I believe our atoms scatter off and bounce into the next thing they can cling to over and over again until we make up a new being. Then we start over.

If it was up to me our souls would convene out in space, get a fresh coat of paint, a report on how we did this go around, then go off to do whatever’s next.

Don’t know, probably nothing. Whatever happens but with a score screen in the end. Times taken a piss, hours slept, right/wrong ratio when arguing on the Internet.

Mom gets sad

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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.

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…

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.

Whatever you are is no longer tethered to physical reality so whatever you think will happen, happens to you.

System of choice? Maybe no death whatsoever. Or that people’s spirits continue on and can opt to be ghosts or do whatever but it’s so unanimous and known it’s like “did you hear Greg died? Well he can’t type his report up so you have to type it out for him before he retires. Lucky bastard doesn’t have to eat the gross sheet cake we got for him and can retire.”

I think the situation from Defending Your Life or Eternity seems pretty neat for an afterlife, but realistically I think that the best we can hope for a “heaven” is living on in good memories from those we leave behind.

Being reincarnated into a well-loved house cat would be pretty dope too.

But ultimately I think our consciousness just stops and we return to the same state we didn’t exist in, before we existed.

I’m good with the Lifestream theory. Not as fantastical as it is depicted in FF7 of course but the basics definitely incorporate most of the least ridiculous theories into something I can believe in. Even physically we do become one with the planet, which in turn is part of the universe. A soul is just your personal sliver of the Lifestream, once you’re done it goes back in and might just come back into another living creature. Until the Planet gets scorched by the sun at which point I don’t have a clue. Either way, all is one and one is all is comforting enough sentiment. No need for imaginary friends or mythical designs, no overseer, just life and its cycle.

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

Nothing. I’m not spiritual, though I do sort of believe some things like that in a non-literal fashion. I don’t believe I am part of some sort of unity, though I would say that yeah in an abstract sense I am just a complex multi-cellular organism and in most cases cooperation with other multi-cellular organisms is preferred. With the systems how they are now though, I am not participating (even if it is to my own detriment).

Design? It would require a bunch things that likely won’t happen in my lifetime. Basically a transhumanist re-do. Get my brain somewhere and somewhen better, get it going again ideally with a mix of symbiosis+tech that allows existing comfortably. This could take a lot of forms too (many that others would find too alien/isolated), though not too hopeful about the future and that I could actually have a place in it.

Depends on whether you get cremated or not. If you’re cremated, you turn into ash. Otherwise you most likely turn into dirt.

Do you remember what its like to be asleep? Well, being dead is just the same, but for longer.

If quantum immortality is real, things might get really weird the closer to the end you get. The idea is if there is an infinite multiverse and our consciousness experiences one of them, then it could pick the “best” one, by some definition of “best”. In which case unlikely things that can keep your life going (and be worth keeping going) are more and more likely to happen as you exhaust the more likely possibilities that would end your life. Could be that each of us ends up immortal in our own universe, not really alone because other people are there but alone in that their consciousnesses aren’t likely present (unless your best unlikely future is also theirs).