Atheist where and what do you think happens to you when you Die, since you don't believe in heaven or hell?

Question

Let's see you don't believe in Spirits, heaven or hell.... so what is it you think happens when you die. do you just puff, your gone, nothing?
I am trying to understand what is going through your heads, I am being sincere about it. Can you explain.... thanks:)

Answer 1

for the atheists who believe you just cease or rot-
how sad is that- if this world is all there is- we have no hope at all. My hope is in Jesus-

Answer 2

Very good question. I can give you my beliefs as a Pagan, born of the blood. When we cross the veil and leave our physical body, we ALL no matter what go to a beautiful place called Summerville. There we reflect on the life we just had, discuss the good and bad. If you have lived a good life, you move up a notch when your sent back. If you were a jackass then you must return to live your entire life over, and sometimes this happens several times for a spirit to get it. We do see those that have gone before us, spirits tend to stay with the same people. I do not believe in a heaven or a hell. We are here to learn and move up.
blessings
Rev. KellySue Thomson High Priestess

Answer 3

I figure, the brain is just like a computer, only it's running on parallel processing - lots of reactions working at once - instead of just the binary 0000101110101 business. (Sorry, I'm not the one to explain that to you - ask an engineer or CS guy or something!) Maybe someday I think we could create brains like we create computers... but they're an awfully lot more complicated, so I don't know.

Anyway, after we die, it's just like shutting off. Only, instead of being plain-old turned off, we break down too. When we're alive we've got our own life-support system going to keep the computer (er...) running, but when the computer dies, so does the support system. So it decomposes, and can't be started up again, because it's too complicated and broken down.

If that seems too freaky - well, if you think, there's always all these conscious folks around you, going through the same emotions... the human (or animal) consciousness continues after you die, and one person leaving the system doesn't change that. So it's not like the end of all those emotions - just the end of your particular, specific set.

Sorry, it's hard to explain all of this! I suppose you knew that when you asked the question, though :) Best luck -

Answer 4

Everything is matter and energy. I was matter and energy before I was alive, and I will that again afterwards. Our consciousness comes from the biological and chemical processes that happen in our brain. The fact that you can ask the question "how can it all have been for nothing", doesn't mean that life has a special meaning, otherwise then that life came into existence because it could.
I think that when I die, for me it will be a total, never ending unconsciousness, dreamless sleep or coma, a giant unawareness. If I would be able to wake up from death, I think there would be nothing to remember.
People continue to live after death in their kids and the way they influence their surroundings.

Answer 5

Yes, that's about right. When the brain ceases to function, you are dead. No spirit floats away. Your consciousness simply ceases, and all that remains of you are the memories people have of you and the results of the deeds you did while alive. For people who grew up with religious beliefs, this can be a pretty frightening thought--simply ceasing to exist--but you get over that after a while. It's no different than what you "experienced" before being born. Perhaps now you can understand why atheists tend to place great value upon the precious span of time we have during life. Life on earth is not just a waiting room for something else to come. It is all that is, at least for the individual. We have our time, make the best use of it as possible (at least hopefully), and then we die, making room for others.

Answer 6

What happens to you while you are unconscious under anaesthesia for instance. You have no awareness at all.
Further most of the dead people I know tend to stay dead. I am not making any claims because I have not yet died, but I think you would need some evidence or reasons to make any contrary claims in this regard.

The only possible explaination I might find credible for not dying might be "quantum immortality" which is why I don't completely discount the possibility but I still need evidence.

Answer 7

Personally I believe you rot into the ground if you are buried and feed the growth above you. Not only that you feed a massive host of all kinds of insects that do a very good job of breaking the body down, thus keeping nature in perfect balance. Ashes....well, I know they're good for the roses.

I believe that happens to make way for new born humans on the planet. If we didn't end.....things would get pretty crowded.

I believe the spirit of me, that is, the zest of who I am may continue in my children....or not!

Answer 8

The random chemicals in your brain cease to react, thus all sembalance of "Personality" "Thought" or "memory" is instantly deleted, and are nutrients return to the soil as the part of the circle of life. We have no meaning and are only here to pass on our genes.
Just kidding, Im not atheist, I dont see how they can deny the soul.

Answer 9

Forget about some mythical place that none of us can possibly know about. Get on with your Life here on earth and do everything you can to make this world a better place for all humanity! No one has ever died and returned to tell us about it. You can't possibly know what's there!

Stop obsessing and start Living!
Live's a journey -- NOT a destination!
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Answer 10

Yep, thats about it. The body breaks down to it's constituent elements and gets recycled.

I suppose, if you want to get philosophical, it is life everlasting, being past of the natural cyles of the Earth. But I'm not a philosopher.

Answer 11

Probably nothing. I cease to exist, in the same way I didn't exist before I was born.

To be perfectly honest, though, I don't know for sure, and neither does anyone else. I can live with that.

In fact, I reckon I can probably live best with that.