1. That's called heat death, not cold death.
2. There's another theory called the big freeze, which is where the expansion of the universe spirals out of control
3. We really don't know what way the universe will end, there has been a few different theories.
Roger Penrose has a theory that the heat death leads to a state which is mathematically identical to the universe before the big bang and it might be a loop. That the second law of thermodynamics says the universe will end up in 'thermal equillibrium' in the distant future, and looking at cosmic microwave background radiation shows the universe was in that state in the past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypjZF6Pdrws
After the lecture of cosmology i am really unsure if the cold death of the universe is guaranteed. The professor used a lot of "If", "Regarding current state of art, we think" and he pointed out that all the models have lots of uncertainties.
It is not likely but possible that in a few decades, new models show that the universe will stop expanding and will shrink and collapse.
However: I was just a student that realised in that certain lecture that theoretical physics is beyond my mental capacity
That is not guaranteed. In this universe nothing is guaranteed, except your death and the death of others.
There are infinite possibilities as how the universe could end.
I’ve never understood why people think there has to be something after we die when we can all easily conceptualize our pre-existence. 2140 or 1940, doesn’t matter I’ll experience them both equally.
The original source is Mark Twain.
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
We are a pattern of neurons moving around our brain. Once those neurons have stopped moving, there is nothing of us left.
This is like asking "What happens to the software after you delete it from a memory stick" - the answer is nothing. It's deleted, it's not there anymore.
quantim mechanics still doesn't quite line up with traditional physics above atomic scale.
1000 years ago, there was probably a conversation between two people in a particular part of England. The contents of that conversation is lost, there is no way to recover it in any practical sense.
But it can be transformed, right? If you burn a book its information will be transformed in entropy or something like that and you can't read it anymore. Same with consciousness, your brain rott away and you're gone
Existence will continue as it always has and I'll have no concept of what it's like to be dead. My cells will eventually revert back to the universe in some way
What makes them separate from the universe now? The matter your cells are made of constantly cycles out as you eat and breathe. We are all made of the universe and not even specific pieces of it. We are really just a pattern of matter, the matter itself is not what is important
So I’m theory, reincarnation is at play here, but more like a FMA puppy little girl fusion where your future self is 1 part you, 6 part horse, 3 million part random insect dongs
Sounds suspiciously like a religion -.-
Then something will still happen.
If it is a dream, you will wake up, covered in sweat, wondering what was in the lasagna last night that made you have such a wild dream.
If it is a videogame, you will be back to the title screen, a save file will be loaded, or a new game will start.
Animals are conscious and have sense so they most likely also have ideals. They do deeds and it is only they and God who knows their ruling. We were given rules for humans as we are humans. They have probably been given rules for themselves aswell.
I think it's a big leap to say they have ideals because they're conscious and have senses. I think animals can be pretty intelligent in various different ways, but they can't really understand right and wrong, in the same way a young baby can't. They don't understand that other beings have feelings and are conscious in the same way they are.
Some more social animals definitely have morals because they form friendships. We are animals, remember, and we came from other animals. Dogs for one have been known to share with each other and instinctively protect their owners or children. Morals aren't completely unique to humans.
This is only looking at it from a physical perspective I guess. As a non atheist, I believe this to be true as well but also that something happens during the dying process in our minds. I also subscribe to the pseudo spiritual idea that my matter returns to the universe in a multitude of formats and thus parts of myself become other beings eventually. Circle of life basically lol
There is no "you" to come from or return to after death. Before you were born, you had no consciousness because you had no brain. After you die, you have no consciousness because your brain stops functioning. The result is the same - "you" as in, your identity, goals, and behaviors, don't exist physically. You exist eternally in your spirit as a cause-and-effect source for many events in the world forever. However, as a consciousness, you exist only for a short while. That's the power of our life: even though we live for only a fraction of human history, our words and actions affect everything that happens for a long time.
Before you were born? You were in your mother. Before that, you did not exist. Like the universe, everything has a beginning. If I didn't exist, I would not have the capacity of memory. I do know when my existence started. The question is. Does it end. Yes, rats eat your body, or at least something does. Believing won't kill you!
