Half of the time I look forward to my death, it doesn’t scare me since I don’t see the real point of my life, what scares me is if my agony would be slow and painful.
But then what? I just stop existing and it’s like I fell asleep? Do I see light? Darkness? Nothing? What is nothing?
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.
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
Either nothing or everything.
Wait… you all don’t know?
Your brain stops firing and you’re gone. You don’t exist anymore. Your body starts to rot.
The simlutation terminates.
I’ll be in the same place I was before I was born.
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.
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.
There is no darkness, there isn’t even nothing, because there’s no you to experience it.
It’s such a weird concept to get our heads around but this is it, and I personally find it quite comforting. It’s just very hard to explain why!
Sweet, silent oblivion.
If I’m wrong I’m gonna go full on Karen on whatever jackass is in charge.
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.
I know that the people who love you will miss you.
Darkness as your eyes close -> Probably some cool shit as your brain functions start shutting down -> literally nothing.
Okay please don’t make fun of me but:
I think there will be some sort of re-incarnation. Like not religiously, but like as property of science that we still have yet to discover.
Like I do not believe in dieties, and I don’t have any religions, but I think there are some “energy” that makes up “you” and when you die, that “energy” kinda just float around like the many cosmic particles that goes around the universe randomly. Since there’s gravity on Earth, this “energy” likely aren’t gonna go outside of the Earth. So that “energy” will randomly find it’s way into a living being when its bring conceived, very likely somewhere nearby the location of your death.
Like think about it.
Are you really only gonna exist once.
Dead for billions of years --> Alive Now --> Dead for the rest of eternity?
OR
Dead --> Alive --> Dead again --> Alive again --> … (repeating forever)
I mean, you won’t remember anything, its like you are a camera that is recording (aka: experiencing existence), but you lose the SD card (memories) at every re-incarnation.
Okay I know I sound like I’m inventing another religion 😅, but like scientists didn’t even know about atoms and the electron confugurations until like the last few hundred years, who knows… maybe eventually we’ll find the secret “energy” of life 🤷♂️
So TLDR: I believe you get get “re-incarnated” as a random living being near where you died.
(I mean… it’s a great way to deal with death anxiety. So maybe I just re-invented religion again 🙃)
Edit: So I guess, if you are gonna believe my theory, your goal in life should be to pass on as much knowledge you can gather. Write an autobiography, document your entire life. Archive every news story, and media, movie, TV shows, games, anything you enjoyed or anything you think other people should know. Imagine you are attempting to pass this knowledge on to a future re-incarnation of yourself.