How could anyone say that there is nothing after death?

Question

How can you be so shallow to say that your existence will finish forever, you must be a very sad person, i mean i truely believe that there is something after death, but some are just so confident that theres nothing, that death is the end of your life, your conciousness, your existence FOREVER! You will never think or breath or be alive in any form again, its sick to think such a thing. Even if you don't, at least try to, no one i know, only the most depressed people with crappy lives think such things.

"i truely believe that there is something after death"

Please post *hard evidence* to support your claim."

That is silly, that is my own personal belief, you want me to provide evidence for my own belief, evidence that i believe it, or evidence it's true? Silly, just like me saying "Show hard evidence to support your claim that you believe in god" ITS YOUR BELIEF - I DONT NEED TO PROVE IT

Answer 1

nothings FOREVER

Answer 2

I do not believe that there is an afterlife because there is no scientific evidence supporting the existence of such a thing. I am not a sad, depressed person, nor do I have a crappy life. I also do not find the thought of eventually ceasing to exist terrifying. I don't want to die, but I accept that someday I will.

I also do not believe that any deities exist, which you also probablly find "sick." However, I do not believe in deities for the same reason I do not believe in an afterlife: no evidence.

I am not claiming that I know for certain what happens after death (if anything at all happens); I am merely stating that I don't believe anything will happen, and that this does not horrify me or depress me as you seem to think it would.

Answer 3

Just like this: "There is nothing after death". There you are, that wasn't hard.
Seriously, why should I waste the limited time I've been granted trying to make amends for sins I haven't yet committed in order to reserve my place at a potentially non-existent table?
As far as I am concerned, I have potentially another fifty years (absolute maximum) to spend with my kids (and subsequent grandchildren, possibly). If I am granted an afterlife then it's a bonus. And no, I am not sad. On the contrary, I am VERY happy.

NB: Having read your additional comment, why should I have to justify my beliefs? Where is your hard evidence?

Answer 4

If I could just wake up tomorrow and be 15 again or wake up and be able to see, or wake up and be able to walk that’s what various people will be dreaming of. However on the day of resurrection will you get a choice? Will you be resurrected, as you are when you die? Or as you were when you were 3 or maybe 7 or as you were when you were 25 or like you are now or with a completely new form like an angel or a ghost? Will you be on earth on another planet? in the sky in heaven? Will you have a free life or be in a society you have to conform to or made with an overwhelming desire to spend all your time worshiping God? will you be Fit - Old – Tired – Ill – Disabled – Wise - Innocent.
If some bit of you does live on then if it does not include your memory what use is it. Without memory you would be like you are when you are in a deep sleep and if you sleep like me that’s nothing. So either it does include your memory or it is nothing.
Many will have to hope that their new soul will be better constructed than there old one was because many are disabled. Many die of illness and do not have memories they would like to live with for ever. Most die at a point in their existence where they are not at their best.
So what to do?
Just in case memory is included then start now and positively make sure you change your life, as best you can, work at it to build the memories you want to have for ever. If it includes your body, as it is when you die, then hope to die when you are at your peak.
If memory is not included then what? Maybe you will be resurrected to be like you were when you were born. But you are! Tomorrow 100’s will wake and be perfect and have no memory, We call them our newborn at the same time 100’s will never wake again and many will regret it but as many may also be released from the purgatory that their life has become. So lets be sure to treat our newborn well. One day one of them may be you, though you will not remember the you, you have been. So just in case, be a good parent and try to leave the earth a decent place to be new born into.

Answer 5

How can any-one say there is?
We have no proof either way unless you are gullible enough to believe in 'mediums'
I dont know or care what comes after death!
I'll live as best I can while I can and I dont have a depressed, crappy life or am the least bit sad or sick!
To me its just as stupid to believe in Heaven and Hell but What people want to Believe is their own business!

Answer 6

There's nothing for your current being after death, but you can't destroy matter so you must go on to create something else. All the other electrical impulses that you think are a soul or intelligence dispel.

I'm not depressed and I have a fulfilled life full of love for now. Honestly I think it's depressing to look forward to an afterlife and get sucked into all the religious/superstitious clap-trap that is used to control the simple-minded. Live now, love now.

