What's after death?

Where do you think we go, or what do you think happens after we die? Do we simply become born into another body? Do we black out from all existance? What are your beliefs?

[GodlessHeathen]

Nothing. Although, I won't know for sure until I get there.

[Philboid Studge]

Hi SimMaster and welcome. I think that fear of death is the number one reason why Iron Age mythologies persist to this day. I vote 'black out from all existence' -- a Big Sleep.

Dead is dead. If you ever want proof just poke a dead person. Spend a few minutes to check it out. Notice that the body lets loose all the nasty stuff inside. Just like any other animal.
There is no puff of smoke, no spirit floating to heaven. Just the physical signs of death. We die just like every other animal that will ever exist. Ask anybody that has taken part in a medical disection. There is nothing there but flesh and bone.

revmonkeyboy

I'm going back to where I lived in 1959. (I was born in 1961)

There's a theory that the universe will stop expanding and then eventually collapse in on itself then explode all over again, and repeat. If this is true and the big bang happen the same way every time, (meaning the chain effect which created the earth and all its life will be the same) then there's a chance that as soon as you die you'll be reborn to live the exact same life over and over again for eternity. Hope you're living happily:D

SimMaster: I'm curious. What sort of an answer did you expect from an atheist forum?

TheSnake wrote

SimMaster: I'm curious. What sort of an answer did you expect from an atheist forum?

I know that some atheists have different views on death. I myself, haven't decided.

I'd wager that most atheists here disbelieve all supernatural things, including souls, so there isn't much room for an afterlife.

[Philboid Studge]

"I can't change the laws of physics!"

Doohan's wartime experiences were every bit as hair-raising as his fictional fights with the Klingons.

As a captain in the Royal Canadian Artillery Regiment, he lost a finger on the first morning of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

Besides this, his aerobatic exploits, which included nearly crashing his aircraft in Holland while taking "a look" at a German U-boat, earned him the title of "the craziest pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force".

An artillery captain and a pilot in the air force in the same war, that's quite an achievement.
Or maybe artillery and air force are the same thing in Canada?

ArchyDeluxe wrote

There's a theory that the universe will stop expanding and then eventually collapse in on itself then explode all over again, and repeat. If this is true and the big bang happen the same way every time, (meaning the chain effect which created the earth and all its life will be the same) then there's a chance that as soon as you die you'll be reborn to live the exact same life over and over again for eternity.

I know you weren't serious, but for the record, entropy prevents the sort of cosmic Sisyphus effect you assert.

We don't go anywhere. Except into the ground to rot. I know the thought bothers some people, but I don't see why, you were dead for eternity before you were born, and it didn't bother you then. Would I prefer a paradise of everylasting orgasms. Sure. Is it going to happen? No.

[WITHTEETH]

Remember what it was like before you were born? thats what death is like.

When you're dead, that's it. Game over man, game over.