Discussion What do you think happens after you die?

[Nobody'sHero]

I believe that we are on this planet, interacting with each other to learn lessons. We have all felt that "breakthrough" feeling when you learn a lesson. For example: about love, letting things go, forgiving, understanding where you come from. It's almost like you shed something negative from your soul and you are able to see through fresh eyes. At least in that very moment, the weight of the situation seems to diminish and you feel a relief. I believe that this is how you learn to really live a happy and fulfilling life. I also believe that this is how humans evolve; it is our soul that evolves and everything that happens to us happens so that we can learn as much as we can (if we understand correctly).

When we die I believe that we take all the experiences that our soul learns and unite to a single source where we get to experience what everyone has gone through. I get to understand what my family/friends have gone through dealing with me, I even get to understand and feel what you have all been through. I don't believe in re-incarnation in the sense where this exact soul comes back. I just think we go through a period where we get to feel nothing and everything at the same time, not experiencing being hungry, lonely, or scared, until some of the characteristics of our soul get mixed with characteristics of other souls and then thrown out into the universe again. Rinse and repeat, each iteration's destiny being to learn new lessons.

Not sure how suicide fits into all of this, I think it all just ends... It's like the only way to end it all, forever... I'm kind of scared of that... I guess the question is: what do you think happens when you die and does the act of suicide change what happens?

 

[sspkky]

I believe that we are on this planet, interacting with each other to learn lessons. We have all felt that "breakthrough" feeling when you learn a lesson. For example: about love, letting things go, forgiving, understanding where you come from. It's almost like you shed something negative from your soul and you are able to see through fresh eyes. At least in that very moment, the weight of the situation seems to diminish and you feel a relief. I believe that this is how you learn to really live a happy and fulfilling life. I also believe that this is how humans evolve; it is our soul that evolves and everything that happens to us happens so that we can learn as much as we can (if we understand correctly).

When we die I believe that we take all the experiences that our soul learns and unite to a single source where we get to experience what everyone has gone through. I get to understand what my family/friends have gone through dealing with me, I even get to understand and feel what you have all been through. I don't believe in re-incarnation in the sense where this exact soul comes back. I just think we go through a period where we get to feel nothing and everything at the same time, not experiencing being hungry, lonely, or scared, until some of the characteristics of our soul get mixed with characteristics of other souls and then thrown out into the universe again. Rinse and repeat, each iteration's destiny being to learn new lessons.

Not sure how suicide fits into all of this, I think it all just ends... It's like the only way to end it all, forever... I'm kind of scared of that... I guess the question is: what do you think happens when you die and does the act of suicide change what happens?

I think death it's just like when you sleep and don't dream

 

[DivineSpark]

I think there is something but....I dont want to end up to same place with my tormentors.

 

[divinemistress36]

Well some say we have life reviews when we die. (My friend had a nde and said this happens) So perhaps if one commits suicide their soul may feel guilty if they are shown everything from a higher perspective. I think its up to the soul when its done learning though like fuck this shit

 

[SufferingInDenmark]

what happens when we die? ultimate peace. black screen. peace forever and ever, zero worries

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I don't believe in gods or deities. I don't believe in the concept of "souls". I believe we are all just higher-order mammals who happened to hit the proverbial evolution "jackpot" and developed a more sophisticated level of consciousness. I say more sophisticated consciousness because I believe other animal life has some level of consciousness, also. What brought me to this belief is that some time ago at my sister's house, when she was still alive, my sister and I, along with her boyfriend, were sitting out on the back porch just enjoying the night and the surreal quiet of being out in the country, where they lived. Off in the distance there were faint sounds of "moans" every once in a while. I really didn't think anything of it until my sister's boyfriend asked me if I knew what it was. I told him I had no idea. He proceded to tell me that the moaning sounds were being made by cows that had recently had their calves taken away from them at the dairy. In essence, the cows were crying. To me that seems to give cows, at least, some level of consciousness.

I believe when we die we cease to exist. We go exactly to "where" we were before an egg and sperm got together to create "us", and that is nothingness. We simply are no more. I don't believe there's some infinite number of "souls", sitting on some infinite amount of shelves, in some mythical placed called heaven, that get "thrust into" each new "person", as he/she crosses some magical barrier between the inside of a woman and the "outside" of her that is (this world). Just can't buy it.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

1 second after my brain dies i will cease to exist forever.

