is death really the end?

I've been thinking a lot about what happens after death and... it kind of scares the hell out of me. What if its over after death I mean I like the idea of reincarnation and/or heaven but what if when you die you slip into darkness forever what if when you die you just stop and you rot in the ground. Tell me what you think I don't care if you are religious or an atheist just say what you think because I really want to know.

To me, death is the key to the world of eternity. It just means letting yourself go from this world.

Based on my religion:
When one dies, he is to be stayed in his grave but his grave will become a place based on his deeds until judgement.

I don't think anything ever dies really, I believe it is just letting your body go, since in my belief that we are the soul and our body is the shell.

I wish it were like this:
When we die we get to go to a place where true freedom is and it is beautiful and everything is nothing like earth, it is a place really unique.

I don't know one way or another.

Never talked to someone dead before. Or at least, they never talked back.

When you die it's game over!

Everyone thinks this at some point, and I came to my own conclusion. If we're going to die, and not know what comes after, why worry about it? It's going to be an inevitable reality sooner or later. Only then will people know the truth of what happens after Death. Until then, I say don't worry about it, and live life like you always had. Carpe Diem.

nah i dont think so actually. Must be sth more deep

I believe the concept of death is quite scary for most people. I also believe that after death it's over you're gone. But why would that be so bad? You were none existing before your birth. It probably didn't bother you then why should it after living.

Also instead of focussing on death focus on that you were given an oppertunity to live. Think about all the possible people that could have been born but haven't.Just for being given that you should be thankfull that you get to experience this miracle called life.

It doesn't matter if you have religious beliefs, scientific beliefs, or other, it's impossible to know what death really is, it could be anything for all we know.

Once you're dead you can't be scared so why does it matter?

I would like there to be some form of existence after death but I just don't believe there is. I think that when we die that's it. That is why being able to experience life is so special because we can only experience it once.

I believe death is more than a meaning in "you live once and that's it" kinda concept.

In my belief nothing ever really dies.

Just read the Bible, it explains why we die, what happens when we do and what happens after. All in great detail.
It should be about the same in every translation too.

If you're an atheist, just observe what happens to other animals after they die.... (they rot) XD

Death is a perception of all beings. While heaven was created as an idea that there is a life after death. It all depends on your own personal beliefs, do you believe that death is the end? According to people dyeing there is a life after death, so I would more lean toward their word since they are on their death bed and all. But, it is only your perception.

It is a scary thought to find yourself bury in the ground, not able to move but could still think for all eternity. Isn't it the job of the brain to think so with the brain gone, there no need to think but to accept. That is the negative to find in the end.

I believe in the concept of God, Heaven and Hell but most importantly soul or the idea of consciousnesses since not everything could be explain in science. I am going to say the soul and the mind would left the world to live another world or be administer in the system like living in another life to be re-incarnated but the memory of the life before was forgotten.

If you want to be positive, try to think the concept of dream. When we were sleeping, where did our conscious go while the body sleep. Is it in our imaginary mind or some kind of other world?


.......After reading what I wrote, how in the world did I write somehow religious a bit? My advice is stay positive!!!

I was thinking about the passage of time as we perceive it. When we are a sleep a lot of time can seem to pass by when very little time has so in our last moments what if the last few seconds feel like an eternity and we feel like we never die and depending on how content we are we may be in heaven or hell.

None of those ideas have been proven or predict anything that we can confirm.

*cracks neck* I love issues like this, gives me a change to practice my philosophy chops.

Currently, there is no evidence, empirical or experiential, to conclude that death goes one way or the other, that is, that we continue on in a conscious, aware form, or that we do not. Some people might cite near death experiences, but every time those are tested, they fail.

For instance, near death experience people like to claim that they go around wherever they are and listen in on conversations "they couldn't have known about", or that they see things they "couldn't have seen" but as soon as a variable is placed...it fails. When a number is taped above the bed of the patient who claims to experience such a thing, they're asked to say what this number is. If it's true that you are disembodied and viewing the room in a third person manner...you should be able to read the number without a problem. Yet they can't. They never can.

Not only that, but near death experiences can be replicated via chemicals. There are currently many natural explanations as to people having these things.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/extrasensory-perceptions/out-of-body-experience1.htm

None of this, of course, proves that near death experiences are fake. However to presume they are real in spite of all of this is to presume something the evidence does not support. As James Randi said about Urey Gellar, after demonstrating how he can replicate the illusion of 'bending the spoon with your mind', "He could be bending spoons with his mind, but if he is, he's doing it the hard way."

Now, instead of acting like either option is true in spite of no evidence to claim so, let's see what would be true, IF they were true.

1. Let's examine the idea of an eternal life after death. Consider a moment, if you will, the concept of eternity. This means that no matter how much time passes, it's still going on. The equivalent of trillions upon trillions upon trillions of years could pass...and eternity would still be in its infancy. Trillions upon trillions upon trillions MORE years in equivalent time could pass, and eternity would still not have had even the smallest fraction go by.

I ask you, does that sound...appealing? Is there not a time when one would prefer things to...end? Even if it were the case that one goes to 'heaven' and experiences 'eternal bliss' for eternity, would it not get boring after enough time passes? Wouldn't ANYTHING, no matter how great, be boring after awhile? There would always be a time when one would desire for things to end, where eternal bliss becomes eternal torment.

2. Let's examine the idea that there is no afterlife.

...What's there to complain about? When one dies, one cannot be...angry...in death, one cannot be...tormented...in death, because there's nothing to feel those things. These things don't occur at all, death is simply death. In the meantime, your body, and all the physical matter and energy that made you up...continues to go on, in yet a new form. The energy that made you up will go to feed plants and animals in a cycle, just as you fed on the energy of plants and animals in life, they feed on yours in death.

I personally find that thought to be...poetic. Not frightening.

Christopher Hitchens once said of this concept of an afterlife, "You have my side, which is essentially that life is a party, and that you know someone will eventually tap you on the shoulder and tell you you have to leave. Sure, that's disappointing, but on the other side, you deal with someone tapping you on the shoulder and saying 'Great News. You never get to leave. And the host insists you have a good time.'"

So what would I personally prefer?

I'm a transhumanist. I believe that at some time in the future, humanity's average life extension can be made far greater through the use of technology. How exactly this happens is inconceivable at this time. It's possible we could download all of our consciousnesses up to a massive computer where we can live out our days digitally until we feel like 'logging out for good'. We might be turned into half human half cyborgs that don't age. I don't know, the possibilities are insane, to say the least. But I prefer working towards a real, tangible extension of life, the life we know we have, then hoping for an eternal life...that could very well, and very easily be quite boring.

I would prefer so, living a life once is quite tiresome.

Death is by definition:

1. The end of being alive.
2. A way of dying
3. Somebody’s dying
4. End of something
5. Condition of being dead

So, if we are supposed to stop functioning as definition one states, does that mean the soul is lost? Questions like this can be debated inside and out, but nothing really comes of it? Is the soul immortal as the phrase states, or is it destroyed when the body is? And how does decay play into that? Any of the ways, it’s pretty interesting.


Now here are my thoughts on the matter: Death is not the end. You can keep going to whatever you want to know. Stall death for as long as you can, cheating or otherwise, and when you grow tired of hiding, give up the ghost. (No pun intended.)