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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?

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 12 hours ago

Either nothing or everything.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago

I'll be in the same place I was before I was born.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 1 points 6 hours ago

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!

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Wait… you all don’t know?

[–] sntx@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago

The simlutation terminates.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 18 hours ago

Sweet, silent oblivion.

If I'm wrong I'm gonna go full on Karen on whatever jackass is in charge.

[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

I know that the people who love you will miss you.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Your brain stops firing and you're gone. You don't exist anymore. Your body starts to rot.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 50 points 1 day ago

The connections in my brain that made me me will fail and I will cease to exist, same as before I existed.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 22 hours ago

You don't experience anything, not even a sense of 'nothing'.

[–] Whateley@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 15 hours ago

The Ka leaves the body and goes to The Beach.

Its a state equivalent to before you were born. Its feels exactly as it felt back then. That is the nothing.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Nothing. Was in the hospital for a heart attack last year, my heart stopped for 8 seconds. I was 100% completely unaware. Was told later what had happened.

[–] wisely@feddit.org 18 points 1 day ago

Over 4 minutes for me. Can confirm, no concept of time. I slowly became aware of a noise that turned out to be my own breath from chest compressions. Then I became present again.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Some days are more challenging than others, I spent the last two weeks with the flu and WANTED to die. ;)

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 21 hours ago

Fertilizer.

[–] PrimarilyPrimate@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

I think that it is exactly the same as before you were born.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

It's just nothing.

Asking what you experience after death is a nonsensical question, you don't experience anything at all.

What did you see/hear/feel/experience back in 1066 during the Norman Conquest of England?

You weren't there, you weren't alive then, so you didn't experience anything at all.

That same sort of non-experience is what awaits you after death.

Darkness as your eyes close -> Probably some cool shit as your brain functions start shutting down -> literally nothing.

[–] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago

Either of two things:

Nothing. However, I don't think most people quite grasp the meaning of that. Kind of how they think that before the big bang there was just empty space. No, empty space is not nothing. There's no empty space, there's no time, there's nothing. By definition it cannot be experienced. Experience simply ends. It's as if nothing ever happened. The universe could just as well have never existed.

The more optimistic theory is that consciousness is in a way immortal. You can only experience being, not not-being. It's kind of how when you go under general anesthesia and then wake up it's quite unlike sleeping. When you've slept you have the sense of time having passed in between. With general anesthesia this is not the case. One moment you feel sleepy and then you wake up in another room. From your subjective experience you never lost consciousness to begin with. Whose to say that something similar doesn't happen with death. Instead of experience ending it just moves elsewhere. It's a pretty difficult concept to explain but it's somewhat similar to the idea of quantum immortality.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 21 hours ago

There will persumably be a funeral, my remaining family and friends will grieve and divide my up my things, several of which I doubt they will ever really use.

I'll be dead and won't care.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 17 points 1 day ago

You become what you were before you were conceived.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 23 hours ago

From my perspective, the universe – including myself – ceases to exist.

From the perspective of the universe: entropy.

Whatever happens, I just hope it’s graceful and as painless for others as possible.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago

The ~40% of me that are Microbes are going to have a field day.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"What happens when you die" - I assume you mean after you die (not during), and to your consciousness, your awareness rather than your body.

The same as before you came to be. Not like you fell asleep; you're gone.

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 3 points 23 hours ago

This one's not going to sovngarde.

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I've died. It's a permanent state of unconsciousness. No thoughts. No dreams. No life flashing before your eyes. Just nothing.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you die, your brain dumps dopamine and you enter a euphoric state in the brief moments before you’re technically dead.

Time is relative for every entity, according to the theory of general relativity. I posit that as you die, your personal timeline extends to infinity. The state of euphoria is therefore permanent to you, the experiencer. It’s not heaven, but for you it might feel like it.

Additionally, every neuron fires as your brain gives out, so during that personal eternity your life is "flashing before your eyes". If this reflection on your life fills you with contentment, that is heaven. If it fills you with shame and regret, that is hell.

I get reborn in the world that i helped create ...

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

I have an opinion on this, but it saps all the fun out of the discussion when the question is asked by someone who gets no enjoyment out of their life. I'd rather you get professional mental health than have a bunch of people on the Internet assure you that death will be the end of your suffering.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 1 day ago

My family will be very sad.

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

You're dead

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

Sounds like someone elses problem at that point.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The game will be over, I will remove the VR headset, and continue living my real life. I’m sure in time the memories will fade.

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago

You've lived a long life, but a settlement needs your help! Here, I'll mark it on your map.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] piracysails@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago

Well, I'd better be s dog then!

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Your corpse decomposes.

Nothing is nothing.

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