What happens after Life?

[Sharp]

Ok, many issues and beliefs pop up regarding afterlife. Some believe you get Reincarnated and some believe you become nothing along with other theories. You could say Religeon has a say in it to some, but people make their minds up on their own opinions. So what is after life and what happens to the human mind after it's life has been completed?

I personally believe the mind becomes non existent anymore, but I have read stories in the past about people being Reincarnated.

Discuss.

[Protest The Hero]

I too believe that once life is done, it's DONE. No more. I do not believe in an afterlife, and I do not believe in reincarnation.

I just strongly feel that there really is nothing after this life, since life has so much to offer already.

Thats what I believe.

[Mari-Ashley]

I think there'll either be nothing (slight chance) or an afterlife of some kind. I don't look forward to be sent to hell, nor heaven.
I definitely don't believe in reincarnation.
And I don't worry about what's going happen after I die anyway, so I don't think about it much in general.

[squeakyreaper]

I believe after death, you slip into your mind. A dream world. Just an eternal dream were your consciousness could do what it wanted to you. Probably a 'heaven and hell' thing, if you've led a good life your dream may even be lucid.

[Darkrai]

I think that, after death, there is nothing. Our life is over, and we get our 'eternal rest'. Nothing, absolutely nothing.
Still, I hope I'm wrong. I hate death <<;

[Scary Fan Girl]

I'm not really sure what to expect in the so-called after life. For all that we know, we could turn into a cow, an ant, or anything like that in our next life. However we might just stop living, and go to a place in somewhere to get the so-called eternal peace. I'm pretty open with this issue, trying not to expect something, just because I might get disappointed. Probably because when I really believe in something I believe in it strongly.


Meh, I bet my post didn't make sense. XD

[Cookie Monster]

I really don't know. You hear all kinds of different things from different people.

I myself believe life just ends without anything happening after you die. No way I could tell if I'm right or wrong, it's just what I think happens.

[Sharp]

As we all know, we can't experience death until it actually happens. However I have read stories about people having near deaths. Appranaly from what people have said is that you have flashbacks of your life, some also have stated that they seen themselves as floating spirits. These stories have somewhat confused people with them proving whether it was Reality or just a Dream, but most have stated that it was real.

You could consider these, but they still remain unproven.

[Black Ice]

After my dog dies, this thread pops up. Technically it started before, but still...:(

I don't know what happens. Maybe you get reincarnated as some other organism in the future. Or you just die and nothing happens after that.

[Sharp]

I read a story the other day with makes some sense. Apparantly someone or something was stalking a woman in a house that was believed to have help spirits, to me it is just tricks of the mind. In some cases however people have agreed to the claims.

[Amel]

Truly saying, I'm suprised that so many of you don't believe in life after death. I'm not very religious, but I can't imagine that we'll just die and it will be over. Firstly, I'm a christian and even if I'm not a good christian (? sometimes I wonder whether I'm a good one or not) I still believe in this. There must be something, a prize and a punishment. Secondly, "life has so much to offer already" - yeah, I agree, but if there wasn't something why are we acting like good people and aren't selfish? Friendship is a great thing, but I mean being rude to other people, strangers. We behave in the proper way - why? Only because of stereotypes? Rules? I would do many other things if there wasn't something (I don't mean something really bad, I would just have fun more often, like doing what I want whenever I want or something). We could be more jelaous, more selfish. When I think of it, it's a good thing that prisons exist. I don't say well behaving is something what couldn't exist without faith, but faith makes it stronger for some people. Thirdly, the life would be pointless... You do your best, learn, study, work, and what for? For nothing. It's horrible vision for me. It's hard for me to expres my feelings about it, but future life, even if it's unsure, gives hope. A hope for things being better than they are now. I'm not saying that we shouldn't fight for better life here and now. That's how I think and feel.
Edit --> I have forgotten about one thing (persons, rather). Ghosts. Do you believe in them? I've seen so many photos of ghosts, heard so many EVPs, that I believe in them. Truly saying, I'm interested in paranormal phenomena, such as UFOs, ghosts and others, and maybe I was (and still am) influenced by "The X Files", but I really think that huge amount of this photos is real. Personally, I had only one paranormal experience, it was the next day after Halloween and I saw strange dot of light on the wall. It was spinning faster and faster, and when I had called my mom it disappeared. She was even laughing a little, because I'm not the kind of person who is easy to scared by something or somebody. There wasn't any object, which could do such effect.
My grandmother told me once a story about two brothers. They were really close to each other, so they made a deal: the one who will die sooner will come and tell the other how is it after death. The time passed and the one died. A day, week or something like that (I don't remember) the second died, too. Explanation: his brother came (as ghost) to him, said what he had to say and the living one couldn't live with this knowledge any longer (wanted to be with brother in this wonederful place or God didn't allow him to know this as a still living person - nobody should know what is really after death) or was just too scared to hear that from ghost. Interesting, isn't it?

[Sharp]

I have heard many stories, some being obvious rubbish and some being quite logical. We are not entirely sure whether the brain dies out, we only know for now any information from people who have briefly experienced it. There is no telling however whether they speak the truth.