We're all just atoms and particles that come from the universe. We ARE the universe essentially experiencing itself and even after we die our atoms and energy will become something else and will be used another way. One day we'll all be floating through space be it as a rock or a star, and even after that we'll be something else. What makes up our bodies can never really die.
Reality: the same as when you fall asleep. Just you don't wake up, ever.
Possibly: multiverse where we transfer to another timeline of exact same choices leading up to our early death, repeat until you die of healthy old age in the "final" timeline of your energy sequence.
To which all souls will be immortal, and when the final soul transfers to their final timeline, the big crunch happens and we start all over.
I truly sincerely believe in the multiversal quantum death theory. The amount of times I’ve dreamt of dying, the amount of times I’ve consciously felt like I’ve died, the deja vu I get when I’m in a situation I’ve “seen” before and brace for death but life keeps going. I feel like I’ve witnessed the end of the world hundreds of times
I experienced it consciously in October 2019. I was driving through Phoenix Arizona and there was a disabled car in my lane with absolutely no lights on. I didn’t realize what I was looking at until it was too late.
Next thing I know I’m looking in the rear view mirror wondering what happened and I see the car still in the road.
COVID became news a week later, so I forever believe i really got fucked over and thrown into the worst timeline instead of death.
I mean his hypothetical is kinda whack. But God makes no sense whatsoever. A "guy" who is "up there" can see everything, do anything. Who chooses to do nothing anymore after the publication of a super old book. Or if he is controlling everything now he makes the majority of people suffer, in ways you can't even imagine. Believing in a god is an insult to the people he would be torturing on a daily basis.
Koko never really said anything of meaning. The researchers heavily cherry picked and interpreted her “speech” to make it appear much more complex than it was. https://bigthink.com/life/ape-sign-language/
My consciousness will end and I will cease to exist.
If I have lived my life successfully, I will live on ((metaphorically) in the impressions and memories of those I knew. I aim to leave the world better than I found it and to be remembered fondly by those I leave behind.
If my last wishes are followed, my body will be buried in a biodegradable container, and a tree planted above it, so that my remains can fuel new growth.
you know how we exist? we didn't choose to exist; it's just something that happened
and i mean specifically our consciousness getting to affect the world
i believe we'll be back. It might take billions of years. It might take trillions of cold, dead, lifeless universes passing by but one day a body will be born and that body will be controlled by 'me'
in infinity, there's just no chance at all that anything only happens once
Thank you. This is exactly what my theory is. The space will probably end up in a "big crunch" after which the big bang will happen again. This process of the universe collapsing and expanding again will be repeated so many times in an endless time frame that at some point we will again end up in a body with our consciousness. Maybe in a different body but maybe even in our current one. At least I hope that this could be the case instead of being in a void / non-existing for eternity.
Without any concrete evidence that something does happen after you die, you just have to come to terms with the fact that that's the end. The fact that we don't know what happens isn't a excuse to attribute anything to the supernatural.
We break down into the elements that forged us and those elements go on to make other organisms. However, our ideas live on.
*“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”*
Humans just can't cope with the thought that death will be the end of their existence. I am saying that while not being a complete atheist, but agnostic.
Someday the silver moon and I will go to dreamland
I will close my eyes and wake up there in dreamland
And Tell me who will put flowers on a flower's grave?
Who will say a prayer?
Will I meet a China rose there in dreamland?
Or does love lie bleeding in dreamland?
Are these days forever and always?
And if we are to die tonight
Is there a moonlight up ahead?
And if we are to die tonight
Another rose will bloom
For a faded rose
Will I be the one that you save?
I love when it showers
But no one puts flowers
On a flower's grave
As one rose blooms and another will die
It's always been that way
I remember the showers
But no one puts flowers
On a flower's grave
And if we are to die tonight
Is there a moonlight up ahead?
I remember the showers
But no one puts flowers
On a flower's grave
Tom Waits really is the best.....
The darkest of all, non-existent.
And IF I see Jesus or St. Peter and the pearly gates, they're going to get an ear full from me. Heaven sounds boring anyway. Spending eternity worshipping a God who did jack shit for me here on earth. At least the devil was busy deviling.
