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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.
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.
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 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.
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."
We go to sleep and never wake up.
Your brain stops and your body rots.
This seems like the extremely obvious answer. Anything else is unlikely.
If quantum immortality is real, things might get really weird the closer to the end you get. The idea is if there is an infinite multiverse and our consciousness experiences one of them, then it could pick the "best" one, by some definition of "best". In which case unlikely things that can keep your life going (and be worth keeping going) are more and more likely to happen as you exhaust the more likely possibilities that would end your life. Could be that each of us ends up immortal in our own universe, not really alone because other people are there but alone in that their consciousnesses aren't likely present (unless your best unlikely future is also theirs).
This should be a movie. Their best future is yours because you are both soulmates.
Either nothingness or I awake somewhere else.
Where else?
Somewhere. The general idea is that you're not aware of any time you don't exist, so if there is a reason why that would happen to me it would be instant to me. Or it's actually nothing. No in between.
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.
Immortality seems like a curse to me.
I would love to be immortal, depending on the rules and the specifics.
but I don't want nazis or fascists or billionaires to be.
The same thing that happened before I was born
I know the ones who love us will miss us.
Same thing that was happening before I was conceived.
Your parents fucking is a weird way to envision the afterlife.
Just you having to watch a HHHHHD full immersion gif of the moments of your father's final strokes as he pumps his cock into your mom.
The only thing more embarrassing than watching my birth video was watching the conception video
I really hope that this is just it. Any form of afterlife I find just infuriating.
I think oblivion sounds nice and peaceful.
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.
Your atoms and energy stop arranging themselves in a way that forms you and become something else for a time.
You do not "become" one with the universe - you already are. 🧘🏻♂️
It's more correct to say that you cease to wear the mask that temporarily differentiated 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.
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.
Do you remember what its like to be asleep? Well, being dead is just the same, but for longer, and probably with fewer dreams.
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.
Depends on whether you get cremated or not. If you're cremated, you turn into ash. Otherwise you most likely turn into dirt.
My consciousness merges with the universal consciousness, which absorbs my memories to learn what it was like to be this particular organism in these particular circumstances. "I" will cease to be, and will become a personal memory of God, for lack of a better word.
Perhaps that process will take some subjective time, and go through interesting phases. Perhaps part of that process is recirculating through multiple vessels before total dissolution.
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 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.
Mom gets sad
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.
