Where do we go when we die? (page 3)

cofty

I am sorry about the loss of your friend.

It seems wrong that humans, with all our potential, are such temporary beings, but all the evidence points to that conclusion.

Before we were conceived we simply did not exist. For far too few years we consume vast amounts of energy to defy entropy and experience the sensations of being alive. When our bodies can no longer sustain the process that is life we dissolve and cease to exist once more. There is no "ghost in the machine".

Our atoms return to the environment to be recycled and the energy that our metabolism had stored dissipates like a breath on a misty morning.

I am sure death is nothing to fear, but I am eqaully sure we should resist it until the end. This is the only life we have, it is not a rehearsal and death is not "a gift".

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

Pacopoolio

At the very best, you can hope that infinite possibilities out there really do exist, and a zillion zillion years later all of the matter that makes this solar system and that composes you comes back together to repeat the exact life you already lived (as that's the only way it would be "you"). Which also means that you'd better maximise your life as much as absolutely possible as it is, since it really is the only one you'll ever and always live :)

But yeah, you die, your matter breaks down, you become energy, you become matter again. Recycled over and over again throughout time.

James Brown

Good people go to Florida or Arizona (if they aren't already there).

Bad people go to Detroit or Cleveland.

Rub a Dub

Rub a dub. I am already here, Florida.

I left cleveland 31 years ago to get here.

I guess I am kind of like Hugh Heffner.

I cant go someplace better when I die.

bsand20

Rub a dub, time and place.

I knew this was a broad question that was gonna generate a lot of different views, however I asked this at a moment I really needed to hear something and I ask here because weird as it may sound, I can relate to answers from exJw's like me because its like talking to "family".

I know there will be many different thoughts on this subject because there is no tangible evidence to come to a definitive answer, but I guess as stated, it's also a subject for which the answer lies in what everyone individually believes to be true. I guess for me I go back and forth because I didn't get closure, I didn't get to say goodbye. Some days are good, others not so much, but not a day goes by she is not on my mind at least once. I guess this is still part of the grieving process and can only hope each day is better than the next.

Thanks everyone for your input and condolences.

snowbird

redvip2000

The bad news is, we are just like the animals and return to dust when we die,

Exactly. It's hard to accept mortality, but this is all we have - a few moments in this great little planet. Just enjoy it as much as possible.

Why believe in fairytales which are based on wishfull thinking? Everything is temporary; the universe was here before planet earth existed, and once the Sun runs out of fuel to burn, the earth will no longer have life on it - the end. This is just a cycle, and probably many other planets with life existed and also ended their life cycle millions of years ago. Other planets with life will appear somewhere else in the universe and they too will come to an end millions of years later.

Seraphim23

Lots of views and opinions here about death and what it is and means. It’s wise to make up one’s own mind. Ideological world views have a habit of being incomplete or wrong. I personally think there is something more to being human than the body or mechanism myself but the details may be inaccessible to us of exactly what. Some will say that is because there aren’t any and others will say there are and they should be interpreted their way. What is a human to do? Evidence is a place to look but beware of those who define what evidence is according to such world views.

Vanderhoven7

Jesus said, "Lazarus is in heaven and I am going to call him back for more suffering on earth" . Oops, no that can't be right.

Oh, that's it. He said, "Lazarus is sleeping i.e. not conscious just like Samuel was", He didn't say "non-existing" . He also said, "God is a God of the living" in referemce to the OT worthies. So all are alive to God, not stuffed somewhere in a memory bank.

sporece

No evidence that "something" goes to heaven after we die, no one has ever come back besides what we read in the bible which i don't believe anymore.

No hell for sure.

Nathan Natas

Isn't it great that the most popular myth determines reality?

There is no spirit realm, you do not have a soul, when you're dead you are gone, "heaven" is empty. There you go.

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