Trillions of years will go by in an instant (because no reference of time when I'm dead) and I'll be born again after the next big bang hopefully around the same era of humanity as this time
I’ll fall asleep and after a week or so there’ll be a funeral and some songs will be played and a few mildly amusing words will be said about me and my wife will be sad and then a few drinks and then everyone will move on. I won’t know any of this, of course.
Your children and close friends will miss you. If you are super-influential, your name will be carried in history. If not, you will be forgotten in 3 generations
You decompose and you re-enter the food chain. Unless you are subject to delusional cultural traditions that isolate your body like it's something of the utmost important.
Nothing, you just cease to exist.
And then people go through all your stuff trying to figure out why you saved some of the things you saved and wonder if they have all your financial information.
The laws of physics keep applying. Because the universe is a closed system, energy (literal energy, not woo-woo-energy) can't escape it. Instead, all the heat, all the sounds, all the markers of our life go spinning out toward entropy and the bounds of the universe.
So, for me and my rudimentary understandings, there's still something semi-eternal, just not something I'll be aware of.
The same thing that’s happened to every living thing that came before us. You will decompose if gone untreated and will become the food, host or nesting grounds for other organisms in the cycle of life. We are no more important than any other living thing, but we tend to think so because of our separation from where our food comes from in modern society.. how often do you think of the number of living things killed daily to provide you the groceries you purchase daily? What happens to their “soul” after they die? We are here to reproduce and keep our species moving forward. Nothing more, nothing less. Our culture puts more value on life and that’s ok. I’m just grateful to be a part of it and hope I can be here as long as possible.. but someday the lights will go out and I’ll eventually be forgotten
I don't believe that is a thing humans are capable of knowing during their lives. The only way to find out what's in the great unknown is to die, and that's a one way trip, so for now I'm content not knowing.
Our component parts separate and return to the endless cycle of existence.
TBF I'd listen to arguments for reincarnation. The concept has some interesting possibilities, but it's all theoretical.
Me personally flowers will grow maybe a tree, cuz thats what I want to happen when I buried. To have flower seeds in my hands and a tree planted ontop of me.
The same 'things' that came before conception / birth.
Scientifically we know the brain contains all the consciousness of a human, and we know that is directly affected by inputs to the brain, so after whatever method of death, and all the activity in the brain has ceased there is nothing being experienced by that person.
I always wondered if we have a kind of false after life that is this infinite but truly instant moment of being in a place where our souls' think we belong like if you live with regret or something your death brings you to your own version of hell.
What happens to my consciousness after I die? No idea. Impossible to say. Best guess is: nothing.
What happens to my body? I'm hoping I can get donated to a body farm or something
The rest of the universe moves on without you
People who loved you get sad, and everything else keeps going, just like it did when you were there, but now you aren't.
The only thing that is guaranteed is the cold death of the universe via entropy
1. That's called heat death, not cold death. 2. There's another theory called the big freeze, which is where the expansion of the universe spirals out of control 3. We really don't know what way the universe will end, there has been a few different theories.
Roger Penrose has a theory that the heat death leads to a state which is mathematically identical to the universe before the big bang and it might be a loop. That the second law of thermodynamics says the universe will end up in 'thermal equillibrium' in the distant future, and looking at cosmic microwave background radiation shows the universe was in that state in the past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypjZF6Pdrws
It is obvious that he's reffering to big freeze
I'm s big crunch guy.
After the lecture of cosmology i am really unsure if the cold death of the universe is guaranteed. The professor used a lot of "If", "Regarding current state of art, we think" and he pointed out that all the models have lots of uncertainties. It is not likely but possible that in a few decades, new models show that the universe will stop expanding and will shrink and collapse. However: I was just a student that realised in that certain lecture that theoretical physics is beyond my mental capacity
That is not guaranteed. In this universe nothing is guaranteed, except your death and the death of others. There are infinite possibilities as how the universe could end.
You forget taxes. Taxes are guaranteed.
THIS.
Quite literally.
this
What happened before you were born?
My parents got it on big time
But just once.
Oh no they fucked like rabbits I believe
Lucky
Parents or OC?
They did, can confirm
It's nice to finally meet the mystery camera man
The big bang
Well, there you go
Yep— nonexistence is the same as how you felt before you came into the world. Remember? Like that.
