Exactly that. What does death mean to you? Some people are terrified of it, others happily embrace the idea. What do you think – is there such thing as an “afterlife?”
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Afterlife was an idea I embraced as a child and growing up. It’s a comforting thought until you reach a certain point. Especially with depression, when you just can’t take another second, thinking of eternity in either heaven or hell seems unbelievable.
One thing is for sure, no one will know until it happens.
Logically, it’s not very likely an afterlife exists. I’m pulling for an oblivion that was experienced before birth.
Death is beautiful to me. Once you’re dead you won’t have pain to go through or anything. Cause being alive makes me feel like I’m screaming and no one could hear.
Yes in my opinion there is life after death. But its in spirit form
Like a ghost floating behind a bookcase?
lol
Every attempt at understanding life after death (if that exists) is condemned to failure. Just because we know nothing about it, there is no observable interaction between the “life after death world” and our world.
I think the life is random. There is no meaning, any purpose for existence. That fact itself is so terrifying for average human being, so they have created all these religious theories to justify the existence and give it a meaning. After life is a same kind of man made theory, which make people believe this life has some kind of impact in next life, which gives the meaning to the present existence.
I think the best thing a person can do is to confront and accept the life’s meaningless and act without any hope or sentiment towards life/death/afterlife.
@ClaireDeLune there’s a host of witches and psychics that would disagree with that statement. Then others say the soul is asleep until “The Resurrection” ….which kind of destroys the whole communicating with the afterlife hoax.
I can’t see how any form of consciousness could exist after death of the brain stem. All the near death experiences do not hold any substance since brain death had not occurred.
Like I said, we really will not know until we finally take our last breath.
To me death represents transition. Nothing about death scares me. I do believe in the afterlife and that comforts me. I believe in spirit too.
I hope you know as much as me that these people are ridiculous.
“I can’t see how any form of consciousness could exist after death of the brain stem.”
Like I said, if an afterlife exists we cannot understand it with our common scientific methods.
@ArtNHeaven, you have faith! I used to, but the idea doesn’t add up for me any longer.
@ClairDeLune, have you ever had faith in an afterlife?
Im catholic, so yes. But it’s not like I know for sure I will go to heaven after I die, I have my doubts like everyone else.
To me death is in the wtf category, along with big foot and the question of what color quantum particles are. Who the fuck knows? O.o It means being dead. That’s about as specific as I can go without speculating.
I was raised Catholic until I reached the age of reason. Then I converted to Baptist.
Now I’m a skeptic. Main reason being, I have a mood disorder and I honestly have isolated incidents where I can’t control my thoughts. It conflicts with the free will idea and doesn’t make much sense why a loving God would challenge anyone with such a thing. Other disabilities make more sense to me, but a twist on your ability to make consistent judgement really makes me wonder.
@BipolarAmerican I do have faith! I am in by no means a religious person. I went to school and am infatuated with science, especially Physics. The idea of time travel, quantum physics and mechanics and wormholes excites. Trying to figure out if there is life on other planets is exciting to me.
I have a lot of medium friends and have had some encounters with “apparitions”. Does it prove life after death? Certainly not. But it gives me some kind of hope.
But I never force my beliefs on anyone.
I don’t really believe in Hell. Hell is right here on this Earth…
I always figured hell to be the equivalent of discomfort and suffering experienced through life….just a constant flow of it. Made me want to be good so I could reap the rewards of heaven!
Death is death and It the only way out for me