[Amel]

We are not entirely sure whether the brain dies out

Huh? We are not sure about death of a brain? I don't understand the meaning of this sentence. I would say, that we aren't sure about death of person's soul, right ??

[Sharp]

Huh? We are not sure about death of a brain? I don't understand the meaning of this sentence. I would say, that we aren't sure about death of person's soul, right ?? Yes. Brain or the Soul. Whatever takes your fancy.

From information given by people who have experienced death and actually have been floating in reality leads us to believe whether this is a constant thing.

[Electron]

What is a "soul" anyway? I think a soul is the brain's projection of itself, like an image of the person's physical and inner characteristics. There must be a part of the brain which handles things such as what a person thinks about him- or herself, what they think others think, etc.

Life is simply one long and ineffably complex system of chemical reactions. Which could mean (and I think it does), that our "thinking" is just a series of chemical reactions too. So death, the end of the reaction, when a chemical equilibrium is attained, is simply the return of the chemicals back into the environment to be a part of other reactions (this happens every time you eat chicken, salad, or anything else for that matter).

So what happens after death? Probably the same thing that happened before you were born. Nothing, you just don't exist. However, we'll all know in a way after we die (which is inevitable), which is why I use words like "probably". Even though I've thought about this a lot, I simply cannot ever be sure while I'm alive, although an educated guess would be based on predicting what happens after death using information we all know - what happens before birth: I don't know about you guys, but I don't remember anything, as if it never happened. I know the Catholic church says we all go either to heaven or hell, so believing in that is fine, I guess, but I think everyone should live life as well as possible in THIS LIFE, and not waste life by waiting to "join the kingdom in the skies", because you know this life exists right now... and what happens after death... just let it happen since it will anyway. Live for the sake of living.

Reincarnation doesn't necessarily have to be just rubbish told by people who want to come back after they die. It's a bit more complicated to understand though, I think. Well, I'll put it this way, so that maybe you can understand what I think about it: if you were to die, and then come back as if you never had died in the first place (in someone else's body with their personality), how different would that be from never being born or being born for the first time? Nah, there's no point believing in reincarnation since your "reincarnated" life and this life have no differences -- you couldn't tell them apart anyway. If you don't believe me, ask yourself: if you lived this life for another X years, died (which means losing all memory of what happened during your life), and were reincarnated in a different shell, how could you know you weren't living your first life any more. If no one remembers an event, how did it happen?

[Sharp]

Reincarnation doesn't necessarily have to be just rubbish told by people who want to come back after they die. It's a bit more complicated to understand though, I think. Well, I'll put it this way, so that maybe you can understand what I think about it: if you were to die, and then come back as if you never had died in the first place (in someone else's body with their personality), how different would that be from never being born or being born for the first time? Nah, there's no point believing in reincarnation since your "reincarnated" life and this life have no differences -- you couldn't tell them apart anyway. If you don't believe me, ask yourself: if you lived this life for another X years, died (which means losing all memory of what happened during your life), and were reincarnated in a different shell, how could you know you weren't living your first life any more. If no one remembers an event, how did it happen? I always wonder about that, I suppose we all could have lived before but not remembering it. The past in that sense can't be remembered because of that different mind, and this is something that can't possibly be proven.

[Electron]

I always wonder about that, I suppose we all could have lived before but not remembering it. The past in that sense can't be remembered because of that different mind, and this is something that can't possibly be proven.

I think you're right, so I conclude there is "no point" in reincarnation, it's just an invented thing, and even if it were to exist - without remembering experiences from a past life, what was the point of your exact same mind ("soul" or whatever) living again inside another body? Also, when some people say they're certain that they've done something/been somewhere before, and say it was in a "past life", that's ridiculous in my opinion since for a "memory" of any shape to exist, there has to be at least some amount matter to store it in. Souls - often thought of as some invisible, non-material whisps of smoke... well, I find it extremely difficult to believe in them.

But then again, if a developing child somewhere in the world by some chance developed a brain with the exact same bio-circuits and perhaps grew up under similar circumstances, wouldn't that - in a way - be you?

[Careful With That Axe, Pichu]

What happens after Life?
What happens before life.

I don't believe in any heaven nor in hell.

[King toad]

Well i believe after you die your in a waiting room in a line and at the front of the line your asked what you want to be for your next life eg. A Wolf and then your given a lifetime ticket which means your whatever you choose until you die again and then your back in the waiting room and do it all again
Also when you start a new life you forget everything until your back in the waiting room again

[D'Artas]

I believe that there has to be something, because self-awareness and consciousness is too unique and weird to just end at death. I dunno whether there's an afterlife as such, but there just has to be something.

[SHTR]

I dont believe in an Afterlife, however I do like the idea of Reincarnation.

[Saruki]

Good question. I believe in life after death. Rebirth. I mean, we can't just stay there and see a big black space forever, right?

[Comis Patronus]

I believe there is cause think of this: wouldn't it suck to die and just disappear forever?

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