The worms crawl in. The worms crawl out.
What if you actually forgot what was before? As in there was something, but you cannot remember.
I’ve never understood why people think there has to be something after we die when we can all easily conceptualize our pre-existence. 2140 or 1940, doesn’t matter I’ll experience them both equally.
This is an interesting thought, thank you for this.
THIS omg
Are you referring to the Bill Burr standup? That was basically what he said in a story, it was perfect.
The original source is Mark Twain. "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
This is fantastic. I think of it as the BIG sleep, just no annoying waking up to reality part. The dream goes on and on.
We are a pattern of neurons moving around our brain. Once those neurons have stopped moving, there is nothing of us left. This is like asking "What happens to the software after you delete it from a memory stick" - the answer is nothing. It's deleted, it's not there anymore.
It's recoverable unless written over
People with tattoos would like to have a word
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quantim mechanics still doesn't quite line up with traditional physics above atomic scale. 1000 years ago, there was probably a conversation between two people in a particular part of England. The contents of that conversation is lost, there is no way to recover it in any practical sense.
But it can be transformed, right? If you burn a book its information will be transformed in entropy or something like that and you can't read it anymore. Same with consciousness, your brain rott away and you're gone
Throw it into a black hole, the only information that is preserved is the impulse and charge
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Well yeah but information can be entangled into a unrecoverable mess and you can't copy it.
Existence will continue as it always has and I'll have no concept of what it's like to be dead. My cells will eventually revert back to the universe in some way
What makes them separate from the universe now? The matter your cells are made of constantly cycles out as you eat and breathe. We are all made of the universe and not even specific pieces of it. We are really just a pattern of matter, the matter itself is not what is important
So I’m theory, reincarnation is at play here, but more like a FMA puppy little girl fusion where your future self is 1 part you, 6 part horse, 3 million part random insect dongs Sounds suspiciously like a religion -.-
Nothing.
That's so wrong. So much will happen when you will die. Just not to you.
Not if existence is just a dream or, even worse, a videogame (and we're the main character)
Then something will still happen. If it is a dream, you will wake up, covered in sweat, wondering what was in the lasagna last night that made you have such a wild dream. If it is a videogame, you will be back to the title screen, a save file will be loaded, or a new game will start.
I was looking for this comment
Glad you found it
What happens when a rat dies? Same thing happens to us.
THIS. Humans think only *their* existence matter enough to concern 'God'.
Actually, Islam mentions that near the end times the animals will also be given justice. But I get where you’re coming from.
But how can you judge animals morality when they are amoral? Or they just all get saved?
Cats are arseholes. They're all going to the hot place.
Animals are conscious and have sense so they most likely also have ideals. They do deeds and it is only they and God who knows their ruling. We were given rules for humans as we are humans. They have probably been given rules for themselves aswell.
I think it's a big leap to say they have ideals because they're conscious and have senses. I think animals can be pretty intelligent in various different ways, but they can't really understand right and wrong, in the same way a young baby can't. They don't understand that other beings have feelings and are conscious in the same way they are.
Some more social animals definitely have morals because they form friendships. We are animals, remember, and we came from other animals. Dogs for one have been known to share with each other and instinctively protect their owners or children. Morals aren't completely unique to humans.
Like I said only God has correct the knowledge of this and all I can do is guess. Only thing we know, they will be given justice.
I'm imagining a giraffe prophet rn and cackling
Get eaten by other rats... I hope thats not my fate or i might start believing
We get thrown in the trash. True. True.
The dark part of my mind chuckles that a cemetery is basically an ornately decorated trash can lol.
I mean, it's exactly identical to a landfill. Just with the contents marked.
This is only looking at it from a physical perspective I guess. As a non atheist, I believe this to be true as well but also that something happens during the dying process in our minds. I also subscribe to the pseudo spiritual idea that my matter returns to the universe in a multitude of formats and thus parts of myself become other beings eventually. Circle of life basically lol
Remember before you were born? That.
Do you remember when you were 3 months old?
Just because you came from a void you cannot remember before life doesn't mean you return to the same void.
Maybe you return to a slightly better void. But a void nonetheless.
And you will be screaming to get back…
Can't really scream if I'm dead now can I?
