After I Die?

[George-ananda]

What will happen to me after I die?

As in what will I experience?

What should I expect?

IMO, It will be a positive experience as reported in Near Death Experience accounts. You will enjoy experiences and growth on the astral/mental planes of nature. Down the line you will reincarnate for further growth experiences.

What is the basis for your answer?

My decades of study on Near Death Experiences, paranormal phenomena and Vedic (Hindu)/Theosophical teachings that I consider to provide the best explanatory model of reality.

 

[firedragon]

What will happen to me after I die?

As in what will I experience?

What should I expect?

What is the basis for your answer?

Not even a near death experience is death. So I highly doubt anyone is able to answer this one.

 

[Aupmanyav]

What will happen to me after I die?
As in what will I experience?
What should I expect?
What is the basis for your answer?

Most probably my body will be on the dissection table of a medical college (probably All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi) and students will be peering into the innards of my body to understand the working of human body, checking individual muscles, bones, veins and nerves; and wondering as to who this bloke was who left a tattooed message on his body saying "Hi, guys; Aup. Here. "
I will be no more, so nothing to experience.
No expectation, since I will be no more.
Science and commonsense.

 

[Aupmanyav]

A dream or a nightmare depending on how you lived.

That will last for a minute or two after the heart stops working; though to you, it will seem like ages.
Perhaps there is a time-dilation in dreams and death; before the final 'white-out' as in NDEs, with or without the sky-daddy holding your hands.
All because of carbon-di-oxide or carbon-mono-oxide accumulating in the brain.

 

[The Hammer]

it will seem like ages.

Ah good.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Ah good.

See the edited and improved version. Yes, normally it is not bad. No pain, because the pain-centers close down first.

 

[RestlessSoul]

@The Hammer

I won't be there, will I ? Cognizance doesn't travel well !

Your Self beyond cognisance?

Of course, it won’t know it’s you, in any personal sense. My own belief, the mind, the memories, the name, the ego all die with the body. But all those are illusion anyway, as this world is illusion m. That which dies was never real. That which is real, never dies.

 

[RestlessSoul]

Not even a near death experience is death. So I highly doubt anyone is able to answer this one.

No one is able to answer it with complete authority, I agree.

There’s been some interesting speculation on this thread so far though.

 

[Willamena]

What will happen to me after I die?

As in what will I experience?

What should I expect?

What is the basis for your answer?

The basis for my answer is "me." (Just me.)

What is this "me" that would allegedly "die?" What is the evidence that any such thing occurs? Is it loss of consciousness.. because I've that's happened and I'm still here. Is it loss of awareness? That happens a lot, and I'm still here. So what defines death, from my perspective?

I think it's "them," those others, those people who are not me who define death.

For me, there is no death.

 

[RestlessSoul]

That will last for a minute or two after the heart stops working; though to you, it will seem like ages.
Perhaps there is a time-dilation in dreams and death; before the final 'white-out' as in NDEs, with or without the sky-daddy holding your hands.
All because of carbon-di-oxide or carbon-mono-oxide accumulating in the brain.

Sky-Daddy made me think of this, which I want played at my wake. Apologies to Norman Greenbaum, btw, but I do prefer this version.

 

[firedragon]

No one is able to answer it with complete authority, I agree.

There’s been some interesting speculation on this thread so far though.

Yes you are right for sure. It is interesting to hear peoples ideas. I am sorry to have made that post. Its not gonna help in any way.

 

[RestlessSoul]

Yes you are right for sure. It is interesting to hear peoples ideas. I am sorry to have made that post. Its not gonna help in any way.

Your post is perfectly valid though.

 

[blü 2]

What will happen to me after I die?

When the biological systems of your body irreversibly cease to function, your brain, along with your personality, memories, instincts, language, feelings, concerns, reflexes and everything else will likewise cease to exist.

As in what will I experience?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Nothing resembling or representing you in any way will be around to experience anything.

What should I expect?

That you and everything about you as a live entity will cease to exist.

What is the basis for your answer?

Basic biology.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Most probably my body will be on the dissection table of a medical college (probably All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi) and students will be peering into the innards of my body to understand the working of human body, checking individual muscles, bones, veins and nerves; and wondering as to who this person was who left a tattooed message on his body saying "Hi, guys; Aup. Here "
I will be no more, so nothing to experience.
No expectation, since I will be no more.
Science and commonsense.

That's probably the destination for my body, in the UK of course, and being so perhaps I'll have - Handle with care! - tattooed on my willy.

Otherwise, I think of existence after death as being much like existence before death - so, not existing other than materially.

 

[Aupmanyav]

For me, there is no death.

There is death. Don't go into denial, accept what it is. Sometimes it stares in the face, some time it takes moments, sometimes years of dying, as the dice rolls.

Islamic State radicals execute up to 600 in northern Iraq, reports say

 

[viole]

What will happen to me after I die?

As in what will I experience?

What should I expect?

What is the basis for your answer?

It will be like you before being born.

ciao

- viole

 

[`mud]

It will be like you before being born.

ciao

- viole

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Pure Spirit

 

[Clara Tea]

What will happen to me after I die?

As in what will I experience?

What should I expect?

What is the basis for your answer?

Unknown. Perhaps unknowable. One could speculate that God exists, but one could also speculate that the tooth fairy exists.

Many preachers use religion to dupe theists into giving them money. While it is true that humans, in general, are not perfect, it seems that some preachers are very very far from perfect. Some rape little boys....some hire prostitutes....some people (like politician Sarah Palin) boast that their kids are examples of abstinence (though they are very far from that).

With all of the phoniness, it is difficult to separate truth from fiction.

Around the entire world, it seems that humans have a propensity for worshiping a God(s). Perhaps they make up Gods in order to worship them.

Some want to hedge their bets, claiming that there are no consequences if they are wrong about the existence of God, and if there is a God, they chose correctly to believe in him.

 

[Clara Tea]

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Well, disagreement is allowed.

But what are you disagreeing on ?

The fact that cognizance exists, or cognizance leaves a dead body ?

Or...the `soul` is the .......whatever you think.....the end is the end.

I think the spirit goes free into another dimension of existence,

to merge with all the other spirits that are already there,

to become more Stuff to generate more Life.

While we are speculating, lets also speculate that a gigantic man named Atlas is holding up the world (has anyone seen his hands?). But if he's holding us up, who is holding him up? So we must speculate that Atlas is standing on a giant tortoise. But if the tortoise is holding up Atlas, what is holding up the tortoise? We could speculate that the tortoise is standing on some support (ad infinitum). Speculation is like that...it starts with a fairy tale, and it gets more and more bizarre.

It isn't long before you have whole cults swallowing poison (like the Jonestown cult or Heaven's Gate cult). Weird speculation about religion paves the way to weird speculation about dying to reach the afterlife (and maybe there is no afterlife).

 

[Clara Tea]

Why not focus on "while I live?"

Why not focus on the homeless, the debt, pollution, global warming, wars, etc?