die god will decide where you go and judgement day is suppose to be a day where god decide if you go to hell or heaven.

[rcguy150]

The most logical reason would be that you probably wouldnt even be aware you died. Its hard to explain because the human mind cannot grasp the idea of nothing. Your brain is always working even in sleep, so you cannot actually know what 'nothing' is. Those people who can tell us what actually happens aren't around to tell us.

[mattt]

I agree with pablo 100%, took the words right out of my head. Heaven and hell/god and the devil is just brainwashing at its best to get people to conform.

[Tyler]

So, Pablo, what your saying is, you just shut down and sleep forever?
I had a recent death in the family early november, and he was old, and we knew it was coming, but i saw him just a day before he past, and he was cold, and wasnt talking, or even recognizing us.
And its weird, i have wondered about death since then, and im pretty fucking scared.

[Pablo Escobar Jr.]

No, you don't even sleep for ever. You're as alive and concious as a brick. Ofcourse I do not know this for a fact, but it's quite logical.

The only reason why you are alive at this moment is because your heart is pumping blood, which contains oxygen, to every part of your body, especially your brain needs oxygen. Without oxygen supply to the brain you die, even if your heart is still pumping. I think you can even breath while you're clinically dead and unable to "recover".

edit: I'm not saying that no supply of oxygen to the brain is instant death, though. I know someone who's brother had no oxygen flow to the brain during birth, he's in a wheelchair and has the mental capacity of a 4 year old.

[mattt]

Sbut i saw him just a day before he past, and he was cold, and wasnt talking, or even recognizing us.

Thats what happens when you get old my dear sir. Its a part of life unfortunately. Just where everything starts to shut down.

[Tyler]

I know that.
Im just saying, i saw him two months before that, and he was fine, but cancer got to him apparently.
:(

[mattt]

Yeah cancer aint pleasant. Then again, so is dying id imagine. I wonder if dying naturally is actually painful?
If so, i'd much rather die in my sleep.

[Despirited]

I think about this a lot. I think your body just will become a body, but you will just be a ghost. No Heaven and No hell. You will roam the earth as a ghost.

I'm obviously not a religious person.

[lillb]

this is a question noone can answer, when you're dead you're dead there's no coming back
and if pablo and matt are correct and what they think makes sense there is nothing to know once you die

[Mousey]

i think its just like when you go to sleep.

you fall asleep, are you aware youre asleep, no. are you thinking at all, do you have any knowledge that your alive when youre asleep, no.

thats it, basically you no longer exist.

[DiscoBombs]

I went through of period of depression and took to wondering what could possibly happen after death. I don't believe in any major religion whatsoever (merely devices used to control the masses imo) but I have to say I have very Deist views. I tried to comprehend an end to thought itself, to perception of any form. I couldn't manage it (perhaps because I am alive?), but then I also tried to think of it like "sleep". It occurred to me that it cannot be exactly like sleep either, because naturally you dream when asleep (are dreams glimpses of the afterlife itself, will we get to control it?) and you can wake up.

I believe in some sort of god or creator, but he/she/it merely set the ground rules and everything has continued since without his/her/it's interference (Deism). The weak anthropic principal just doesn't cut it for me on why our universe is the way it is (for example if electrons had a charge just a ten-thousandth of a percent off, chemistry would not exist). I believe that the mind continues after the physical shell has died, maybe as some sort of defense mechanism born out of fear of the inevitable, I cannot say. Reincarnation strikes me as unusual but when dealing with this subject everything is possible.

These are just my beliefs, I cannot prove them and you cannot disprove them, just as you cannot prove yours and I cannot disprove yours either. One thing I'm tired of is people claiming to know either way, whether it be some fire and brimstone preacher claiming to have seen THE FIRES OF HELL ITSELF UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE LAWD!, or some loudmouth atheist barely out of his teens that claims to know for a fact that nothing occurs after death. As Kodo and others have said, it shouldn't really matter much, live for the damn moment and enjoy the one true miracle that is the complex dance of chemicals we call life.

