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Same thing that happened before you were born. It's terrifying but I'm pretty sure it's just nothing. The human mind is just a production of our little meat computers. No computer no mind.

If it was up to me I'd want to give people some kind of like, system. I'd want something like a personalized heaven, maybe a few ghosts. Another realm beyond this one.

There should be some reason to be good in this world. The system should disincentive being a real piece of shit. Not sure how, not big in eternal punishment even if you really suck.

If I died and God was like "Yeah it's cool wanna go live another life in the world from your favorite stories?" That'd be tight.

Maybe some real freaky multiverse shit, every time something dies with a soul it gets its own divergent universe. All things being an infinitely spanning tree.

Nothing happens. But if i had the choice, I like the story "the egg". I also would love to drop into spectator mode and be able to wander the earth and watch humanity flourish. Maybe some very minor ways to help guide humanity would be nice to...

Same thing that was happening before I was conceived.

The same thing that happened before I was born

Your brain stops and your body rots.

You do not "become" one with the universe - you already are. 🧘🏻‍♂️

Nothing.

Your “perspective,” your view of the world, and all of consciousness, is an illusion maintained by your brain. Death is no different than turning a machine off and disassembling it.

I will say, the human ability to make conscious choices is really something special.

Your “afterlife” is the hole you leave behind. It’s the impact you leave on the world, and how others remember you.

Since I'm not religious, the most logical answer is probably nothing. We simply cease to exist.

Obviously though, I won't know until it happens.

I just hope I get to hug my dog again

We go to sleep and never wake up.

No more shifts at work, no more rent to pay. Pure bliss.

If I didnt have big plans for my death I'd probably have intentionally ODed on heroin already.

We just die and then we're gone. Reincarnation could be a comforting idea while we're alive, but even if it's real, we'll never know.

Brain gets no more blood. Neural biochemistry breaks down. Brain dies. You die. That’s it. Except for some incoherent and contradictory texts from bronze-age books or wishful thinking by naive people, there is ZERO scientific evidence that heaven or reincarnation exist. Even Buddha never suggested we would reincarnate, that was an idea added later by some of his followers. The bible is very flimsy on the entire concept of hell and heaven.

What I think happens: unfortunately, nothing, your consciousness simply ceases, you go back to the state you were in before you existed

What I hope happens: it feels like being asleep for eternity, shifting in and out of dreams and enjoying memories of life

Other ideas I like: becoming one with a universal consciousness, or a system where we're punished for our sins and then go to paradise, or this life is a dream and you wake up in another reality barely remembering this life

I know the ones who love us will miss us.

I don't think there's an afterlife, but I can hope that there is one. Just being a specter and getting to explore the universe until the end of time would be cool. Realistically, it's probably just nothingness, unless somehow our brains are capable of creating an infinite dream for us.

I relinquish control of my atoms, at least to whatever extent I controlled some of them prior to death. And I no longer perceive or think or remember.

If I could reincarnate into anything other than a human on earth, I'm not sure I'd want to retain memories of a past life. I'd hate to poison a new and different life with the baggage of a human lifetime, for better or worse.

Mind uploading or cryonic preservation for possible future revival and treatment is a nice thought, but I would hate for evil billionaires to be able to cheat death, that seems like too big a tradeoff.

Have you ever been knocked out before? Instant time travel into the future. Probably something like that without the ringing sound in your head from whatever hit you. Oh, and also that you never wake up.

I like the idea of reincarnation, but maybe it's my antitheist limited brain, transitioning to a creature with vastly different intelligence or central nervous system seems like the me I am still ceases to exist. Same vibes doesn't even really check out when folks with brain ailments go through massive personality changes and I wouldn't ever expect someone to "maintain their vibe" through that change.

The same thing that happened before I was born.

Either nothingness or I awake somewhere else.

I'm good with the Lifestream theory. Not as fantastical as it is depicted in FF7 of course but the basics definitely incorporate most of the least ridiculous theories into something I can believe in. Even physically we do become one with the planet, which in turn is part of the universe. A soul is just your personal sliver of the Lifestream, once you're done it goes back in and might just come back into another living creature. Until the Planet gets scorched by the sun at which point I don't have a clue. Either way, all is one and one is all is comforting enough sentiment. No need for imaginary friends or mythical designs, no overseer, just life and its cycle.

I think the situation from Defending Your Life or Eternity seems pretty neat for an afterlife, but realistically I think that the best we can hope for a “heaven” is living on in good memories from those we leave behind.

Being reincarnated into a well-loved house cat would be pretty dope too.

But ultimately I think our consciousness just stops and we return to the same state we didn’t exist in, before we existed.

Depends on whether you get cremated or not. If you're cremated, you turn into ash. Otherwise you most likely turn into dirt.

Whatever you are is no longer tethered to physical reality so whatever you think will happen, happens to you.

System of choice? Maybe no death whatsoever. Or that people's spirits continue on and can opt to be ghosts or do whatever but it's so unanimous and known it's like "did you hear Greg died? Well he can't type his report up so you have to type it out for him before he retires. Lucky bastard doesn't have to eat the gross sheet cake we got for him and can retire."

Do you remember what its like to be asleep? Well, being dead is just the same, but for longer, and probably with fewer dreams.

"When?" I think you mean, "If."

Your atoms and energy stop arranging themselves in a way that forms you and become something else for a time.

God welcoming me with open arms and tears in his eyes and I keep ragebaiting him to see what happens

You go back to where your consciousness comes from. Everyone has their own idea of what that means, but I don't think anyone is 100% correct.

Actually, personality I believe that everyone is correct. You can go chill in heaven for a while, do whatever you want, maybe come back to Earth again after a breather.

You know that feeling when you're playing a really intense game or watching a movie, and then it ends? And you just sit there like, damn. That was epic. Then you talk about it with your friends and family, maybe eat lunch, just hang out for a while before deciding what to do next? The comfortable zone after an exciting event but before boredom sets in. Maybe that movie was peak for you and you're done forever, maybe not.

I really hope that this is just it. Any form of afterlife I find just infuriating.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

If I could design a system it would be reincarnation with intact memory.

Worms eat me. Worms poop me out. Worm poop provides nutrient to a few stray wandering plant and tree seeds. They grow. I'm a part of them.

You put down the alien equivalent of the salvia pipe and all your alien friends are there asking how it was