Okay, let's say, hypothetically speaking, you collapsed right now & died. And you don't go to heaven. Or hell.

Question

Have you ever wondered if, after you die, you go to neither heaven nor hell, but rather, just disappear (almost like a dreamless sleep). I've been thinking about it, and it's made me appreciate life a bit more. What do you think?

Okay well good for you if you don't believe in heaven or hell (no need to come here to just blatantly declare it) but I'm just asking what you think about that kind of an afterlife. Or rather, no after life. And if death is described as sleep (according to the Bible), then why do people see it so differently? And I'm talking about a dreamless sleep here.

Please stop preaching! Heaven and hell cannot be proved, nor can Christianity, nor can any other religion. All I'm asking is what you guys think about an after life with no conscious.

Answer 1

You asked a question that brings out all the wackjobs.

I think about it a lot. The religion I was brought up on tells me one thing, but science tells me another.

Live your life as best you can. You can collapse and die at any time from many different means.

Although people will rant and rave about this, but much of me thinks you die, and you just rot away. That's it.

Make the best of what you do today. Enjoy life. Try not to be miserable. Avoid people who bring you down.

Answer 2

No, Religions can prove there religion with out of a shadow of doubt. That is what faith is and the heaven and hell thing well maybe the heaven that gives us the most peace is the heaven we see after death. So the dreamless sleep is what gives you the greatest amount of peace that is what you want heaven to be then who am I to say that it is not what it is for you. the hell part I believe there is a hell but I cannot make anyone else believe. I know this that energy can not be created or dissipate. It can only be transferred. Everything is energy in it. So what happens to the energy?????

Answer 3

The Bible describes death like sleep.

John 11:11-14
Psalm 13:3
Ecclesiastes 9:5

Don't let churches teach you lies about hell. When a person dies he or she doesn't float to heaven or hell. When a person dies, they are nothing but a dead body, decaying to the point where it becomes dust (Genesis 3:19). In order for anyone to see life again, they have to be resurrected (brought back to life), which God will do in the not too distant future. John 5:28, 29

Many religions teach that a person's soul never dies. Why would God allow a wicked person to live forever? Life is a gift, not a punishment (Romans 6:23). In all actuality, a soul is a person, not some invisible ghost. You are correct to say that thinking death is like sleep helps you to appreciate life more.

Religions teach lies.

Answer 4

If one didn't go to either Heaven or Hell, what about coming back as a non - corporeal entity ( ghost, spirit, shade ), or being reincarnated as another person or life - form, maybe even a computer, a robot, or a vehicle. Many spiritual traditions had one joining with the natural world after death, & Chinese Daoism / Taoism & Japanese Shinto taught the same thing, joining with the " world spirit " ( anima mundi ) if I understand them correctly.

I think even if there was no Heaven or Hell, the soul, psyche, personality, essence, would go someplace, because Nature ( & God ) abhor a vacuum. Not even a total, confirmed, atheist wants to believe that they just STOP existing & fade away after the death of the body like an erased tape or reformatted computer disk.

Answer 5

What's the difference between "dreamless sleep" and non-existence. Your question isn't making a whole lot of sense. Can you elaborate a bit? I mean, if you're just going to make up hypotheticals why not come up with something a bit more consequential? Okay - lets say you are correct and when we die we go into a state of dreamless sleep...then what?

Answer 6

well you'll never wake up again and you'll never know of the previous life you had and honestly I don't think we go to heaven or hell when we die. I think we just die and that is it, we rot in the ground and become food for the maggots and the worms and that's the way it is, so what if that hypothetically happened to me right now? no biggie, it's gonna suck and I hope it doesn't happen for a long time but people of all ages die all the time, so many don't get to experiance any life at all, I am thankful for the time that I have had here as well, I just know I want a lot more experiances to come, anyways best of luck to you

Answer 7

I guess you have to look at it (death) as though it's just another step in life. Realistically, you're dead. You're not going to care what happens after that.

There is a tendency among humans to assume that you retain your individual identity after you die - this in practiacality for the most part flies in the face of logic. When you die, you lose your physical body, which just about removes everything that ever made you an individual human being.

To me, it seems that when you die, you return silently and passively into the force that animated you in the first place. You don't have to worry about meeting your loved ones that came before - truthfully, they were always a part of you, ergo they never left you to begin with.

People often try to describe god to me, and I always object to these descriptions - not because of the idea of a god, but rather because of the anthropomorphic nature of the god they try to describe (i.e., the depiction of god as a human being, with human emotions and weaknesses).

Here's the facts as I understand them: I am mortal, and yet I am currently alive. There is some force that animates me, that makes me more than rocks, dirt, and water.

And that's all I know.

Whatever that force is, I don't pretend to understand it's nature. I do not ascribe it's nature to the things that religion pretends it is. In fact, despite religion's assumption that the nature of god involves jealousy, love, and hate, I do not lend my world view to those beliefs. I can't see human emotion playing a part in the existance of the omnipotent and omniscient.

Hence I find the idea of the omnipotent and the omniscient illogical. Just my opinion, rest assured, but because of that opinion, I can't see that the idea of heaven or hell makes the slightest bit of difference to human life (and conversly, human death). And in the end, I can't imagine that any kind of afterlife should prove appealing to humans. You die. So do I. What else matters?

Answer 8

Since you neither go to heaven or hell.
You just came and passing by and ended up at the graveyard as skeletons of skull and bones on planet earth.
Why not make the best with what ever time left serving the good for mankind on planet earth.
Life is too short to be little on planet earth.
Listen to this beautiful love song and listen to the lyric - How we don't talk anymore - on planet earth.
But communicating with artificial intelligence in playing computer games and miss all the real world out there on planet earth.

Answer 9

A dreamless sleep makes you appreciate life more? You could die next time you cross the street, at best within a century. There are wars, famine, drought, murder, suicide, theft, etc. all around us and this is all we have to live for?
We who place our trust in Jesus Christ live for a much greater cause, and if we are right we receive a most glorious end to life, if we are wrong, we are none the less for it because we are gone just like you.

Answer 10

Well....

I think that a human is just a colection of smaller systems, like a machine. Your brain could also be compaired to a computer with thoughts and ideas being like programs and data.

All the parts of the body and all the ideas in your head are what makes you yourself.

When you die its like the machine that is your body breaking down.
When you die the information in your brain is lost. however you can still leave some information behind by creating something or influincing someone else.

You are only truly dead when evryone has forgoten you so its a good idea to leave something behind.

Write a book or beacome frends with someone.