As a note, near-death experiences fascinate me, and if I were to ever experience one I would consider myself very fortunate in more ways than one.

[devil chevelle]

ill tell u what happens, you meet me.

[Sam B.]

ill tell u what happens, you meet me.
Ah, I see what you did there

I agree with mousey, I think what the afterlife or heaven or wherever people go when they die is all in your mind, and what most people define heaven as is just a place thats perfect for you, where do we find things perfect? our dreams. I'm sure not anyone can say life is perfect and it be true. People define hell as everything as bad as it can be, where do we experience these types of things? nightmares. All of this can all relate to the mind, sure if someone made up religion it surely came from someones mind. This is only my opinion though

[The Alvinator]

What about people that have clinically died for a certain amount of time and then came back to life? Perhaps they could give us some insight?

[DiscoBombs]

What about people that have clinically died for a certain amount of time and then came back to life? Perhaps they could give us some insight?
Just watched a show on National Geographic about that last night, oddly. The one guy said that "I won't go into detail but death is a beautiful thing and is not to be feared." He was clinically dead for over 2 hours, hypothermic, the cold is what saved his brain.

[baleent]

I have a few theories.

Supposedly, the human brain is still active for a bit of time after death. The mind is capable of many things, one being distortion of time. Now, if you go through your entire life as a Christian, you're going to be expecting heaven or hell, depending on how you lived your life. Perhaps in that time frame that your brain is still active, it puts you in exactly what you were expecting. You've gone your whole life with these ideas and imaginations of heaven/hell and your mind has compiled these into one last thrill ride. The thing is, if your mind can distort time, these 10 seconds of brain activity could possibly seem like an eternity in Hell. And if your brain simply shuts down after this brief last bit of activity, it would practically be eternity, having non-existance come afterwards. This is just an idea.

On another note, some people believe in different planes of existance. The human body is made up of several bodies such as the Mental, Astral, and Etheral. I don't know much about the Mental or Etheral, but the Astral is said to do wonders. Out of Body Experiences are attributed to the movement of your astral body. In fact, if you know anything about astral projection, that's what OOBs pretty much are. Shifting your astral body out of the physical. Those who know how to do this are said to wander the astral plane, which consists of three different place-times. I haven't studied these things in a while, so I'm not sure what the names of each are. I know there is the Here-Now, which is just on the line between the astral and the physical. Sometimes, those projecting can move into the physical and take in information(There were studies done involving one guy projecting and reading pages out of a book a guy was reading on the other side of the world). There's another which is basically your dream world, which you have total and utter control over. The other, I forget. But it's been said that all those afterlife holy places and really any place can be reached. Heaven, Hell, Valhalla, Purgatory, etc.

If you look at it with that bit in mind, it's only the expiration of your physical body, and you now have more control with the Astral, which means you could really subscribe to all your ideas here. You could be a ghost and wander Earth, you could go to heaven and chill for an eternity.

These are just ideas, I'm never fully sure what I believe, though the first is more logical.

[Algonquin]

What is life, What is our fate, is there heaven and hell? do we reincarnate?
-Eric Idle

Honestly, These questions really messed me up when i was a bit younger. I'd sit alone and think about them for hours, stressing my brain almost to the mental breaking point. But i found peace with myself in one thing.

IF i live the way i feel i should, and i go to heaven, it will be great. If i simply die and lose consciousness i wont remember or feel a thing, no despair at leaving people behind. Ignorance as they say is bliss, and non existence is the utmost ignorance.

I figure we should simply live by how we feel is right, and deal with the afterlife or lack thereof when we die.

[JC]

If I got stressed, id just take a joint and chill.

[Algonquin]

Sadly that's the way far to many people look at life's problems, just throw drugs or alcohol at it.

[baleent]

/me throws alcohol and drugs at it

[Zeshil]

We come back as Cats
If you dont like cats then dogs
If you dont like dogs then ducks
If you dont like ducks then you come back as a animal of your choice