Death. Do you contemplate it and what happens after it?

[Abertawe]

The concept of it scares the shit outta me and I cannot even begin to imagine how people diagnosed with terminal illness can rationalise and come to terms with it to a point whereby they feel 'ready'. Must be the bravest thing you can ever do is to accept what we know as death.

Does anything happen after it? It can't just be it surely. Easy answer is we dissolve into the earth and that is that. Heaven is a lovely concept and it's easy to see why people take solace in it and you don't necessarily have to be religious to subscribe to the notion of a heaven either. I can't get away from the fact we have no idea how or why we're here other than the big bang and everything beyond that is essentially a mystery. Now I won't pretend I know what I'm on about but the supermassive black thing is kinda scary but mint at the same time. It's now common consensus that contained in the centre of every galaxy is a supermassive black hole. There is thought to the theory of inside every supermassive black hole is another universe, containing 100's of billions of different galaxies each with their own supermassive black holes. Throw into the mix the black hole information paradox, the holographic principle and time it's easy to question what actually is reality and consequentially what is death.

Grim topic I know but it's something that will happen to everyone at some point. Most people first instinct is naturally fear at leaving their loved ones but has anyone contemplated death and reached a conclusion that has an 'after event'? Would be fascinating to read.

 

[JoeJoeJoeJoe]

Frederick emails to say he has four children. He is the proud father of a new baby boy, Joshua, and his daughter, Susan, five, has just started school. And he thinks after death, there is nothing.

 

[Freakyteeth]

Are you hairy, Mary?

 

[Meadow]

Having been raised in a Christian household, I understood that heaven consisted of endless praising of God. A more enlightened me views that as very dull and not for me. My hope is that there's no afterlife and that death is the end.

Personally, I fear dying, not death itself. Here's hoping it's quick.

 

[Stevencc]

A tiny fly crawled behind my monitor screen and died so every time you see me on this forum I'm looking at his corpse and contemplating death and what comes next.

 

[Stevencc]

 

[SALTIRE]

What are the chances of us being born in the first place, then being born human and able to understand our own mortality. Its a cliche, but life is indeed precious and we should enjoy it while we have it. Maybe one day another set of atoms somehow come together to create another sentient lifeform and we'll be reborn somehow, but if death is it, so be it; we won't be around to care anyway if we aren't here or not. My only fear is dying a slow or painful death, or even lingering away frail for years. Either die in my sleep or smothered by a big pair of tits, then that'll do me!

 

[eightiesrobin]

Yes, big heart attack in my sleep will do me. I don't believe at all in any kind of afterlife.

 

[Baz]

I quote David Lister "Yeah, well, everyone dies. You're born, and you die. The bit in
the middle's called life, and that's still to come!"

Not bothered about death, as long as it happens after my kids have grown up. As for what happens after, I pretty much assume nothing, you go underground or you get burned into ashes, can't be more than that surely?

 

[mowgli]

Oblivion is all that awaits us. I wish there was such a thing as ghosts as i have a list of people i'd love to scare the shit out of.

 

[Vanni]

I'm a Christian who doesn't believe in the afterlife. We die and that's it, thankfully.

If there really was such a thing as a heaven and hell, then all the believers would get into heaven as God forgives all our sins, and if everyone made it into heaven then it would be a bit silly no? So one lives his life treating other people like shit but asks for forgiveness just before he dies and voila every sin he's ever committed is wiped out. Right

 

[Christian Slater]

I'm a Christian who doesn't believe in the afterlife. We die and that's it, thankfully.

If there really was such a thing as a heaven and hell, then all the believers would get into heaven as God forgives all our sins, and if everyone made it into heaven then it would be a bit silly no? So one lives his life treating other people like shit but asks for forgiveness just before he dies and voila every sin he's ever committed is wiped out. Right

Good lad.

 

[Stagat]

I like to believe there's more to consciousness than we could possibly know right now.

Like, this body is just a temporary vessel for a consciousness that will move on to something and/or somewhere else once we die. This might mean the human brain is the receiver of our current consciousness rather than the producer of it.

Any next life doesn't have to be on Earth and it doesn't have to be in a physical body as we know it. It doesn't have to be in any form we know about right now and it doesn't have to be in this dimension we're currently in.

The idea of an eternal consciousness that will later manifest in ways we can't possibly know about with our monkey brain makes more sense to me than having one relative nanosecond of a life and then an eternity in heaven or hell afterwards, and is far more appealing than you die and that's it.

So I'm going for that.

 

[Martino Quackavelli]

I like to believe their's more to consciousness than we could possibly know right now.

*there's

 

[Leo]

I sometimes think about it....it's hard to accept that one day...lights out then..................nothing. Every second of your life is gone. At the moment if something happened n the past you can contemplate it....when you die there's, well less than nothing apart from people who knew you. It's a strange feeling, then I have a drink.....while I still can.

 

[JaseTheVillain]

Thing is, take solace in the fact that we are technically immortal. Energy doesn't disappear, so therefore even when dead, the energy that was once a part of you is still around regardless of whether there is an afterlife or not.

 

[SALTIRE]

Aye we could transform our energies and become 'ghosts' on Most Haunted, and throw things at Yvette Fielding.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

I will be made immortal through my art. Even now the signal emanating from my BT Home Hub 4 carries my creations to the stars. Inexorably they march onwards through the vastness of the cosmos, a clarion call to those who dwell in that black infinity, a salutation, a warning, a lament.

 

[claret50]

Having recently, (2 months ago) turned 75 I really don't give a fuck any longer, dying used to be of a concern, but now all my children are fully grown adults with families of their own and doing extremely well - financially & health-wise, I feel very contented and have thoroughly enjoyed life, as for some kind of afterlife........I don't want or need it.

 

[markpvfc]

I just think of death as a nice long sleep, makes me kinda look forward to it sometimes.

 

[JimJams]

...as for some kind of afterlife........I don't want or need it.

Well you're fucking having it and that's that.

 

[claret50]

 

[Bobbin']

Being dead will be just like it was before you was even born, wasn't so bad was it?

 

[JimJams]

Can't remember.

 

[Leo]

Being dead will be just like it was before you was even born, wasn't so bad was it?

who knows....

 

[AFCB_Mark]

Having rejected religion after a childhood in which Christianity was drummed into me, I do not believe in an afterlife or anything. Once I'm gone, it's lights out for me. I'm plant food and that's that.

All that's left of me is what I hopefully managed to accomplish in my lifetime. Perhaps that's raising a family or assisting in some way the next generation, perhaps that's contributing to my community somehow. Hopefully I'm able to do something that allows those who follow to benefit from my life in some small way. And hopefully I manage to have a good few laughs along the way,

I would be more concerned about the process of dying, and how unpleasant that may be depending on the circumstance at the time, than actual death itself.

 

[Stevencc]

A close, wise, friend of mine once summed up this whole crazy journey we call life rather well...

 

[Indian Dan]

Look, there 2 options.

1. There is fuck all, of which we will know nothing

Or

2. There is something so happy days

 

[Indian Dan]

I just think of death as a nice long sleep, makes me kinda look forward to it sometimes.

Not surprised supporting Vale!

 

[Son of Cod]

Look, there 2 options.

1. There is fuck all, of which we will know nothing

Or

2. There is something so happy days

2. Hell orgy where we all eat each other's faces and get raped endlessly by human sized versions of all the insects we've ever killed. Happy days.