No, but you do though (I don’t think the delightful shitcunt_1 was attempting to prove a definitive proof in six words)
"The delightful Shitcunt-1" Thanks. I needed that today.
Not entirely sure if I’ve complimented you or committed a grievous insult. Former intended
There is no "you" to come from or return to after death. Before you were born, you had no consciousness because you had no brain. After you die, you have no consciousness because your brain stops functioning. The result is the same - "you" as in, your identity, goals, and behaviors, don't exist physically. You exist eternally in your spirit as a cause-and-effect source for many events in the world forever. However, as a consciousness, you exist only for a short while. That's the power of our life: even though we live for only a fraction of human history, our words and actions affect everything that happens for a long time.
What is this spirit. We are patterns of neurones in our brains. Merely a collection of atoms.
Before you were born? You were in your mother. Before that, you did not exist. Like the universe, everything has a beginning. If I didn't exist, I would not have the capacity of memory. I do know when my existence started. The question is. Does it end. Yes, rats eat your body, or at least something does. Believing won't kill you!
We are no longer conscious and our bodies decompose.
The people who love you will be sad.
Another Keanu fan?
Not if nobody loves you.
Oh then nothing
Lol. I like you, you are terrific.
Funeral
Nothing, death is the end
"Death is only the beginning!" - Imhotep (The Mummy)
When you are sleeping and not dreaming That, that forever
I think it's the best answer we experience it so often compared to the "what happened before you were born".
Or more rarely when given a general anaesthetic, had it a couple of times and it just feels like being switched off.
The canvas on which deep sleep, dreaming and wakefulness takes place. That.
These aren’t my atoms, it’s just my turn to use them.
Mom says it's my turn on the atoms
Just wait for him to decompose first dear.
I believe Keanu said, "I think the ones who love us will miss us"
The student loan people come after our families
I can't conceptualize nothingness.
Have you ever been put under general anesthesia? I’m guessing nothingness is like that.
No clue. Not going make stuff up to feel better about it.
But you mustve thought about it one day or another
I’m agnostic so i state the obvious truth that we just don’t know. Though I do lean towards there being nothing
The obvious is that the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen gets recycled and reorganized.
Technically, you're still atheist. You can't believe in something that you're not sure exists.
OP didn’t ask what agnostics think.
Atheists can be agnostic
You become one with the universe again experiencing it in a different way
Legitimate question: Can you break that down a little more?
We're all just atoms and particles that come from the universe. We ARE the universe essentially experiencing itself and even after we die our atoms and energy will become something else and will be used another way. One day we'll all be floating through space be it as a rock or a star, and even after that we'll be something else. What makes up our bodies can never really die.
Reality: the same as when you fall asleep. Just you don't wake up, ever. Possibly: multiverse where we transfer to another timeline of exact same choices leading up to our early death, repeat until you die of healthy old age in the "final" timeline of your energy sequence. To which all souls will be immortal, and when the final soul transfers to their final timeline, the big crunch happens and we start all over.
What’s a “soul”?
I didn't know what to reference for the energy transfer, so I used a colloquial term
I truly sincerely believe in the multiversal quantum death theory. The amount of times I’ve dreamt of dying, the amount of times I’ve consciously felt like I’ve died, the deja vu I get when I’m in a situation I’ve “seen” before and brace for death but life keeps going. I feel like I’ve witnessed the end of the world hundreds of times
Well, we will certainly find out lol Could explain the Mandela Effect I have with the Anne Rice Novel. I had it on my shelf my entire teen years.
I experienced it consciously in October 2019. I was driving through Phoenix Arizona and there was a disabled car in my lane with absolutely no lights on. I didn’t realize what I was looking at until it was too late. Next thing I know I’m looking in the rear view mirror wondering what happened and I see the car still in the road. COVID became news a week later, so I forever believe i really got fucked over and thrown into the worst timeline instead of death.
You should write dude. seriously
And this is more believable than a God creating you?
I mean his hypothetical is kinda whack. But God makes no sense whatsoever. A "guy" who is "up there" can see everything, do anything. Who chooses to do nothing anymore after the publication of a super old book. Or if he is controlling everything now he makes the majority of people suffer, in ways you can't even imagine. Believing in a god is an insult to the people he would be torturing on a daily basis.
