Do you believe in life after death?

[MuscleBuff]

If you do, tell us about what you think awaits you after your last post.

And if you don't, how do you cope with knowing you will be worm food soon?

[That_Dude]

Whether you do. Or you don't. You are right

[MuscleBuff]

Whether you do. Or you don't. You are right

Intellectually lazy, meaningless answer.

[Phantom Spunker]

I don't believe in life after death. I enjoy occasionally reading about some of the idealist's perspectives regarding consciousness as fundamental, but even they generally don't go as far as to suggest the continuation of an individual, ego-based consciousness after death.

In truth, I've suffered from existential dread for most of my life. It was crippling for a few years, but even now I am tormented by it. Literally just last night, I awoke suddenly with a racing heartbeat from the realization that I will cease to exist in the near future.

It's brutally gay, but I really just cannot tolerate the thought of eternal nothingness, my consciousness suddenly extinguishing, and the finality of it all. If I could delude myself with religion, I would. I've not lived a risk-averse life, and that surely hasn't helped, but when I'm at home and have too much time on my hands, it's even worse.

[38 returns]

this explains it to me

[obsidian]

If you do, tell us about what you think awaits you after your last post.

And if you don't, how do you cope with knowing you will be worm food soon?

Do you remember anything from before you were born? I don’t. I simply didn’t exist. It’s uncomfortable to think about, but maybe that’s exactly what happens when we die — we just stop existing. And while that’s unsettling to contemplate while we’re still alive, the truth is that once you’re gone, you won’t be there to care. The fear exists only in the living. Arnold has talked about how much he hates the idea of dying; his life is great, and he still wants to accomplish so much.

The universe itself seems built around the idea that everything has a beginning and an end. If nothing ever died, the world would be overcrowded; if nothing new were ever born, life would grow stagnant. Stars burn out or explode. Even black holes eventually evaporate. And the universe may end not with a dramatic collapse, but with a quiet fade — a deep freeze of maximum entropy where all energy is spread so thin that nothing else can happen.

[obsidian]

I don't believe in life after death. I enjoy occasionally reading about some of the idealist's perspectives regarding consciousness as fundamental, but even they generally don't go as far as to suggest the continuation of an individual, ego-based consciousness after death.

In truth, I've suffered from existential dread for most of my life. It was crippling for a few years, but even now I am tormented by it. Literally just last night, I awoke suddenly with a racing heartbeat from the realization that I will cease to exist in the near future.

It's brutally gay, but I really just cannot tolerate the thought eternal nothingness, my consciousness suddenly extinguishing, and the finality of it all. If I could delude myself with religion, I would. I've not lived a risk-averse life, and that surely hasn't helped, but when I'm at home and have too much time on my hands, it's even worse.

Every day you get closer to your death.

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[NaturalWonder83]

I believe in life after death. But I also believe you may need to come back to earth to reset and fix any mistakes or sadness you created. I think you choose your next life . You’ll be able to know the lessons you’ll learn that will help you. You’ll select to endure the pain that you may need to suffer in order to correct any wrongs you committed. And in order to have peace in the next life, you’ll need to resolve things that maybe you didn’t understand and that ended up hurting you in the previous life.

Once you learn from your experiences, you can then advance through different lifetimes.

[honest]

If you live a full life you will be happy one day for it to be over, feeling one self become less each year as we age helps you slowly let go, its exhausting.  Also watching the average human and the human race decline before your eyes gives you a mindset of I don't want to share the planet with these absolute brainless fuckwits gives you another reason to one day welcome the end. I don't want death but I don't fear it either and I don't want to come back and witness it for a second or third time. Im not depressed I have just lived my life to the fullest and will continue too till the day I die.

[Phantom Spunker]

Every day you get closer to your death.

The Times of India is here to give us hope! Not sure if their HQ is in Dubai...

Just survive for another 5 years!!

Humans could be immortal by 2030! How advanced nanobots and  ..

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/125318967.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Haha, I wish I could indulge in Kurzweil's fantasy and find some optimism. You know, I used to enjoy pondering if cryogenic freezing might have some potential for life extension, but I suspect it will always remain a science-fiction given that one's neurons begin irreversibly degrading within minutes of death, and the brain will have already been damaged before freezing. Even if future technology finds a way to repair these damaged cells, it still seems implausible that all synaptic structures would be preserved and a revival would ensure a continuation of 'me' as opposed to a new person or some sort of semi-retarded version.

That aside, I once suffered from a single episode of sleep paralysis, during which I died and found myself entombed in my own body – still conscious and aware of my death, but completely unable to move a muscle. I was sleeping in a hammock outside at the time, and when I finally became fully lucid and mobile, I was stomping around and swearing my head off in a state of distress!

I'd be too scared to do something like cryogenic freezing in case a scenario like that were possible, and my consciousness continued on some base level where electrical activity continues but remains unmeasurable, and I'm stuck there for hundreds of years like fucking Stephen Hawking. I suspect that if I live long enough to get diagnosed with something terminal, I'll just blow my brains out and avoid any potential terrifying transit to non-existence.

[joswift]

the experience after you are dead is exactly the same as the time before you were born

[wes]

Christ I should have been dead 5 - 6 times over at least 30 to 40 years ago...........been living on borrowed time for decades.

That being said,I thank God several times a day and night, to still be here breathing his air,and to have made drastic changes from my former lifestyle.