Atheists, what about this question?

Question

What happens to a baby when it dies?

Are you telling me that this baby is never going to experience life ever again. Is that what you are telling me. This baby human is never going to have a chance at life. That he/she is alive one second, and then dead never to exist ever again.

The same thing about miscarriage, and abortions. What happens to these human babies. Do you actually think that these humans are not going to come back on earth again or something else.

A baby has to go somewhere, so where they do actually go?

I kind of messed up with the last statement. I was trying to say what happens to the energy that made the baby alive go to?

I messed up again with that statement. Are you telling me that human baby is not going to experience life ever again?

Answer 1

you never would have asked this question if there was really a god, and he were really a merciful god !!

Answer 2

1) Yes, as sad as it is...babies are human. And humans die. So do all things in nature. It's a part of life, it's part of evolution.

2) Miscarriages and abortions can not be placed in the same category...as the fetus is not a human being. It can not breath on it's own until the lungs are developed, which happens at 36 weeks old unless it has help from breathing machines and medicine.

3) It's sad, but it's life. We are secure enough in ourselves to know this. We don't have to wish upon a god that there is an after life. We live for this life, and this one only. Period.

Answer 3

What happens to what the baby was, I guess you mean. It dies, it no longer produces chemical energy as its body breaks down and after its cooled down there isn't much energy left apart from in the entropy of the tissue, which can be taken by insects, worms etc that feed on dead flesh - strangely when religious people quote thermodynamic law 1 (energy is not created or destroyed just converted) they don't normally mean this.

Its a tragic thing but here is the rub. What we want reality to be and what it is, are two separate things. If someone's baby dies they don't want that to be the case at all - but its still the truth.

Babies who die don't get to grow up, they don't get to fall in love, they don't get to experience most of what being a human being is all about. Is it fair? Of course not. Who ever said life was though? One thing you can't accuse atheists of is believing what they want to believe. It has more intellectual honesty in it than that.

Answer 4

This is, as far as I am concerned , the central issue as to why some people can't accept that skeptics like myself, don't believe.

"A baby has to go somewhere...." Why?

Nothing has to go anywhere. Everything just is, the way it is. There is no reason. It's part of a need to be in control. "If I know where everything goes I have some semblance of control."

The reality of this Universe is that there is no control. Everything happens just because that is the way it happens. No god, no heaven, no life after death for anyone. Nobody goes anywhere.

You just happen to be alive. You have no "right" to life other than what the society you live in gives you. You are not in control. Nobody is.

Have a real grateful day.

Answer 5

They decompose like everyone else. Wishful thinking is just an attempt to make the living feel better. The dead don't care.

Edit: If you were attempting to suggest a soul, you probably shouldn't bother. Unless they happen to be Buddhist (like the nice fellow down there) or spiritual, atheists generally don't believe in souls. And there's no evidence of some "energy" other than biological life-sustaining functons which makes us live.

Edit again: Dead is dead. No, they aren't going to experience life again, because their life functions have stopped. Unless you are suggesting they can return to life as a zombie, I'm not really sure where you're going with this...

Answer 6

They don't have to go anywhere. Our beliefs don't change based on an age. They can be alive on second and then thats it. They go into the ground and then become worm food just like everyone else in this world. I love how people always ask, well what about babies, what about this, what about that. Like we magically beleive in something when there is a "for instance" presented.

Answer 7

Death is the end of life, regardless of how old you are. You might not like it, but that doesn't change anything.

The energy that made the baby alive continues to exist, as energy can be neither created nor destroyed. But that doesn't change the fact that the baby is dead and will never be alive again.

Answer 8

Maggots eat the baby's flesh. Microorganisms do the clean-up work. The whole process yields CO2 released to the atmosphere.

Bones may remain for a long time, provided humidity levels are low.

Hair lasts also a long time.

Either you take the facts as they are or cling to a delusion....still facts remain so.

Answer 9

I'm a Buddhist, and as a Buddhist, the life from the baby would merely go towards a rebirth. This is why I follow the middle path because stating something just goes to nothing is illogical.
However, I am by no means into Gods or anything and anyone who thinks that has little understanding of Buddhism

Those who think it just goes to nothing, I have to ask, How does something COME from nothing? Every action has a reaction but nothing has no action, no reaction, so, no existence. This is where Atheism fails.

Answer 10

Why do they have to "go" anywhere? Do you expect the same for the millions of baby turtles that get eaten every year? Humans are just another animal.

Answer 11

Baby humans, just like adult humans, are organisms. When the physiological and electro-chemical activity in an organism ceases, that organism, be it human, simian, insect, reptilian or whatever, is dead.

Whatever our hopeful sentiments may tell us, the fact is death is the end.