"me" is only a story produced by my brain

i'm really cells, chemical reactions , a brain , 86 billion brain cells compose my brain which is what i really am

but some of the problems with this is this me or i can suffer unending constant unbearable pain so bad it's a trillion times worse than can be imagined

nothing is worth the worst kind of suffering

non-existence forever is the only guarantee of never suffering extremely . so to me it's the ultimate bliss.

and i hate just the regular level suffering working all day a job and chores , problems all the time , just to exist under threat of extreme torture. all the while getting old where old age will torture you more . all this for no reason no purpose

 

[SufferingInDenmark]

"me" is only a story produced by my brain

well, you also exist to other people and in their brains and in reality

 

[LonelyMe]

I agree with sspkky. After death, there's eternal blackness basically. Try to think about the time BEFORE you were born. Blackness and nothingness, right? That's exactly what's gonna happen after death (I think).

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

well, you also exist to other people and in their brains and in reality

the only thing that exists to me is what i'm thinking of right now . and i can only think of one thing at a time. the thing i'm thinking of is only a model of reality . what my brain thinks that is or usually what others programmed me to think it is.

if my brain dies i can never think of anything again ever. no brain and then i can never think of anything again so it's as if the whole universe were destroyed forever to me .

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[EvisceratedJester]

I believe that nothing happens after you die. Your entire being is the result of your biology. Your thoughts, feelings, personality, etc all stem from your brain and the ways in which your genetics and environment shape you. Once you die, that is it. I don't believe that we exist for any grand purpose. Instead, I believe that our existence was something that came about by chance and there is no actual meaning to life. You live, you die, and that is it.

 

[DivineSpark]

 

[Nobody'sHero]

I see you are a person of culture

 

[DivineSpark]

I see you are a person of culture

This guy was best preacher out there

 

[Nobody'sHero]

This guy was best preacher out there

"Stop axskin your stupid ass questions, you ignorant slut!"

 

[BeijaFlor]

the only certainty i have, is that i'll never know

i mean, suppose that after we die, we go to X or Y scenario, but... who is to say that X or Y or Z scenario is the "real" one, and not just another layer of illusion?

suppose you retain some form of conciousness and, you speak to "god" or whatever... well, how would you know for sure that that's "god'?

at the back of your mind, the deepest of all truths is the eternal mystery

people feel the need to rationalize it, and thats alright but...

whoever tells you its gona be "this" or "that" and the other, are simply viewing it through their own biased lenses of beliefs and understanding...

 

[DivineSpark]

"Stop axskin your stupid ass questions, you ignorant slut!"

If I am going to hell for laughing at rev x videos, so be it!

 

[EvisceratedJester]

I see you are a person of culture

 

[Nobody'sHero]

If I am going to hell for laughing at rev x videos, so be it!

I think if we were just a little bit more like Rev X we wouldn't be so depressed.
"You mother fuckers telling me what I am/ain't, YOU DON'T KNOW ME! "

 

[RadiantNumber]

I dissapear

 

[AliceTheGoon]

Bums rifle through your pockets looking for money

 

[gothbird]

I don't personally believe in souls or cycles or cosmic lessons. I've tried. But the way I see it, pain doesn't always come with purpose. Sometimes it just is. Not everything that breaks us teaches us. Some things just break.

That said, I get the fear. The idea that suicide might be the only way to fully silence everything—but also might cut you off from something bigger. Something healing. I've had that same thought: what if I don't just end the pain, but end the potential? But I've also had the opposite one: what if this is the lesson, and it's okay to say "enough" before the next round starts?

The truth is, no one knows. Not you. Not me. Not religion. Not science.
And that not-knowing cuts both ways. It's terrifying—but also freeing. It means you get to choose what matters to you right now, in this body, in this moment. Not for a soul. Not for a timeline. For you.

I don't think suicide changes what happens after. I think it changes how people understand what happened before.

Whatever comes next—whether it's light, silence, reunion, or nothing at all—I don't think it punishes people for reaching their limit.
And I don't think anything that truly sees us would.

 

[Nobody'sHero]

I don't personally believe in souls or cycles or cosmic lessons. I've tried. But the way I see it, pain doesn't always come with purpose. Sometimes it just is. Not everything that breaks us teaches us. Some things just break.