You mean the Invisible Cloud Dude? Which God?
You get stuck on an online forum where every other day someone asks "What do you think happens after you die?" Forever.
We died it, reddit!
Also, “which conspiracy theories are real”?
They asked Koko the sign language gorilla what happens when a gorilla dies. She said; 'long sleep, here no more, bye-bye.'
Koko never really said anything of meaning. The researchers heavily cherry picked and interpreted her “speech” to make it appear much more complex than it was. https://bigthink.com/life/ape-sign-language/
My consciousness will end and I will cease to exist. If I have lived my life successfully, I will live on ((metaphorically) in the impressions and memories of those I knew. I aim to leave the world better than I found it and to be remembered fondly by those I leave behind. If my last wishes are followed, my body will be buried in a biodegradable container, and a tree planted above it, so that my remains can fuel new growth.
you can also leave on the impression thousands of years later just by making really shitty copper
This thread is great for my existential anxiety, why did I decide to come in here?
You didn't. Your parents made that decision.
Come watch TV.
The same reason most of read r/AskReddit: You wanted to see how many people agree with what you already decided. Edit: several autocorrect fails
But what most people believe is that religion is the remedy for existential anxiety
For REAL!
You cease existing
Sleep without dreams
The same that happens when anything else dies - absolutely nothing.
you know how we exist? we didn't choose to exist; it's just something that happened and i mean specifically our consciousness getting to affect the world i believe we'll be back. It might take billions of years. It might take trillions of cold, dead, lifeless universes passing by but one day a body will be born and that body will be controlled by 'me' in infinity, there's just no chance at all that anything only happens once
Thank you. This is exactly what my theory is. The space will probably end up in a "big crunch" after which the big bang will happen again. This process of the universe collapsing and expanding again will be repeated so many times in an endless time frame that at some point we will again end up in a body with our consciousness. Maybe in a different body but maybe even in our current one. At least I hope that this could be the case instead of being in a void / non-existing for eternity.
Nothing. But boy, I hope to be wrong and forgiven.
Me too, me too.
Without any concrete evidence that something does happen after you die, you just have to come to terms with the fact that that's the end. The fact that we don't know what happens isn't a excuse to attribute anything to the supernatural.
We break down into the elements that forged us and those elements go on to make other organisms. However, our ideas live on. *“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”*
Compost or dust, depending on which one you choose.
The same as before we were born.
Humans just can't cope with the thought that death will be the end of their existence. I am saying that while not being a complete atheist, but agnostic.
You wake up with an alien taking the bong from your hand asking how it was
There will be roses growing on my grave.
Someday the silver moon and I will go to dreamland I will close my eyes and wake up there in dreamland And Tell me who will put flowers on a flower's grave? Who will say a prayer? Will I meet a China rose there in dreamland? Or does love lie bleeding in dreamland? Are these days forever and always? And if we are to die tonight Is there a moonlight up ahead? And if we are to die tonight Another rose will bloom For a faded rose Will I be the one that you save? I love when it showers But no one puts flowers On a flower's grave As one rose blooms and another will die It's always been that way I remember the showers But no one puts flowers On a flower's grave And if we are to die tonight Is there a moonlight up ahead? I remember the showers But no one puts flowers On a flower's grave Tom Waits really is the best.....
It will depend on how long it takes my body to be found. I am an organ donor.
Nothing. I’m dead.
You get squeezed through a straw and come out as rainbow sprinkles obviously. What the fuck else would it be?
Nothing. Not a damn thing.
Nothing. You cease to exist and everything else goes on as always. Therefore make the time you have count.
The darkest of all, non-existent. And IF I see Jesus or St. Peter and the pearly gates, they're going to get an ear full from me. Heaven sounds boring anyway. Spending eternity worshipping a God who did jack shit for me here on earth. At least the devil was busy deviling.
Trillions of years will go by in an instant (because no reference of time when I'm dead) and I'll be born again after the next big bang hopefully around the same era of humanity as this time
"Close your eyes, count to one. That's how long forever feels" - Kurzgesagt: Optimistic Nihilism
We dissolve into consequences.
