• Theories of what death is like?
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your body dies. Heart stops and blood doesn't transfer to the rest of your body. your brain stops functioning and you get consumed by earthworms in the dirt. Very fun right?
[QUOTE=Jallen;15070543] [editline]03:23PM[/editline] Why hope? When you are dead you will not be concious to care about whether there is an afterlife or not. I don't see why people try and avoid the inevitable, I don't want there to be an afterlife.[/QUOTE] No one knows that. We can only assume that is the case. The only thing that is certain about death is that it is the end of our physical bodies. No one knows what else happens.
[QUOTE=Victor Leferve;15070625]No one knows that. We can only assume that is the case. The only thing that is certain about death is that it is the end of our physical bodies. No one knows what else happens.[/QUOTE] I agree with this man
I hope: The brain stops in the last second we're alive and we remember our whole lives exactly as it happened in 'normal' speed, whilst the world you're in currently in now freezes entirely for 'you'. You continue playing through your life until death over and over again, but can do different actions/choices (remain in control). So your bathroom might be in a different place than it was in the 'real life', but you changed it but were unaware of it.
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;15070649]I hope: The brain stops in the last second we're alive and we remember our whole lives exactly as it happened in 'normal' speed, whilst the world you're in currently in now freezes entirely for 'you'. You continue playing through your life until death over and over again, but can do different actions/choices (remain in control). So your bathroom might be in a different place than it was in the 'real life', but you changed it but were unaware of it.[/QUOTE] Replay life as you saw it, and make different choices? How fun
[QUOTE=Jallen;15070475]It depends how you look at it. I look at us as very complex computers, as really, that is what we are. When you die, electrical signals in your brain cease to happen and you no longer think. Seeing conciousness as a type of energy which will be conserved is like thinking that Microsoft Windows will continue to run in thin air without the computer hardware there. And I don't understand why people dislike the "cease to think" theory. You won't be concious to give a shit that you are dead, there is no nothingness because there is no thought to recognise it.[/QUOTE] There's a flaw in your theory though. You still live when there's no brain. And a computer still turns on when there's no OS. It just doesn't do anything. And if you pull the plug, shutting off the energy resource required to run, you killed it.
I think it's just nothing poof gone.
[QUOTE=FPtje;15070677]I think it's just nothing poof gone.[/QUOTE] what a sad, sad theory...
Heres another idea, one of my favorites: Immediatley after death, you are given ultimate power over the world. Sort of like the best sandbox game you've ever played. You get to fly around your planet doing what you want, without fear of the consequences, because it is your planet. YOU get to play God. Getting through your life, the ultimate test, results in the ultimate reward. Upon death everyone gets their own universe to edit. Freedom to effectively alter the world. Could be utter crap, but, who knows!
Honestly, i don't think death is something we can entirely comprehend. My opinion is that when you die you die. That you simply die and that's that. The best way i can think of to describe what it would be like is the fact that you were kind of "dead" before you were born. I think it will just be like that in that there will just be nothing.
I want to be a queen ant :)
[QUOTE=Binsky;15070732]Honestly i don't think death is something we can entirely comprehend. My opinion is that nothing happens with you die. That you simply die and that's that.the best way i can describe what it is like is the fact that you were kind of "dead" before you were born. I think it will just be like that. Nothing[/QUOTE] This idea keeps recurring. But, death is still different to pre-birth in the sense that, you were once living, now you're not. Pre-birth may have been completely different. You weren't living, now you are.
I think life is a big test, as victor says, if you pass your test without killing anyone, etc, you get to go to heaven and have ultimate control, and I also believe just before you die, you see a light, and your dead relatives, you can go to heaven, or come back alive.
[QUOTE=sami-pso;15070674]There's a flaw in your theory though. You still live when there's no brain. And a computer still turns on when there's no OS. It just doesn't do anything. And if you pull the plug, shutting off the energy resource required to run, you killed it.[/QUOTE] You can't live with no brain you silly. What do you think tells the heart to beat? It's like the BIOS of our brain, running underneath our concious.
[quote] But, death is still different to pre-birth in the sense that, you were once living, now you're not. Pre-birth may have been completely different. You weren't living, now you are.[/QUOTE] i definitely see where you're coming from. It's just something people are going to have theories about forever and almost any argument is valid.
Death isn't like anything. Your consciousness ceases to exist. It's hard to imagine what this would be like because we're all a bit used to existing.
