What do you think happens when we die?

Question

I think you can make a (definitely <---- not a real word??) connection between the scientific view of what happens to us, and a religious view of what happens to us, as science says... we are made of energy and energy never stops, and as a religous point of view we die and join the presence of GOD in Heaven... which in my scientific point of view would be (GOD) = energy that makes up everything, (Heaven) to continue on forever as this energy... nothing really to stop or hurt us. Therefore we never die, we just join back into what we came from.... wow, i confused myself there...

Answer 1

We are made of matter, which is equivalent to but not the same as energy. There is some chemical energy involved too, but it's pretty low.

What's more, we are not just made of matter, but that matter has to be arranged in a particular pattern. One jumble of atoms is a person, another jumble is a rock. Unfortunately when we die, our pattern degrades, and everything that defines us as us, is lost.

All the memories, experiences, knowledge, preferences, personality traits, and wisdom that defines you is stored as patterns of neurons in your brain. We know this for a fact. Within minutes after you die, the neurons in your brain shrivel up and break their interconnections, and as a result all the information that defines you is lost.

Sorry to be the killjoy, but if anything of you survives beyond death, it would not be recognizable as you in any way. Most likely, nothing of you survives beyond death--we have ZERO evidence of any kind of afterlife or soul, despite the personal beliefs of the previous poster. But as far as I'm concerned, that just makes the finite time we have now, all the more precious.

Answer 2

Hi,

There is one thing about death that causes the problems and that is no one has ever come back from dying, I don't mean dead for a few minutes I mean for a few weeks to tell us what it is like.

That allows for all types of skepticism.

If you are religious you think that you go to your God or your version of Hell.

If you are not religious your body just crumbles back into the earth to replenish the land.

None religious persons also have the options of the soul roaming the Earth or transmigration, you have better options as a none believer...lol

Some believe the soul or spirit is reborn and this theory is supposedly born out by hypnotic regression.

Myself I believe that memories pass from person to person held within the genes, dormant until called upon by the subconscious, this could account for dreaming as well.

This can be seen within the animals kingdom, especially birds.

Who teaches a bird how to build a nest, when to breed, how to chose a mate.

Many fishes just lay eggs but the fish knows what to do when it hatches, what tells a salmon return to the place it was hatched many years later.

Some say instinct, but instinct must have a very IQ to do all of that.
No, it is inbred, in the genes.

Off the track a bit there, but it is one theory behind the phrase, 'some one dies but life goes on'.

I hope my outlook on life has helped you a little bit.

Skip

Answer 3

That's why I don't believe in God as a conscious being. My view of God is the sum of all of the energy in existence, for its ability to make things live or die, to create or end life, yet to never cease itself. I believe when you die your electrical energy returns to the world, your 'spiritual' energy also returns to the world, in an abstract sense, and your chemical energy (body) decomposes and is returned to the earth to create life again. I don't believe you consciously go anywhere after death, except, perhaps, into a new body (if that energy can be intact when recycled). The idea behind that is that energy can imprint on other energy, thus leaving an intact copy of its information. Perhaps, then, we reincarnate in a sense. Yet, I don't believe any imprint is complete, and so it's very hard to remember anything about a life you once had. Mostly, I believe, it's just the inclinations / demeanor in life that follows.

Answer 4

well for starters our bodies just become fertilizer for the earth and feed the little worms and other creatures. while as our souls continue on to the presence of god or the devil. we are all given tasks that we must do, some are reincarnated, others are made to wonder this world, completeing those tasks which were assigned to us. and others get to stay in heaven and live for eternity doin what we love. honestly there really is no telling what happens when we die. there are so many possiblities, its endless...

Answer 5

Everything ends, you cease to exist in any shape, manner or form. There is no heaven there is no Hell. Life after death is an ancient belief sold to the common man because life was so hard on earth. No one has ever come back from death so all those books that tell you what happens after death are a bunch of bunk. I've been to so called psychics who say they can see my daughter, talk to her, but none of them knows our secret word, the one we used when she was a child so she'd know the message was from me.

Answer 6

The real question is...Can you still think after you die without a brain? PBS, Carl Sagan, medial science and the smartest people in the U.S. would say no. In their opinion, only the insane, ignorant and gullible would disagree with them.

I think you still think and exist without a physical body. I am not a Christian or belong to any religion but I do believe in life after death. I have looked at the evidence both ways, without a bias, and have concluded life after death does exist.

So, when we die, we exist as a non-physical being. We are ourselves without a body.

Answer 7

Our education begins for about a thousand years to begin with. On earth we have learned so many things that are not so. In the field of science it is so. In the fields of theology and thosophy perhaps most, we have been lied to, and have been so gullible that most of what most people believe in religion is patently false and all has to be unlearned.

Answer 8

It's nice to think that there could be some kind of existence (or at least consciousness) after death--but I really believe it's far more likely to be the "long dreamless sleep" for all of us.

Curiously, if this is correct, none of us will ever be able to know it from our own eventual experience.

Answer 9

When you die, if you are lucky, people will miss you and mourn you. This means you had a full life with meaning to others. If you are not lucky you'll go unnoticed, and that means you wasted your life. Enjoy life like you are going to die tomorrow. Worry about the rest when you get there.

Answer 10

When we die, we either get buried or we get cremated or in some cultures, they throw the dead in the ocean or leave the bodies on a high plateau to be eaten by birds of prey.