Ask Lemmy

You wake up outside the matrix.

im gonna die one day and if there's an afterlife, i'll deal with it then. if there isn't an afterlife, then i won't deal with it because i'll be dead.

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

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.

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

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

You become what you were before you were conceived.

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

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.

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.

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.

My family will be very sad.

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.

What I think or what I hope?

I think it will be just like before I was born. I will become nothing.

I hope that I'm wrong and I will be reunited with my loved ones.

Sounds like someone elses problem at that point.

Nothing.

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

Do you remember what it was like before you were conceived? Like that.

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.

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

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.

You're dead

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

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.

I believe it's very similar to falling asleep, and you may even tap into a dreamlike state of consciousness depending on your circumstances. Eventually, your self awareness stops and fades into nothingness. What you see if anything at all, and what your perception of time is or how self aware of the situation you are will depend a lot on the circumstances of the death and your individual make up, the same way not everyone dreams the same way or even remembers dreaming at all.

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

Fertilizer.

Either nothing or everything.

Sweet, silent oblivion.

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

I'm pretty sure your bodily functions all shut down and then you're incapable of experiencing whatever happens to your cadaver. Some people might be a little sad about it for a while and then the same will happen to them.

Whatever it was like before you were born. You return to that, literally nothing to be afraid of

I think i'll just stop existing at some point. Maybe there'll be some pseudo visual sensations ('light') as I die but other than that I don't expect any kind of 'after life'.

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

I think we shouldn't be scared of death but still try to enjoy our limited lifetime as much as we can. If you feel depressed continously, I can only advise you to seek help. Life shouldn't be like that. If you have friends or family that you trust, tell them how you feel. In case you don't, that's okay. You may reach out to professional organisations or helplines instead. :)

My conscience ends.

If the materialists are right, the atoms I'm made of end up reforming my conscience into another mortal coil as a matter of statistics.

If they're wrong and there's a spirit that's not bound to the material world, I end up living inside another hull that accepts consciousness. Repeatedly. Could be human, alien, or that of an animal.

If that happens, I want to live in a world that respects all consciousness.

"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.

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

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.

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

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.

The simlutation terminates.

Wait… you all don’t know?

Nothing, just like the thing you experienced before you were born.