[QUOTE=The Pro;15070605]Space Colonization. I'm sure a large amount of people would trade breeding for the cure for death until we get the ball rolling with a large scale mars colony, I do not want to have children. If you want the cure, you must agree not to breed. I do not "joke" about serious things such as this. If everyone was like you we would never get anywhere[/QUOTE] I stopped taking you seriously after the first 2 words. Look how far we have come in terms of space travel and things since the first time in space - not very. 1961 I think was the first time any man has been in space, and since that time, in 48 years we haven't even got civilians on trips to space yet. [editline]04:01PM[/editline] [QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;15070800]Death isn't like anything. Your consciousness ceases to exist. It's hard to imagine what this would be like because we're all a bit used to existing.[/QUOTE] I agree. [QUOTE=Kitachi;15070779]I think life is a big test, as victor says, if you pass your test without killing anyone, etc, you get to go to heaven and have ultimate control, and I also believe just before you die, you see a light, and your dead relatives, you can go to heaven, or come back alive.[/QUOTE] Life isn't a video game.. What basis is everyone using here? You can't just make shit up and say "I think this" (well you can, but it's extremely stupid). At least say "I [B]hope[/B] this"
[QUOTE=Binsky;15070786]i definitely see where you're coming from. It's just something people are going to have theories about forever and almost any argument is valid.[/QUOTE] Haha, yeah. Even if those people who have been dead for however many seconds, say they have 'seen the afterlife' and are correct, we still can't rely on that alone. We'll never know, unless someone shakes hands with the Grim Reeper himself, and videos it.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;15070800]Death isn't like anything. Your consciousness ceases to exist. It's hard to imagine what this would be like because we're all a bit used to existing.[/QUOTE] i agree
Nothing. /thread
[QUOTE=Jallen;15070803] Life isn't a video game..[/QUOTE] Might be..
[quote] Even if those people who have been dead for however many seconds, say they have 'seen the afterlife' and are correct, we still can't rely on that alone. We'll never know, unless someone shakes hands with the Grim Repear himself, and videos it.[/QUOTE] Haha they could edit the recording. XD
[QUOTE=Binsky;15070834]Haha they could edit the movie. XD[/QUOTE] Well, that settles it. There is no way humans will ever learn what the afterlife holds for them.
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I never really gave it that much thought but personally I hope that ill be treated to my own kind of heaven where I do as I please. I also like the idea of reincarnation. It's just hard to believe that this is all we have. Then again that's probably why religion was born, to give people a hope that there is more to life then there really is.
Consciousness is energy, like a radio wave. The brain is the receiver. When your brain dies, you just have to find a new one to transmit to.
[QUOTE=Saxon;15068982]I don't think death is really the end but maybe you exist in another state of conciseness or some uncomprehending form. It would be really boring though just being a ghost and watch for eternity as humans progress and you can only but watch.[/QUOTE] You're not ghosting anyone, it's just like sleeping but without any dreams. NOTHING.
[QUOTE=Victor Leferve;15068954]Death happens to everyone. So everyone can have an opinion![/QUOTE] Am I the only one who found this statement completely self-contradictory? People can't have an opinion of death until they die, and when they die, they can't have an opinion. It's simple. To think that you have an "idea" of what death is like is usually unintelligent at best, it's often nothing but unqualified, useless nonsense (I'm not even going to call it a guess). The reason I'm saying "often" and "usually" is because there's a small group of intelligent people who can actually accept the fact that they won't experience their own death because, well, they're dead. It's also the only reasonable, qualified idea other than "I don't know" (which is a perfectly good answer to a lot of questions, but people don't seem to realize that).
I'm scared of shit of forgetting everything. I don't mind diying but I would hate forgetting everything :C Also, i'm scared of everything ending, nothing, you just forget and everything is black...:frown:
I agree with the whole cease the exist thing. Believing anything else would happen is illogical; before you were born you didn't exist yet you have no recollection of this, thus death will be the same thing. We as Humans exist with our brains and various senses connected to them, if you disconnect any of these senses then we no longer possess them, if you remove them all then you're just a biological blob of thought. If you take out parts of your brain(like in an accident), then you can still be alive but lose your memory, become unable to do simple tasks and all sorts, all the way until you become brain dead at which point you'd still be technically alive but not really. Death is no different, your senses stop working, your brain ceases to function and you fall asleep forever.
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