No.2137
Please don't kill yourself if that's what you're planning.
I don't believe in a life after this one though
No.2138
Asking what to expect is assuming there is anything afterwards. Asking about dying or what happens afterwards, none of us would have experience with.
I agree with Kowalski, don't do anything irrational- please.
Hope you're okay.
No.2139
>>2136>Death is not the opposite of life.Life has no opposite.the opposite of death is birth.Life is eternal.-Eckhart Tolle
You cannot experience nothing.
No.2140
Death is like a black hole for rationality. We can approximate its event horizon but no though can escape from inside of it. There's no point in talking about what's inside since we simply can't comprehend it.
No.2141
Well a lot of particle physicists claim they can disprove any notion of an afterlife, ghosts or God due to entropy and such but ask me to back that position up. Assuming there is a God or higher power, we could be living in a controlled and limited existence at their disposal like fish in a tank or sprites in a video game in which case "physics" only applies to what's inside the cage. What happes to our consciousess after, if anything, is beyond our powers to know.
No.2142
>>2141> but ask me to back that position up^ I mean don't ask me… doh!
No.2144
Nobody here has had any experience dying, but given the parallels I've seen with out-of-body experiences and disassociatives, I've wondered if it could be akin to what ego death is like.
When you think about it, for something to have an effect on the real world, it also must be real enough to interact with it. If that is true, then there can't be anything beyond reality that could have an influence on our world, and because the human body is entirely matter, there is no real boundary between ourselves and the rest of the universe (apart from our ego).
When entropy takes over and brain functionality is lost, could it be that our consciousness stops being limited to our minds and expands into the matter around us?
No.2162
i personally don't think there is an afterlife of some kind, but then again i haven't died yet so it might be a 50/50 if there is anything beyond this life of ours, but its always good to keep hope in such things.
No.2172
Watch the first episode of Altered Carbon.
Make sure you don't die violently, it sucks to wake up like that.
>>2139It's a good quote right until the last word which ruins it. Life isn't eternal and eternal isn't life. Both of those are just things, and their scope ends with that of "thing".
No.2177
I think, therefore I am. With this logic, I am confident that we aren't mindless NPCs in a fish tank who can get deleted with the push of a button. What happens when we die? Man has been pondering this since ages. Those who don't believe in anything are too afraid to die in anything. Those who believe in heaven and hell will life according to the bible. Those who believe in valhalla will eagerly plunge themselves into combat. How people act depends largely on what they believe, and here when we sit on the internet throne and can view all myths and facts from a meta-perspective, why not pick one to believe in?
