What do you remember before you were born? Nothing. What will you remember after you die? Nothing. Conciousness arises from the billion of interconnecting neurons in our brain. When those connections cut out, like it or not, we simply seize to be.
Kinda sounds like what I'm studying in Philosophy right now. Descartes says he can only believe that his mind exists because he can think however he denies the existence of his physical body because his senses are deceptive.
The only thing I got out of reading Descartes is that God is a triangle.
I'd like the think that there will be something. What scares me about death is the thought of total nothingness and the way I can't avoid it. But that's just it, I can't avoid it, so I shouldn't bother freaking myself out thinking about it.
Personally, I'd like to be reincarnated. Or be immortal. Either one works.
That's exactly how I feel. I mean imagine being in complete darkness, not being able to speak, not being able to do anything.
I once had this idea where the darkness after death was actually a 9 months long darkness where our senses count for nothing, just enough so we can forget everything of our past lives and then we are born as babies. Weird theory, but it did explain why babies talk gibberish.
As for reincarnating, I'd love to be reincarnated as an eagle ^_^
I'm sure this sort of topic has been discussed before, but I'm just curious to know what people think of it now. Do you think our bodies remain on this earth while our souls go elsewhere? Eg. Heaven.
Personally I believe that we're currently living in a dream and when we die, that's when we'll wake up.
That's pretty much exactly what I believe. Ha.
I don't believe in any sort of religion whatsoever, but I think that something has to happen after death. I can't imagine not having a functioning brain. I don't think we'll all be "Angels" but I think something will happen. It'd be cool if we were all ghosts... I would love to troll in ghost form.