Ask Lemmy

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...

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.

Same thing that was happening before I was conceived.

The same thing that happened before I was born

You do not "become" one with the universe - you already are. 🧘🏻‍♂️

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.

We go to sleep and never wake up.

Since I'm not religious, the most logical answer is probably nothing. We simply cease to exist.

Obviously though, I won't know until it happens.

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.

I just hope I get to hug my dog again

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.

Your brain stops and your body rots.

We just die and then we're gone. Reincarnation could be a comforting idea while we're alive, but even if it's real, we'll never know.

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.

Either nothingness or I awake somewhere else.

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

Have you ever been knocked out before? Instant time travel into the future. Probably something like that without the ringing sound in your head from whatever hit you. Oh, and also that you never wake up.

I like the idea of reincarnation, but maybe it's my antitheist limited brain, transitioning to a creature with vastly different intelligence or central nervous system seems like the me I am still ceases to exist. Same vibes doesn't even really check out when folks with brain ailments go through massive personality changes and I wouldn't ever expect someone to "maintain their vibe" through that change.

I don't think there's an afterlife, but I can hope that there is one. Just being a specter and getting to explore the universe until the end of time would be cool. Realistically, it's probably just nothingness, unless somehow our brains are capable of creating an infinite dream for us.

If quantum immortality is real, things might get really weird the closer to the end you get. The idea is if there is an infinite multiverse and our consciousness experiences one of them, then it could pick the "best" one, by some definition of "best". In which case unlikely things that can keep your life going (and be worth keeping going) are more and more likely to happen as you exhaust the more likely possibilities that would end your life. Could be that each of us ends up immortal in our own universe, not really alone because other people are there but alone in that their consciousnesses aren't likely present (unless your best unlikely future is also theirs).

I know the ones who love us will miss us.

Don't know, probably nothing. Whatever happens but with a score screen in the end. Times taken a piss, hours slept, right/wrong ratio when arguing on the Internet.

My consciousness merges with the universal consciousness, which absorbs my memories to learn what it was like to be this particular organism in these particular circumstances. "I" will cease to be, and will become a personal memory of God, for lack of a better word.

Perhaps that process will take some subjective time, and go through interesting phases. Perhaps part of that process is recirculating through multiple vessels before total dissolution.

The same thing that happened before I was born.

Nothing. Its over.

God welcoming me with open arms and tears in his eyes and I keep ragebaiting him to see what happens

You go back to where your consciousness comes from. Everyone has their own idea of what that means, but I don't think anyone is 100% correct.

Actually, personality I believe that everyone is correct. You can go chill in heaven for a while, do whatever you want, maybe come back to Earth again after a breather.

You know that feeling when you're playing a really intense game or watching a movie, and then it ends? And you just sit there like, damn. That was epic. Then you talk about it with your friends and family, maybe eat lunch, just hang out for a while before deciding what to do next? The comfortable zone after an exciting event but before boredom sets in.

I really hope that this is just it. Any form of afterlife I find just infuriating.

Do you remember what its like to be asleep? Well, being dead is just the same, but for longer, and probably with fewer dreams.

Realistically, what's the difference between what happened to you when you were born and what will happen to someone else who is born after you're dead?