To atheist and anyone listening with a honesty and realism what do you think happens to you when you die?

Question

Just for one minute act like you care. Tell me.
Seriously, Not joking do you think your sub-conscious mind survives, does everything just goes dark? Do you believe you just don't exist anymore? (If so how’s that possible)? Do you believe in heaven or hell? Come on what do you think happens to you when you die? Anyone? I really want to know.

Answer 1

No I think its like turning off a light. Like before I was born. Of which I also have no recollection.

Answer 2

Contrary to popular belief, I HAVE thought about this question before MANY times. And while I do care about death(I'm alive, so obviously, I have to care about my own personal end like anyone else), it's more important how one spends their life, rather than where they go when you die.

So here's my clinical, cold, blunt, logical point of view:

When you die, that's it. You're dead. Nothingness. Oblivion. No heaven, no hell, no spirit, no soul. You're a body, an empty shell, and when it dies, that's it. Done. We're all short little farts in the winds of time.

But if you don't like that, then here's what my heart says:

You die, and you exist as a spirit being of energy that's probably little more than your own consciousness. You can choose to remain in that form or be reborn and live life again, especially if you regret something you did in life. If you do choose to be reborn, whatever knowledge of the universe you had before from the previous life, let alone anything you learn about how the world works as a spirit being, will probably be lost. Such is the frailties of the human memory.

It is always your choice. You choose to move on, or you choose to remain. Or choose to fade out altogether. The only judgement is that which you pass upon yourself. We didn't exist before we were conceived and we'll return to nonexistence after we die. Period.

Answer 3

We're animals, just like all the other animals in the world. It's our complex minds that make us want to think we're somehow above the natural laws of the universe.

But we're not. When we die, that's it.

Honestly, what makes more sense:

1. That we are biological entities like all other biological entities in the universe and that our physical being represents all that we are, and that our bodies decompose and nourish new life after we die, or;

2. That some great sky-man created a perfect, eternal happy place for our disembodied spirits to go to when we die; a place without pain or unhappiness or starvation or war, and that if you're bad, you go to a place that was specifically designed to dole out inconceivably horrible torments for all eternity?

Be honest now, and cut hard with Occam's Razor. Which one is more logical?

Answer 4

No one knows. No one can possibly know because despite the claims of the Bible, no one has ever been truely dead and then come back. Claims made about an afterlife are merely speculation and wishful thinking. Anyone who says that "know" what will happen after death is either selling something or trying to control you.

I don't know. I kind of hope there's some sort of existence after death, but I havn't got the slightest clue about what it would be. There's no evidence for it one way or the other.

Answer 5

For me friendship is about emotional support not intellectual agreement or solving 'their' problems. I support my friends whether or not I see things eye to eye with them. If there's one thing I'm a big believer in, it's in people thinking thru their problems and deciding for themselves what works. I can't control others & wouldn't want to if I could. I'll be honest with my friends if I disagree about something but I don't shove that difference down their throats & I always respect the fact it's their lives & they gotta decide how they're gonna live it. I think real friendship is about showing that you love & support that person whether or not you agree on a problem they are facing. It's basically about acceptance and giving people the space to work out it.

Answer 6

I am not an athiest, I believe in a divine being that is responsible for creation, the same one descibed in the Hebrew scriptures. As well as the Greek scriptures and the Jewish bible and the Muslim faith and so on. From my research, I have the belief that when you die, your dead and that's it . . . nothing else, no roaming spirit in heaven, hell, or on Earth. I do believe that at a certain time all of the dead will be judged according to their life on Earth. Those who have pleased their father will recieve the reward of a resurrection to life here on Earth as perfect individuals in a garden similar to Eden, those who have not pleased their father will not recieve any reward, they will remain dead for an eternity. I do not believe in a literal hellish place of torment and I don't believe that mankind was design for life in heaven, although I do accept the fact that there are an 'elect' few that recieve a greater reward.

Answer 7

when you die, you die. you do not exist anymore. i'm not sure why you would need an explanation as to how that is possible. after death we decompose and become fertilizer. no part of your mind survives, no part of you survives at all. heaven and hell and god and the concept of a soul are all myths. your fear of becoming worm food is what leads you to delude yourself into believe in an afterlife. christians are more afraid of death than atheists.

Answer 8

"When you’re dead, you’re dead."

What if you are wrong? What if God, Jesus, the prophets, the Jews, and Christians are right and you are wrong? If there is no afterlife, no Judgment Day, no heaven, and no hell, then God is unjust and each of the above is guilty of being a false witness. It means that Almighty God couldn’t care less about the fact that a man rapes a woman, then cuts her throat and is never brought to justice. If you are right, and there is no ultimate justice, you won’t even have the joy of saying, "I told you so." However, if you are wrong, you will lose your soul and end up eternally damned. You are playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun.

Answer 9

I can honestly state I don't know for an absolute fact what happens.

Since no one has any absolute proof of life after death, I have to accept the idea that nothing happens to us after we die, we are just gone. It's the simplest explanation.

Answer 10

I'm an atheist.
And I believe(if I did care) that as I die, it gets dark. No more pain, or feelings, everything goes numb.
Then it is erased. Your spirit moves on to a new life.