What do you think happens after we die?

[NoisyCricket]

I haven't thought about this much, really. I've always thought of death as a morbid subject, and my life seemed to encounter little of it that would strike a note in me. But now, living with aging grandparents, an elder housekeeper who's been with us for so long possibly leaving, and a dog who's been a pal contracting sickness after sickness -- these things can pile up on you -- especially if you yourself are still adjusting to all the changes in your life.

Does our consciousness survive after our bodies die? Can you wake up one day, and say to yourself, "Ok God, life's been great, but I think I want to die now..."?

Do you think it would be something like turning off your computer after 5 hours of continuous surfing? Leaving a movie theater after the movie ends? Of course in these examples, there's always a morning after.

But what happens to us when we die?

[:Þ]

dead. That's the end.

[adlaw]

you just rot. it is THE end. ;)

[[L]es]

i dunno, and i'm not ready to find that out yet.

[FarOutFreak]

It's just "wait and see" for me.

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[Momon]

We wake up and realize that it was just a dream...

[PauTOT]

for me, death is anything but the end, it's very hard for me to believe that we were created only to disappear again after a brief period of time.

I guess i'm more inclined to believe in the afterlife or even reincarnation.

[PePe_LePew]

Either you rot in your grave, or leave a stinky mess. :)

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[NoisyCricket]

Originally posted by Momon:
We wake up and realize that it was just a dream...

hahaha! good one, man. that's freaky.

[Glock]

Fine here's what happens...
You find yourself in an apparently translucent body. You seem to be smoothly ascending, you look down and see a surgeon violently beating your chest as his aides try to restrain him. "he's gone doc." you hear one of them say. Suddenly, you feel an eerie, fatherly presence beside you as you keep on ascending, you slowly, hesitantly look to your right partly in-fear of what you might find, and much to your awe you see... Nicholas cage in a black trenchcoat. A feeling of tranquility and serenity engulfs you as you and nick travel into a Tunnel. Nick reaches into the inner pocket of his trenchcoat and hands you a viewmaster, you peek into the two little holes of the viewmaster and see a recap of your life...The tunnel ends infront of a huge door with a sign above it in which the word "Heaven" is written in Copperplate-Gothic text to add to the effect. Nick motions you to a counter near the door, behind it is a bearded old man whom you assume to be Saint Peter, he asks you your name and looks it up in a dusty old book. He smiles as he motions you towards the big doors, they're opening!..they're opening! visions of your dead relatives calling and welcoming you in intrude your thought, the feeling's so overwhelming, so serene, so calm, so happy, then suddenly......... I burst your bubble. http://www.pinoyexchange.com/lol.gif

Wouldn't it be nice if after we die, we go to such a place? Heaven as you call it. Sadly however, heaven is just a mythical place, mythical as hell is, which is basically used to prod people into succumbing to the will of the church.

I'd love to think that death would be THAT rosy. But let's face it, we're mere mortals, there's no evidence whatsoever of a "soul" that'll continue on after our physical bodies "die". Our body's all we REALLY have, and sadly when we die, [when our physical body dies]We undergo a long, tedious, ceremonial death. You're dressed up in a tux by the mortician, who at the same time gives you an awful hair and makeup Job. Then you're placed in a nice little casket, you're cried upon in your funeral, then you're burried six feet underground. After several months decay sets in, and that's after the ants,worms, and other scavengers eat most of your flesh...How's that for rosy?




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[Glock]

also, as a rejoinder to FaroutFreak's post..."Let's just wait and see."

[nature]

death simply means the separation of your spirit to your body. human composed of three components the body, spirit and soul, when we die our body rot, the spirit will go back to our creator and the soul will be judge.

[colet]

very cliche understanding of what will happen when we die: we will climb a very narrow stairs, there will be this person who would talk to us then decide if he will allow us enter his kingdom. otherwise, he will lead us to the other way.

i've watched what dreams may come and somehow i got the picture on what will happen to us in our second life, our life not here on earth anymore. i think that answers my doubts.

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[MJ]

we decompose? :D

well, i can't tell. i haven't been there...

[NoisyCricket]

You know, when I look back, I'm only 25, but it seems like I've been around for much longer than that.. It reminds me of what Harrison Ford used to say, "It's not the years, kid.. It's the mileage.."

Think about how our parents and gramps must feel.. sheesh..

Have this feeling that I should have either been born a century ago, or I actually exist in the future (some religions hold that every moment of time exists all together at the same time, so technically, there is no past, present, and future -- they all happen simultaneously.. but since we travel forward in time naturally, then we don't notice.. eh?)

Like when you walk out of a movie house and you see a building, your mind stops for a while and says, "Say.. this wasn't here before.. it used to be all... swamps.." or "I know that's what people call it.. "building".. but somehow.. it looks.. out of place.."

oh well. hehehe. Just some philosophical hullaballooo

*The Mystical Cricket* has spoken...

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[NoisyCricket]

Originally posted by Noisy Cricket:
You know, when I look back, I'm only 25, but it seems like I've been around for much longer than that.. It reminds me of what Harrison Ford used to say, "It's not the years, kid.. It's the mileage.."

Have this feeling that I should have either been born a century ago, or actually exist in the future (but to the futurists, their present is our future.. and so..)

Like when you walk out of a movie house and you see a building, your mind stops for a while and says, "Say.. this wasn't here before.. it used to be all... swamps.." or "I know that's what people call it.. "building".. but somehow.. it looks.. out of place.."

oh well. hehehe. Just some philosophical hullaballooo

*The Mystical Cricket* has spoken...

[Icebox101]

death isnt the end ... but a beginning of a new life ... in short, when we die we live again. I dunno kung tao ka pa o ipis na pagbalik mo. http://www.pinoyexchange.com/lol.gif

[kirei041179]

Originally posted by :Þ:
dead. That's the end.

i tot dat is just d beginning?!

[robx27]

That's one of the biggest questions that we need to answer. I think death is not the end but the beginning of something else. But we can't really tell what is going to happen. But for now, I'm not ready to find what's out there.