What about the Moment of Death? What happens? What do you believe?

Question

I would appreciate answers by religious people of all kinds and also atheists and agnostics.

Answer 1

I hope a lot of things, most of them having to do with meeting my grandmother and dog again and having all my questions answered by Someone In Charge, but I haven't got the faith to believe them.

I do wonder, though, about biological perceptual eternity. We perceive time differently in different situations, so I have to ponder if it's possible that when we die, we perceive our last moment as lasting eternally. Eternal sleep, eternal pain, eternally feeling the love of those who wish you goodbye, eternally feeling the hate of your murderer.... Just a thought, of course, and probably without merit. It's just been in the back of my head for a while.

Answer 2

I am not a religious person.
I am alive.
So, perhaps I am an amateur answering this question.

Nevertheless, I think I have experienced death, and I am sure all of us have in a similar way experienced several times.
These are those very rare moments in our lives when we are so heavily remorseful that we feel like dropping dead. Our ego gets close enough to zero.

On that basis, I can say that right at the time of death there would be a strange sadness that is different from sorrow, which would linger on like a mood without really affecting in any way. Meanwhile, life would as soon move on to the next task - that is whatever is to be after death, and this move on would bring a new enthusiasm and vigour necessary for the next actions(in a new life?).

Answer 3

I am "Rational Spirituality", a growing belief in an entirely logical explanation of God, life and the Universe, that will in time replace the squabbling religions.

The moment of physical death is when the Soul is released from the body. What happens with the Soul at that point will depend on the Soul's score. Not all Souls are immortal. Immortality needs to be earned. Statistically speaking, most Souls are trial and error, and if you look in the world around you, you will not be susrprised by the statement.

If the topic interests you, click on "Rational Spirituality" on the Dhaxem website, and a new concept of the World will unfold before you.

Answer 4

You die. There is nothing. Just as before being born there is nothing.

While the idea is not too pleasant, it is quite natural. There are many things in nature that exist for a while and then cease to exist. Note here that I mean "exist" in the sense of "existing as a coherent entity". The atoms you're made of will continue to exist for ages, but they will no longer will be assembled in such a way that support your consciousness.

Do not run to the comfort of a religion promising something after death, it is a false hope. Live life as it is: a brief opportunity of existence.

Answer 5

I am often inclined to believe that the idea of an afterlife resulted from someone who was afraid of dying, and someone came along to offer comfort and told that person not to be afraid, and to think of death as a passage to yet another journey, a glorious journey where one can meet with all those that have gone before one... and that started off the whole idea of the afterlife. Sounds nice except that there is not one shred of evidence that supports this notion (I don't believe in the supernatural or superstitions or the Bible). So, that's it... when you die you only "live" in someone's memory.

What really happens when I die...? I cease to exist. I die, perish, and all life functions cease. Unless I am buried, I'm gonna make a big stink about it!

Answer 6

The moment of death is the moment of begining of another journey. Energy is neither created nor destroyed it merely transforms from one form to another. We are a form of energy, we are the form of universe. When the so called death occurs we just transform from this form to another, we may take another shape or we may be shapeless but we remain in one form or the other. We will not be bounded by time or space till the time we take any form of consciousness. Remember time and space is for the creature of consciousness. I believe death would be most beautiful journey towards most beautiful experience

Answer 7

I believe in reincarnation. I believe that your life force leaves your body and is reborn in another person or form after you die. I also have to say that I died and came back. During the time that I was dead, there was nothing. No lights, no music, no angels. But that doesn't mean that there isn't any. Just that it wasn't my time to go and so my life force stayed with my body. I also think that we may never know the truth. Just what we believe.

Answer 8

It is the moment of truth. Your conscience awakens and tells you all the wrong you have done in life. The life Force struggles to go out of the body. Just as a bird long caged finds it difficult to fly out even when the door of the cage is opened so also the life force tries to go out by any of the 9 doors in the body. finally it goes out by one of them.

Answer 9

At the moment of death your soul leaves the body and travels to the other side.

Answer 10

I don't know. I don't think anything happens that you will remember.