That said, I get the fear. The idea that suicide might be the only way to fully silence everything—but also might cut you off from something bigger. Something healing. I've had that same thought: what if I don't just end the pain, but end the potential? But I've also had the opposite one: what if this is the lesson, and it's okay to say "enough" before the next round starts?

The truth is, no one knows. Not you. Not me. Not religion. Not science.
And that not-knowing cuts both ways. It's terrifying—but also freeing. It means you get to choose what matters to you right now, in this body, in this moment. Not for a soul. Not for a timeline. For you.

I don't think suicide changes what happens after. I think it changes how people understand what happened before.

Whatever comes next—whether it's light, silence, reunion, or nothing at all—I don't think it punishes people for reaching their limit.
And I don't think anything that truly sees us would.

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[FuneralCry]

I just believe death to be non-existence, nothing more than an dreamless eternal sleep where this cruel, torturous existence is finally all gone, forgotten and no longer my problem which is all I hope for, I only wish for non-existence. I'd just never wish to suffer in this existence I always saw as the most terrible, tragic mistake, I just wish to be unconscious for all eternity with no more pain, no more suffering, for me non-existence truly is all that's positive and desirable, I'd just never wish to exist rather I just want some peace and I'll only be at peace once I no longer suffer in this existence.

 

[Mocha]

Hopefully nothing

 

[the_etherealmuse]

I believe that we are on this planet, interacting with each other to learn lessons. We have all felt that "breakthrough" feeling when you learn a lesson. For example: about love, letting things go, forgiving, understanding where you come from. It's almost like you shed something negative from your soul and you are able to see through fresh eyes. At least in that very moment, the weight of the situation seems to diminish and you feel a relief. I believe that this is how you learn to really live a happy and fulfilling life. I also believe that this is how humans evolve; it is our soul that evolves and everything that happens to us happens so that we can learn as much as we can (if we understand correctly).

When we die I believe that we take all the experiences that our soul learns and unite to a single source where we get to experience what everyone has gone through. I get to understand what my family/friends have gone through dealing with me, I even get to understand and feel what you have all been through. I don't believe in re-incarnation in the sense where this exact soul comes back. I just think we go through a period where we get to feel nothing and everything at the same time, not experiencing being hungry, lonely, or scared, until some of the characteristics of our soul get mixed with characteristics of other souls and then thrown out into the universe again. Rinse and repeat, each iteration's destiny being to learn new lessons.

Not sure how suicide fits into all of this, I think it all just ends... It's like the only way to end it all, forever... I'm kind of scared of that... I guess the question is: what do you think happens when you die and does the act of suicide change what happens?

Many speculate as to what awaits us beyond the veil of death. Death, that inevitable, inscrutable, imminent fate that everyone shall succumb to eventually. Most adopt religious or spiritual beliefs to make the idea of death more palatable : the concept of an afterlife, heaven and hell, or reincarnation through an eternal, transcendental energy that outlasts our mortal realms, termed by some as the soul, the very essence pervading our existence.

To me, our existence is but the harmonious waltz of our body's functions. When this steady rhythm falters—every vital organ constituting our bodies, primarily the brain and heart, stops functioning—we cease to exist, our consciousness dissipating as these organs start degrading. Your cells unravel, matter is recycled, and energy is preserved.

 

[La ultima salida]

DESPUÉS DE HACER UNA AYAHUASCA, ESTOY SEGURO QUE HAY ALGO, TODOS ESTAMOS CONECTADOS CON EL UNIVERSO.

 

[ToANewWorld]

Probably knowing

 

[flutebloom]

I think it'll be sweet nothingness. Maybe your soul gets cleansed and you get to choose to be reborn or to stay in limbo.

 

[kamyzyak]

I don't really believe in non-existence, or rather that it can be experienced, since you need to exist in some form in order to experience anything. Some people give an example of the state before birth, but the fact of the matter is that there was no "state" for me before birth, I was kind of born and that's it.

It is difficult for me to imagine what will happen after death in this case, if there is only one universe and only once, and at the same time consciousness does not persist in any form after physical death. But what I believe is that either there is some form of posthumous existence of consciousness, or there is a possibility of my rebirth, and since nothing can be experienced in non-existence, including the passage of time, from my perspective it will look like an instantaneous birth immediately after death.

My dream and my best case scenario is that everything is something like a roguelike or rpg with different storylines, and after death, I'll look at my score and statistics, think, like, "Wow, this run really sucks," and then start a new one with lower difficulty.