Just the title. Heavens? Hells? Purgatory? Nothing? Become one with the universe? Reincarnation?
Bonus question: If you could design the system of your choice, what would you want?
Same thing that happened before you were born. It’s terrifying but I’m pretty sure it’s just nothing. The human mind is just a production of our little meat computers. No computer no mind.
If it was up to me I’d want to give people some kind of like, system. I’d want something like a personalized heaven, maybe a few ghosts. Another realm beyond this one.
There should be some reason to be good in this world. The system should disincentive being a real piece of shit. Not sure how, not big in eternal punishment even if you really suck.
If I died and God was like “Yeah it’s cool wanna go live another life in the world from your favorite stories?” That’d be tight.
Maybe some real freaky multiverse shit, every time something dies with a soul it gets its own divergent universe. All things being an infinitely spanning tree.
Nothing happens. But if i had the choice, I like the story “the egg”. I also would love to drop into spectator mode and be able to wander the earth and watch humanity flourish. Maybe some very minor ways to help guide humanity would be nice to…
Straight out of an FPS. But I can see the appeal, if your assumption of flourish is founded.
The same thing that happened before I was born
Your brain stops and your body rots.
This seems like the extremely obvious answer. Anything else is unlikely.
Nothing.
Your “perspective,” your view of the world, and all of consciousness, is an illusion maintained by your brain. Death is no different than turning a machine off and disassembling it.
I will say, the human ability to make conscious choices is really something special.
Your “afterlife” is the hole you leave behind. It’s the impact you leave on the world, and how others remember you.
We go to sleep and never wake up.
No more shifts at work, no more rent to pay. Pure bliss.
If I didnt have big plans for my death I’d probably have intentionally ODed on heroin already.
Brain gets no more blood. Neural biochemistry breaks down. Brain dies. You die. That’s it. Except for some incoherent and contradictory texts from bronze-age books or wishful thinking by naive people, there is ZERO scientific evidence that heaven or reincarnation exist. Even Buddha never suggested we would reincarnate, that was an idea added later by some of his followers. The bible is very flimsy on the entire concept of hell and heaven.
Hell was also invented much later by Dante.
no? only his idea of hell, not hell itself
damn, then I’m scared to die, because what does it feel like to stop existing?😰
Do you remember what it was like before you were born?
Its probably exactly that.
It doesn’t feel like anything. You don’t exist anymore, so you can’t feel.
A bit like the situation before your birth.
“incoherent and contradictory”
“flimsy”
sources?
deleted by creator
I know the ones who love us will miss us.
What I think happens: unfortunately, nothing, your consciousness simply ceases, you go back to the state you were in before you existed
What I hope happens: it feels like being asleep for eternity, shifting in and out of dreams and enjoying memories of life
Other ideas I like: becoming one with a universal consciousness, or a system where we’re punished for our sins and then go to paradise, or this life is a dream and you wake up in another reality barely remembering this life
I relinquish control of my atoms, at least to whatever extent I controlled some of them prior to death. And I no longer perceive or think or remember.
If I could reincarnate into anything other than a human on earth, I’m not sure I’d want to retain memories of a past life. I’d hate to poison a new and different life with the baggage of a human lifetime, for better or worse.
Mind uploading or cryonic preservation for possible future revival and treatment is a nice thought, but I would hate for evil billionaires to be able to cheat death, that seems like too big a tradeoff.
Immortality seems like a curse to me.
I would love to be immortal, depending on the rules and the specifics.
but I don’t want nazis or fascists or billionaires to be.
Either nothingness or I awake somewhere else.
Where else?
Somewhere. The general idea is that you’re not aware of any time you don’t exist, so if there is a reason why that would happen to me it would be instant to me. Or it’s actually nothing. No in between.
Depends on whether you get cremated or not. If you’re cremated, you turn into ash. Otherwise you most likely turn into dirt.
I’m good with the Lifestream theory. Not as fantastical as it is depicted in FF7 of course but the basics definitely incorporate most of the least ridiculous theories into something I can believe in. Even physically we do become one with the planet, which in turn is part of the universe. A soul is just your personal sliver of the Lifestream, once you’re done it goes back in and might just come back into another living creature. Until the Planet gets scorched by the sun at which point I don’t have a clue. Either way, all is one and one is all is comforting enough sentiment. No need for imaginary friends or mythical designs, no overseer, just life and its cycle.
I think the situation from Defending Your Life or Eternity seems pretty neat for an afterlife, but realistically I think that the best we can hope for a “heaven” is living on in good memories from those we leave behind.
Being reincarnated into a well-loved house cat would be pretty dope too.
But ultimately I think our consciousness just stops and we return to the same state we didn’t exist in, before we existed.