Answer 7

I am not particularly depressed neither by my life or the idea that when I die the atoms and particles that make up my physical form will return to the 'universal soup'. Only people who truly believe that they are too 'special' to simply cease to be are convinced that death isn't the end of them.

Enjoy the brief moment of existence that you have. We are an accident of nature and the laws apply as much to us as to any animal we just happen to have the mental capacity to worry about these things.

Answer 8

Now even though I do believe there may be more to the purpose of life and the existence of Man than meets the eye - it is not 'sick', nor 'shallow' nor 'sad' for folks to believe there is nothing after they die.

For some it is enough to marvel at the wonder of being here, alive and able to appreciate the sensuality of our beautiful planet for them not to need to hope or imagine there can be more to this existence than this. Just to be part of this amazing fabric of mortal life, all at once one with the Universe and part of it - yet unable to 'know' more than the merest fraction of this miraculous and inexplicable coagulation of atoms and molecules is absolutely mind-blowing in and of itself...

What is 'sad' and 'shallow' is when, as an individual a person never has any ability to connect with the fact that they are part of the miracle of life. It is 'sad' if their vision of their place in the Universe is delineated by their job (or lack of it), the TV, radio, soap-operas, sport, booze, video-games, escapism of any kind...the humdrum time and life wasting mundanity that describes so many lives in the society in which we live in this so-called 'developed' part of the Earthly world in which we currently exist.

What is 'sad' is when folks cannot stop each day to spend a few moments marvelling at the world around them, at the 'real' achievements of our human race...and to take time out to decide to contribute positively to the world around them in whatever way they can, with purpose and motivation, every day that they continue to live...and to do their best to inspire, teach, and motivate all they come in to contact with to do the same...

In the end...it really does not matter if any individual does not 'believe' in 'what lies beyond'...the fact is what ever there is beyond this life will still be there for them and us...and depending on the form our next stage of existence takes - they will either come to appreciate their folly (lacking belief in their Earthly, mortal phase) if there is any merit in realizing folly, or they will wholly transcend their mortal self and move on to the next plane to do that which is the wont of that Power which is greater than us.

The only real downside in 'not believing' there is a life hereafter (IMHO) is that those who fail to 'see the light' are likely to have so much less a fulfilling time here in this short mortal time that we have.

Although one can only try to imagine an eternity of regret that might come from the realization that you failed to enjoy and appreciate all the wonders this world has to offer...and even more, that you failed to make any really worthwhile contribution...or even made a negative contribution.

Be grateful that your own insight, or faith brings you comfort...and continue to live your own life in an exemplary manner - being all you can be as a good, honest and positively contributing human being. When everyone lives a life treating others in the way they themselves would wish to be treated the sooner we shall experience paradise here on Earth and the clearer the purpose of our brief mortal sojourn will become.

Kind wishes to you and hope that your life is made the sweeter by your happy enlightenment.

Answer 9

What a load of crap, its far worse to go through life believeing that theres something AFTER you die and the worms eat you. A persons life would have to be pretty screwed if the only thing that keeps them going is the thought that their next life may be better than the miserable existence they are currently in.

Let me guess - you either write/sell or read books on re-incarnation?

Well done - i havent laughed so much at a paragraph of ill informed oppinionated shite in a long time.

Answer 10

its not shallow to think that...its actually shallow of you not to be more open minded and respect other peoples beliefs.
different people need different things to believe in something some people are brought up very religiously and so they become religious because thats what they know in life other people are not brought up in such strict circumstances and so would proberbly be more open minded when it comes to reilgion...others who dont believe in nothing after death may need proof, physical evidence....me personally i am kind of religious but i am open minded when it comes to other people and their beliefs...

Answer 11

hardly a sick thing!
some people,myself included, find it hard to deal with and understand what can come afterwards.
we live in an age where proof is more important than beliefs
personally i know that when i'm gone i'll find out then, and i have the patience to wait and see.
yes i was the kid who didnt look for my xmas pressie
i'm not shallow, my theory is that when the time comes i'll be allowed to know