Ask Lemmy

What I think or what I hope?

I think it will be just like before I was born. I will become nothing.

I hope that I'm wrong and I will be reunited with my loved ones.

Each breath is slower than before, your mind enters a mist, friends surround you but not you, they are distant

You focus, focus once more, your pupils dilate as you stare into your first born daughter, then onto your grandson, they seem almost frozen, their mouths move to talk yet it's incomprehensible

Their lips slap together at an excruciatingly slow pace, then as a final pang of pain enters around your chest, you feel your time stop

The mist encroaches further.

Nothing, just like the thing you experienced before you were born.

I'll be in the same place I was before I was born.

Either nothing or everything.

The mind is what the brain does .

When the brain stops doing, the mind stops being.

There is no darkness, there isn't even nothing, because there's no you to experience it.

Where do the ripples on a pond go if the water dries up? There are no ripples, because there's no longer a pond for them to be on.

Our soul is weighed against a feather by the holy mother. Not like Mary or whatever, the real all powerful 5th dimension all is one in time and space holy mother.

If our soul tips the scale against one's favor then you are reincarnated... you're reincarnated into tge sane family however the dynamics keeps changing each time you're born. You're sister might be your brother next time and you're a wife in one life then maybe a fatherless uncle in the next. Anyway once we achieve enlightenment, we are given a choice, stop the cycle or keep going

When you die you simply wake up in the nearest universe where you didn’t die.

Death is an objective event. It never happens subjectively.

In everyone else’s experience, you die. Your body becomes a corpse and you are no longer there.

In your own experience, you don’t die. The gun doesn’t fire. The car crash never happens. You somehow walk away from the train derailment. Your cancer clears up.

Death exists for other people, never for the self.

Eventually, you become the only living human. You are eternal.

After millions of years, you accumulate enough power to create new people. You do this so you don’t have to be alone. You are now God.

Wait… you all don’t know?

The simlutation terminates.

I know that the people who love you will miss you.

Sweet, silent oblivion.

If I'm wrong I'm gonna go full on Karen on whatever jackass is in charge.

The connections in my brain that made me me will fail and I will cease to exist, same as before I existed.

I like to think it's this... Kurtzgesagt - The Egg

Here's a link to the original short story https://galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

I don't know what - if anything- comes after. But I do like the Buddhist analogy of death being like a wave falling back into the sea. The wave is gone but the matter and energy that constituted it survives and are eventually repurposed for the formation of another wave. Or a bird, or a tree, or some other part of the natural world.

Your brain stops firing and you're gone. You don't exist anymore. Your body starts to rot.

Nothing. Was in the hospital for a heart attack last year, my heart stopped for 8 seconds. I was 100% completely unaware. Was told later what had happened.

You don't experience anything, not even a sense of 'nothing'.

Darkness as your eyes close -> Probably some cool shit as your brain functions start shutting down -> literally nothing.

Its a state equivalent to before you were born. Its feels exactly as it felt back then. That is the nothing.

Either of two things:

Nothing. However, I don't think most people quite grasp the meaning of that. Kind of how they think that before the big bang there was just empty space. No, empty space is not nothing. There's no empty space, there's no time, there's nothing. By definition it cannot be experienced. Experience simply ends. It's as if nothing ever happened. The universe could just as well have never existed.

The more optimistic theory is that consciousness is in a way immortal. You can only experience being, not not-being. It's kind of how when you go under general anesthesia and then wake up it's quite unlike sleeping. When you've slept you have the sense of time having passed in between. With general anesthesia this is not the case. One moment you feel sleepy and then you wake up in another room. From your subjective experience you never lost consciousness to begin with. Whose to say that something similar doesn't happen with death. Instead of experience ending it just moves elsewhere. It's a pretty difficult concept to explain but it's somewhat similar to the idea of quantum immortality.

It's just nothing.

Asking what you experience after death is a nonsensical question, you don't experience anything at all.

What did you see/hear/feel/experience back in 1066 during the Norman Conquest of England?

You weren't there, you weren't alive then, so you didn't experience anything at all.

That same sort of non-experience is what awaits you after death.

Fertilizer.

I think that it is exactly the same as before you were born.

Nothing.

You become what you were before you were conceived.

The Ka leaves the body and goes to The Beach.

The ~40% of me that are Microbes are going to have a field day.

There will persumably be a funeral, my remaining family and friends will grieve and divide my up my things, several of which I doubt they will ever really use.

I'll be dead and won't care.

From my perspective, the universe – including myself – ceases to exist.

From the perspective of the universe: entropy.

Whatever happens, I just hope it’s graceful and as painless for others as possible.

"What happens when you die" - I assume you mean after you die (not during), and to your consciousness, your awareness rather than your body.

The same as before you came to be. Not like you fell asleep; you're gone.

I've died. It's a permanent state of unconsciousness. No thoughts. No dreams. No life flashing before your eyes. Just nothing.

When you die, your brain dumps dopamine and you enter a euphoric state in the brief moments before you’re technically dead.

Time is relative for every entity, according to the theory of general relativity. I posit that as you die, your personal timeline extends to infinity. The state of euphoria is therefore permanent to you, the experiencer. It’s not heaven, but for you it might feel like it.

This one's not going to sovngarde.

My family will be very sad.

I have an opinion on this, but it saps all the fun out of the discussion when the question is asked by someone who gets no enjoyment out of their life. I'd rather you get professional mental health than have a bunch of people on the Internet assure you that death will be the end of your suffering.

You're dead

Sounds like someone elses problem at that point.

I get reborn in the world that i helped create ...

The game will be over, I will remove the VR headset, and continue living my real life. I’m sure in time the memories will fade.

Do you remember what it was like before you were conceived? Like that.