Atheists, What happens to you when you die?

Question

Evidently, I am probably not going to make it to heaven. So from your perspective, what happens after you die? Do you just rot and thats it?

Thanks jessica for your input, but I really only wanted the perspective of the atheists. I am fully aware of Christian standpoint.

Again Online Church, I only wish to hear from atheists to night.

Teen Help, I never said I was an atheist, myself. I just wanted to know what the atheists thought.

Thanks spots, But I just wanted their input. I wanted to know what the atheists thought.

Answer 1

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body.
Rather to skid in sideways, Champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, totally worn out, body thoroughly used up and screaming Woo Hoo, What a ride!!!

Answer 2

Technically speaking an atheist denies the existence of god from religions but that does not mean they don't believe in a supernatural being or have their own theories about life after death.

In-fact a lot of atheist i believe have that one bit of doubt that makes them wonder if god does exist. Atheist i think basically are not 100% sure what is going to happen but they decide to follow the most logical explanation that we will cease to exist for an unimaginable eternity.

i cant speak for all atheist but not all of them believe you just cease to exist after you die. I think it is fair to say they are not sure and have doubt and Even though they would like to have a picnic in heaven, they think logically and realistically that there is not enough evidence of a heaven so there most likely ain't one. They believe scientifically speaking we have brain cells which store our memory and information, when these cells die it is like amnesia that person is dead. they don't believe the body is a container for a soul or they have a soul.

they could also have their own little theories like:

-some might actually believe there is a supernatural being or alien who runs this universe other than god that could bring them back to life

-some might believe you turn into a ghost

-some might believe you just repeat your life again and time rewinds

-some might believe in reincarnation

there is a lot of other theories and most atheists i don't think believe 100% that they will cease to exist but is unsure and will have that doubt in their mind.

Answer 3

I believe that when one dies one ceases to exist. In the nature of things my body will rot, as all dead things must; but my personality, my consciousness, what made me, me, will end.

I have had people declare and almost shout at me that energy cannot cease to exist, and that might be true. Perhaps the chemical/electrical, whatever, energy that activates my mind and enables my body will spin off into the universe, but I won't care, because I will not exist, nor be conscious of anything. I just won't be.

I once had a general anesthetic. When one sleeps one dreams, or responds to outside events, like a cat walking on one, or a loud noise can awaken one, but when under a general anesthetic everything ceases to exist for one. No pain, no sound, no stimulus can intrude; it is all blackness and dark and soundless and when one emerges there are no memories. I think death is like that. At one moment one is there, and then one isn't, and nothing can reach one, except with death there is no emergence nor awakening.

Answer 4

It's a mystery that we should accept that we'll find the answer to when we get there and shouldn't spend our time making myths about and harassing others over while we are here .

I believe there is a spark of energy that animates the biochemistry that characterizes us as alive now and this energy may or may not go somewhere. Barring actually seeing a deity in person dictating truths and instruction, I believe that the current ideas regarding "religion" are mere speculation driven by the fear of the unknown.

Answer 5

Well I can't speak for all atheists but -

You only rot if you chose to be buried. But then so do the bodies of believers as well. and that's it.

Just because you want an afterlife to exist doesn't mean that A) one actually does and B) you can convince yourself that one does. It just doesn't work that way. You can't make yourself believe something "just to be on the safe side"

Answer 6

Why ask an Athiest? I mean, am I missing something? Have there been a lot of athiests who have died and come back to life to know what it's like? Let me point something out that the athiests wont be able to argue...the brain is run on electrical impulses. Proven. You cannot "kill" electricity, you can only transfe it from one place to the other. Proven. So putting two and two together, the electricity that runs your brain has to GO somewhere - it transfers to SOMEWHERE. Whether you wish to believe it goes to Heaven or haunts a house or whatever, you can NOT dispute these facts - because its been proven by the same scientific community that they scream about all the time. HA!

Answer 7

Death is like going to sleep and never waking up. The only proof that heaven exists is that someone said so. Nothing else. If heaven is such a wonderful place, how come the Christian Religious Leaders try to avoid death like the plague? Don't say, "Because they have work to do" because, behind every one of them is a lineup of those ready to take their place.

Answer 8

See after death your all deeds are being taken account for..What you do on this earth shall be counted and if you have meditated on lord's name you shall be saved other wise you will turn back to this earth in one form or the other.
The simple example is that consider two children born at same time same city with a little difference..One is born @ a poor house and one @ king's place.One(@ poor's place) has literally no future but the later one becomes a prince with a single stroke of pen. Why??
This why is there because one had done good deeds in previous birth but might not have been liberated....and other had comitted wrong doings...resulting in a misery of his/her state, he/she is now in..

Answer 9

Well, i will not be alive any more, my body will decompose, and my spirit will either continue with some sort of consciousness into the next state of being or the energy of my consciousness will break down and return to the source to power new consciousness - just as the physical body breaks down and returns to the earth to fuel new life.

Answer 10

The soul of an athiest stays with the body, just smoulders there, and eventualy grows into a tree or something, But no reincarnation, no heavenly reward. I think what you believe is what you get