What happens when you die?

personally i believe in either some sort of spirit world - kinda like Immortality of the soul would be the best phrase to describe it - or we just get reincarnated, my theory differs from mood to mood but those are my two most consistent theories.
 
There's no one who's been dead on an operating table long enough to have any sort of valid proof of what it's like to actually be dead.

So unless someone physically dies and comes back to life a year later, there aren't any real leads, are there?

And don't pull that "well Jesus did it" bit, because no one in this day and age ever really sat down and had this conversation with him. o_O
 
I can tell you exactly what happens when you die.

First you get really stiff, then you turn funny colours. Then you begin to stink. Usually someone buries you, and you slowly rot and are eaten by various organisms until only your bones are left.
 
After you die, your body returns from where it came. I don't mean that in the religious or spiritual sense, I mean it in the scientific manner. Soon after death your body is recycled. Since we're organic, your flesh begins to decompose. After which your organic material will decompose further by feeding the worms, beetles and such. Or something along those lines, I don't quite recall, I studied biology a long time ago...




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I'm not really into believing that there's such a thing as heaven or hell, or even any kind of afterlife. As much as I'd like to believe that such a thing exists, I really don't see it happening. I'm also not the kind of person to advocate that you'll just rot away six feet under. I suppose I'm kind of in the middle, for a change.
 
I like the idea of a heaven where everything is finally perfect all the time, and you get to be with your loved ones. The problem with this is that you can't please everyone, unless of course everyone created their own heaven and it's unique to each individual. Even that would be complicated though, because if one person wanted another in their heaven, but another didn't... both can't be pleased. I think I believe in reincarnation, although the thought scares me. Looking through someone else's eyes scares me. Everything else in science is a cycle though, and it would make the most sense to be that souls recycle too. We don't know what a soul is really, or what enables life energy... but and endless cycle is the most logical explanation to me.
 
Well, I wish I knew, or perhaps I don't. My opinion is that you feel exactly as you did in 1802, or 1066 or 4000 BC. To be honest, I think I was pretty chilled (ie non-sentient) during those years.
 
Maybe it's the whole Walt Whitman theory. Where you die, you become the grass, then something eats you and you become part of them...

I don't know if that's even right. XD My English teacher was so obsessed with this idea last semester and told us that we should all have seeds or something like that planted above our graves.
 
Lol you can thank my English Professor. He made us read some Walt Witman and a book that was based around it. I forget what's it's called though.
 
Lucifer Morningstar said:
I can tell you exactly what happens when you die.

First you get really stiff, then you turn funny colours. Then you begin to stink. Usually someone buries you, and you slowly rot and are eaten by various organisms until only your bones are left.
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You got it right to a T, except your bones disintergate after a while
 
As an addition (and speaking as an archaeologist) finally, all that is left is a stain in the soil, a remainder of bodily fluids caused by decomposition. God, this is turning into a cheery thread, Happy Easter everyone!!! :)
 
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I was reading once many books about what happens if you die,i dont know if i should believe any of this things.
I just remember what my mum told me about 1 Year bevor she died,she had an (apoplectic) stroke and she were about 2 weeks unconscious,after she told me that she had now fear because she saw a white Light but something dident let her go to that light.
i like since than to believe that she is somewere around here watching over my kids and me.
 
The white light/tunnel is very common. As are greys (in alien abduction scenarios).

My conclusion is that most near death experiences are recalled due to delusion (caused by the trauma of physical and mental stress due to being nearly dead) and media reinforcement.

Come on, White (Colour of purity and good) Tunnel (Representing a journey to the unknown). If there really is a god I really hope he doesn't do such cliches.

But TifaAC, your mum is alive in a way, her genes are in you. I don't think mystical visions need to obscure that fact.

Finally, I really am sorry for your loss.
 
Grimoire Valentine said:
The white light/tunnel is very common. As are greys (in alien abduction scenarios).

My conclusion is that most near death experiences are recalled due to delusion (caused by the trauma of physical and mental stress due to being nearly dead) and media reinforcement.

Come on, White (Colour of purity and good) Tunnel (Representing a journey to the unknown). If there really is a god I really hope he doesn't do such cliches.

But TifaAC, your mum is alive in a way, her genes are in you. I don't think mystical visions need to obscure that fact.

Finally, I really am sorry for your loss.
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Well i never came over it because i dident get the chance to tell her that i loved her more than anything else,but in one you're right i've got her in my genes i look like her and i think like her.
Thanks for your sorry.
 
I'm hoping for a heaven... Y'know, a place where everyone good goes when they die. A place in the clouds, and it to be just like a community, with places, different people, but no school. As much as I like going to school, I'd rather just be in heaven and roam the Clouds.

Another theory I have, is that you continue to roam around the planet as a ghost. No one can see you, feel you, hear you.. But sometimes they can sense you. And you can like, meet up with other ghosts, so you'd not be completely alone.

I also kind of believe that you are just reborn as a different person, with no knowledge about your previous life.

But then again, these are all just theories.
 
Upon death, the body relinquishes its immortal spirit to the heavens. It's there that God passes almighty judgement on your soul. Given his judgement, you'll either be permitted to pass through the pearly white gates, or plunge to the deepest depths of the Underworld for an eternity of torture and suffering.

Haha, nahhhhh...

You probably experience nothing. You merely cease to exist--similar to what a person is prior to their being after the sperm fertilized the egg.

That's my personal belief. Obviously, I'd have no way of knowing for sure.
 
cApN' pArKa said:
Upon death, the body relinquishes its immortal spirit to the heavens. It's there that God passes almighty judgement on your soul. Given his judgement, you'll either be permitted to pass through the pearly white gates, or plunge to the deepest depths of the Underworld for an eternity of torture and suffering.

Haha, nahhhhh...

You probably experience nothing. You merely cease to exist--similar to what a person is prior to their being after the sperm fertilized the egg.

That's my personal belief. Obviously, I'd have no way of knowing for sure.
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I definately agree, I think that there are so many flaws in any religious theory that are ignored by people who believe said theory for one reason: fear. Religion and belief in an afterlife is a reaction to the fear of the unknown. I think if anyone sat down and really thought about it, using reason rather than emotion, they would see how unlikely it is that there is anything after our deaths.

Also, it is almost impossible for the human mind to contemplate itself not existing. Therefore some kind of continued existence is the easiest way for the mind to overcome this problem. I think the sooner someone accepts that there is nothing after death, the sooner they can start to appreciate life as it is, without waiting for something better.
 
After death your body decays. The part that makes you you is gone. I don't believe there is anything else out there like heaven or hell. I believe that once the spark of life has gone out that's it. Finito....gone....nothing. And I do actually find comfort in that.
 
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