Just the title. Heavens? Hells? Purgatory? Nothing? Become one with the universe? Reincarnation?

Bonus question: If you could design the system of your choice, what would you want?

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    Same thing that happened before you were born. It’s terrifying but I’m pretty sure it’s just nothing. The human mind is just a production of our little meat computers. No computer no mind.

    If it was up to me I’d want to give people some kind of like, system. I’d want something like a personalized heaven, maybe a few ghosts. Another realm beyond this one.

    There should be some reason to be good in this world. The system should disincentive being a real piece of shit. Not sure how, not big in eternal punishment even if you really suck.

    If I died and God was like “Yeah it’s cool wanna go live another life in the world from your favorite stories?” That’d be tight.

    Maybe some real freaky multiverse shit, every time something dies with a soul it gets its own divergent universe. All things being an infinitely spanning tree.

  • nomad@infosec.pub
    2·
    2 days ago

    Nothing happens. But if i had the choice, I like the story “the egg”. I also would love to drop into spectator mode and be able to wander the earth and watch humanity flourish. Maybe some very minor ways to help guide humanity would be nice to…

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 days ago

    Nothing.

    Your “perspective,” your view of the world, and all of consciousness, is an illusion maintained by your brain. Death is no different than turning a machine off and disassembling it.

    I will say, the human ability to make conscious choices is really something special.

    Your “afterlife” is the hole you leave behind. It’s the impact you leave on the world, and how others remember you.

  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip
    311·
    6 days ago

    You do not “become” one with the universe - you already are. 🧘🏻‍♂️

  • CaptainSaabossa@piefed.socialEnglish
    24·
    6 days ago

    Since I’m not religious, the most logical answer is probably nothing. We simply cease to exist.

    Obviously though, I won’t know until it happens.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    No more shifts at work, no more rent to pay. Pure bliss.

    If I didnt have big plans for my death I’d probably have intentionally ODed on heroin already.

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
    3·
    4 days ago

    What I think happens: unfortunately, nothing, your consciousness simply ceases, you go back to the state you were in before you existed

    What I hope happens: it feels like being asleep for eternity, shifting in and out of dreams and enjoying memories of life

    Other ideas I like: becoming one with a universal consciousness, or a system where we’re punished for our sins and then go to paradise, or this life is a dream and you wake up in another reality barely remembering this life

  • FerretyFever0@fedia.io
    13·
    6 days ago

    We just die and then we’re gone. Reincarnation could be a comforting idea while we’re alive, but even if it’s real, we’ll never know.

  • notsosure@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    6 days ago

    Brain gets no more blood. Neural biochemistry breaks down. Brain dies. You die. That’s it. Except for some incoherent and contradictory texts from bronze-age books or wishful thinking by naive people, there is ZERO scientific evidence that heaven or reincarnation exist. Even Buddha never suggested we would reincarnate, that was an idea added later by some of his followers. The bible is very flimsy on the entire concept of hell and heaven.