Atheists: what happens when you die?

Question

Im not a Christian. Dont be offensive please.

Im a Nihilist, im just simply curious about your...uhh... religion?

thank you.

so you just sleep forever basically?

Answer 1

The exact same that was happening to us for the 13.7 billion years before we lived.


Addendum:
"so you just sleep forever basically?"
No, you're not sleeping. You're just..."naught". The second law of thermodynamics is something all life struggles against as it goes about living; but it cannot be staved off forever. This is a simple fact of life.

Answer 2

Atheism IS_NOT_A_RELIGION. Why are so many people so ignorant about the definitions of words?!

Anyway

When you die you get buried, cremated whatever. Your friends and family mourn and have some delicately cut sandwiches. You cease to be, your inner light winks out.

No afterlife, no reincarnation.

If some people find this depressing - tough - I cannot force myself to believe in a magical sky daddy on the off chance I'll not *really* die.

So...circles aren't flat anymore?!

Answer 3

Atheism is not a religion, far from it. It's a lack thereof.

Most atheists find that since the mind is nothing more than an effect of the nervous system, when the nervous system stops, the mind ceases to exist.

Answer 4

We just die. We cease to exist. There is no more we. Our bodies rot (in case we're not cremated). And no, it's not like sleeping forever. You still have your subconscious when you sleep, your body still functions. There are no souls or ethereal matter that separate from us when we breathe that last breath. No more consciousness. We shall not see that white light others talk about. We shall not wander as ghosts or spirits tormenting the lives of those who pissed us off in life. Caput.

Answer 5

I don't have a religion. I'm an atheist. Saying atheism is a religion is like saying bald is a hair color.

Life for you after you die, is exactly what it was like for you before you were born.

Answer 6

Ummm....its not a belief in anything...when you die your flesh rots and you become dirt. Religion is for those who can't except that. Who worships a carpenter that lived 200 years ago? Is the earth still flat?....hahaha

Answer 7

Atheism isn't a religion, but I'll answer your question.

When you die, your complex, organized electrochemical interractions cease and you begin to rot. There is no "you" anymore.

As Dashes says, there is no "you" after you die, just as there is no "you" before you were alive. It's a REALLY simple concept. The question "What happens when/after you die," is a leading question, meaning that it leads to answerer to consider possibilities other than the obviously resulting nonexistence. It's kind of the same type of fallacious question as "What is the purpose of life" (as if there is an objective purpose) or "Who put us here," (when, obviously, there is absolutely no evidence that we were "PUT" here or that there is anybody TO put us here).

Answer 8

you become one with the Earth. You then become a tree. After that, they chop you down to make Bibles out of you. It's not a good idea though, because many people take the Bible way too seriously. Great book, just not true.

Answer 9

I think our spirit or what ever you want to call it just keeps moving thru space and time perhaps in a nother body. They body could be anything, maybee another human, or an animal or a tree, or a spec of star dust or a star.
But.
Know one can know for certain.We can't even know then next five minutes for certain.

They way I see things lines up most closely to Buddhist thought.

Answer 10

It is not a religious question. I think I speak for most atheists when I say our "soul", or a person's personality, feelings, etc, are contained within his brain. When he dies, his brain dies. What's left of him is the matter of his body and memories he leaves behind.

It's not really like sleep. Eventually you decompose and are composed into something else.