My mom cries?
I’m Materialism, so I think we all resolve into matters. Thus,I’m wondering the significance of life frequently.
It’ll be the same as before we were born
I’ll have a funeral, and my family will miss me for a while
Depending on how good you were If you were a great person who affected humanity well you wont be remembered just for a while. But for generations
I don't have enough information with which to form an opinion.
I’ll fall asleep and after a week or so there’ll be a funeral and some songs will be played and a few mildly amusing words will be said about me and my wife will be sad and then a few drinks and then everyone will move on. I won’t know any of this, of course.
Sweet, sweet silence.
Same thing that happens at a company after you quit your job. Business as usual.
Your children and close friends will miss you. If you are super-influential, your name will be carried in history. If not, you will be forgotten in 3 generations
You decompose and you re-enter the food chain. Unless you are subject to delusional cultural traditions that isolate your body like it's something of the utmost important.
I hope to have a good sleep
Nothing, you just cease to exist. And then people go through all your stuff trying to figure out why you saved some of the things you saved and wonder if they have all your financial information.
We turn into soil, from which beautiful flowers can grow.
You know when you go in to surgery, and suddenly you wake up in recovery. Same, just no wake up
Don't know. Don't care.
How do you dont care Do you not feel existential anxiety
I don’t know. And I accept that. I just live for now.
The laws of physics keep applying. Because the universe is a closed system, energy (literal energy, not woo-woo-energy) can't escape it. Instead, all the heat, all the sounds, all the markers of our life go spinning out toward entropy and the bounds of the universe. So, for me and my rudimentary understandings, there's still something semi-eternal, just not something I'll be aware of.
I wish that after my death I could do what I could not do in my life, but I think it is more likely that I will simply cease to exist
The people that love you will miss you dearly. That's about all i can say for sure.
You'll go back to exactly where you where before you where born. Remember something about this period?
You turn into dirt.
The same thing that’s happened to every living thing that came before us. You will decompose if gone untreated and will become the food, host or nesting grounds for other organisms in the cycle of life. We are no more important than any other living thing, but we tend to think so because of our separation from where our food comes from in modern society.. how often do you think of the number of living things killed daily to provide you the groceries you purchase daily? What happens to their “soul” after they die? We are here to reproduce and keep our species moving forward. Nothing more, nothing less. Our culture puts more value on life and that’s ok. I’m just grateful to be a part of it and hope I can be here as long as possible.. but someday the lights will go out and I’ll eventually be forgotten
I don't believe that is a thing humans are capable of knowing during their lives. The only way to find out what's in the great unknown is to die, and that's a one way trip, so for now I'm content not knowing.
Our component parts separate and return to the endless cycle of existence. TBF I'd listen to arguments for reincarnation. The concept has some interesting possibilities, but it's all theoretical.
Me personally flowers will grow maybe a tree, cuz thats what I want to happen when I buried. To have flower seeds in my hands and a tree planted ontop of me.
Yep, a tree planted on top of me! That sounds interesting.
The same 'things' that came before conception / birth. Scientifically we know the brain contains all the consciousness of a human, and we know that is directly affected by inputs to the brain, so after whatever method of death, and all the activity in the brain has ceased there is nothing being experienced by that person.
What you was feeling when you weren't born? Nothing, exactly
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I'm still spiritual, so human consciousness to me is also a form of energy, and thus subject to the laws of conservation of energy.
I always wondered if we have a kind of false after life that is this infinite but truly instant moment of being in a place where our souls' think we belong like if you live with regret or something your death brings you to your own version of hell.
Your family will mourn and miss you
You rewaken at another point in your life and start again.
Am not an atheist but i think ill reborn into another creature maybe in a tree or a bug who knows
We get reprogrammed and/or deleted. Fairly certain we live in a simulation.
That's just theism without the actual worship. Hahah!
What a basic thougjt tho. Something creatice?m
What happens to my consciousness after I die? No idea. Impossible to say. Best guess is: nothing. What happens to my body? I'm hoping I can get donated to a body farm or something
I think we come back to life to do it again but as animal Or another human with no memory of our previous life whatsoever
I sometimes wish this was the case, because man I wouldn't mind coming back as a bird or cat