Possibility Of Nothing After Death?

Question

The laws of thermodynamics state"Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed" does this mean that something must happen to our energy at the moment we die. Will we ever be able to scientifically proove there is an afterlife? Just the thought of non-existance sends shivers down my spine.

Answer 1

Your body constantly uses a substance called ATP, (Adenosine Tri-Phosphate), to power all of the processes which causes your body to "live". Basically, your body converts the food you eat into this ATP and distributes it to all the cells in your body via your bloodstream.

When you die, the blood stops flowing and the cells stop receiving their needed allotments of ATP. However, the ATP is still there even though you are dead. It hasn't disappeared simply because you have stopped functioning.

So, no energy is being lost. Its all still there, its just not being used anymore to power your cells.

Eventually, as your body decays, the ATP will probably break down into other chemicals, or it might get eaten by microbes or worms. However, the energy will still be conserved. Nothing will have just vanished.

In fact, if souls exist, they are probably not made up of any sort of normal "energy". If they were, we could probably detect them somehow.

If souls exist, they would have to be composed of some sort of non-material "stuff" that doesn't interact in any observable fashion with normal matter and energy. If they interacted, then we could find proof that they exist. So far, no one has been able to design any sort of system that can detect anything that appears to be a "soul".

As for non-existence being scary...

Every night when you sleep, there are periods of your sleep during which you do not dream. Of course, you do not remember these periods because you are basically completely unconscious at that point. You are not experiencing any sort of sensory input. No memories are being recorded by your brain, (or, at least, no memories that you can easily recollect).

Do you fear sleeping because you have periods during your slumber when you have no awareness? Do these periods of complete unconsciousness seem somehow horrifying to you every morning when you wake up?

Basically, if there is absolutely no life after death, it will be a lot like those periods of dreamless sleep. No pain, no horror, no sorrow, no worries, no boredom, no disappointment. Its really not anything to fear. When there is nothing, there is nothing to be afraid of.

If there is no life after death, then that would mean that death would bring perfect rest and perfect peace.

On the other hand, if there is life after death, then you will have to somehow keep yourself occupied for all of eternity. If you believe in the Christian ideas of heaven and hell, and you believe that you are going to be in heaven, would that really be perfect happiness?

Remember, supposedly the devil lived in heaven and somehow he ended up being unhappy enough to go to war against God. He also managed to somehow get a huge number of angels to go along with him in this coup attempt.

If one angel in heaven has rebelled and caused a war in heaven in the past, how could anyone know that it wouldn't happen again in the future? So, even in Heaven you would have to worry about suddenly finding yourself in some sort of huge cosmic war zone. If God couldn't keep his angels from rioting in the past, there is no reason to think he can somehow completely eliminate that danger now.

In fact, the only stuff humanity knows about God is what God has chosen to tell them. What if God has certain rather nasty things about him that would only become apparent once you were trapped in Heaven with him for all of eternity? What if it turns out that God has some sort of personality disorder and randomly just tortures things around him on occasion?

Christians, of course, would say such an idea is absurd. However, there is no way we can know if it is truly absurd or not. The Christian faith does contain some elements that make it seem that everything is not always perfect in Heaven. The simple fact that the devil is supposed to exist shows that Heaven is not perfect and that there is something about God that caused a huge number of his angels to turn on him.

If you go to heaven, do you really know what you are getting yourself into? Christians like to tell themselves they know what heaven would be like, but they really don't. There is no way they could really know.

Personally, I would have to say that non-existence sounds a lot safer and more peaceful that getting all caught up in the rather nasty political struggles that apparently take place in the spirit world occasionally.

Answer 2

Dont Die!

After all the body wasnt designed just to become wormfood
Think about it
a single human cell in a dish of nutrients can survive for 130 years
and every cell in your body replenishes itself constantly
No cell in your eyes is ever more than 11 days old
so why do you age? and need stronger and stronger glasses?
Why is 97 percent of your DNA passed down through evolution merely "Junk" DNA and not used outside the nucleolus's membrane in the body of the cell?

In that Christian Bible why were Moses and Elijah also there in more glorious bodies already on the mount if the Master known as Jesus was the one that invented eternal life?
Why are we not supposed to question? Are we embarrasing experts in thier ignorance?

Find some intelligent Quantum Physicists and read their stuff if you can decipher words like event horizons and nonlocalities and Parallel Realities and you will find quite a few of them fully believing that anyone that can survive for another 5 years (and supposedly per event horizons such isnt going to be a drive thru window sure thing for anyone) should be able to live hundreds of years - plenty long enough for immortality to be unfolded from humanity
Just the thought that the truth is out there but misinformation is everywhere is what sends shivers down my spine.

Answer 3

I guess you should not think about it too much because that is what is going to happen. Why is that so frightening? Once it you die you will not be thinking anything.

I fail to see how you think the Laws of Thermodynamics apply to an afterlife. Either you body will be consumed by other organic creatures for energy, or you will be cremated and you will be heat energy.

Answer 4

I do not know what religion you are, or even if you have one but this is my belief:

I am a Christian and I believe in the traditional Judeo-Christian belief that after you die...nothing happens. You are dead, unconscious, sleeping, you know nothing. However, after Jesus comes back for the resurrection then he can bring you back to life again. And that will be the "afterlife" I do not think people have an immortal soul or turn into ghosts or anything like that.

Answer 5

If Energy can not be destroyed, then it MUST be "preserved" in SOME capacity- at our deaths. Perhaps it "re-organizes" into some other form; or disperses over a larger area- it's hard to say... But how ever it re-constitutes itself- it logically can't just cease to "exist"... Maybe ALL that really "changes" is our Awareness of what we know- & don't... :)

Answer 6

I've had a spirit in two different places throughout my life that I was totally AWARE of (I'm 49 years YOUNG btw)....I totally believe our energy is still here after our bodies die. I know for a fact ..... it's not just "over."
Besides, in REALITY -- and think about this -- do you remember anything before you were born??? I'll bet you say NO. Therefore, IF I'm wrong, you won't know the difference when you die so it won't matter. It's all okay. Just enjoy your life (even if it's not GREAT) WHILE you are here.

Answer 7

I can tell you that I have confirmed the existence of life after death.
It is not a scientific confirmation though.

All of my relatives, as they died, came to visit me in my dreams.
The first one came to me before anyone knew she was dead. She did this because I asked God about three months before her death to prove to me that He existed and that there was such a thing as an afterlife by letting me know before anyone else that my Great Grandma was dead. And it happened. And I announced to my parents that next morning that she was dead and that she had come to me the night before. My parents thought I was being too weird and took my OUIJA board and my antique french ghost book away from me. Then came the letter saying that Great Grandma had passed away.
So, no, it is not scientific, but I would swear on a stack of bibles that what happened is true.

Answer 8

Sure, something happens to the energy. The heat dissipates into the surrounding environment, as does any other energy. Do you remember how things were for you 1000 years ago? You didn;t mind that did you? That's what it will be like for you again after you die.

Answer 9

I would say so. Scientifically, all we would need to be able to do to is find a way to enter into and out of spiritual plane of existence without dying; but so long as scientists disregard it's very existence, and are more interested in the far easily understandable material plane, it will never happen. That's more than likely the way God wants it. This way it comes down to one on one: everyone individual accountable for their beliefs.

Answer 10

Afterlife will never be proven on earth. The chemist and his lab is useless when it comes to the spirit (not energy) world. Energy is another of the things God created. We have no idea what the spirit is, since we have never experienced a possibility of knowing what it is.