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User voted Other.
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Oct 22, 2015

I don't know what happens, I don't really think the Heaven/Hell thing happens, but subjectively speaking there can't be nothing. Right at this moment you are conscious, therefore you are not unconscious. Can you describe what it's like to be unconscious? No, because if you are unconscious you fail to perceive, and a description is a representation of a perception. You can't be conscious of being unconscious, which is kind of a self proving statement. In the same way, an area of space cannot be dark and light at the same time, because darkness is the absence of light. It can be less light, but there still exists light, and not darkness. There cannot be nothing after death, because you would need a method to perceive that nothing. That's too easy an answer. There has to be something after death, but it isn't nothing. If there were some nothing for you, there would eventually have to be something, and because you can't perceive that nothing, then time would pass instantaneously, because you would not be conscious of the time passing. From your own perspective, life is never ending. It seems like life ends for other people, but that's just because we don't perceive what they do. So, perhaps, you could die and then simply fail to perceive time moving backward and live your life over again for all of eternity. That's a more sensible argument than nothing at all happening.

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Sep 15, 2016

Observing nothing is impossible. Even if you found an area in space where there are zero particles in there, and is completely shielded from the background radiation of the universe, it is still a space. It is still volume that is measurable, which contradicts the real meaning of nothing.

Humans are limited in the fact that we cannot perceive infinity. Nothing is kind of like infinity in that regards. Just because we cannot understand it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, just the same as just because we cannot see a 4th dimension doesn't mean it necessarily doesn't exist.

Nothing is really just the absence of perception, I suppose. Something is a known quality or quantity--a perception-- so nothing is the unknown, essentially. If we can't know it, we can't perceive it. If we can't perceive it, it is nothing. Not until we perceive something can we truly believe it exists.

Even trying to perceive nothing is creating something. I think it's possible that there is nothing after death because death could just be the ending of consciousness and perception. If we're truly dead, we couldn't perceive and so thus there is nothing. No thoughts, emotions or anything. Its not a sad, dismal concept if you think about it. You wouldn't be able to regret death or be sad.

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User voted There's nothing after death.
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Oct 29, 2015

To the same state they were in before they were conceived.

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User voted There's nothing after death.
1 vote
Oct 12, 2015

You become x amount of food for whatever decides to eat you, nothing more nothing less.

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Oct 23, 2015

Fridge, than an oven or underground or whatever You do with dead bodies.

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Apr 18, 2016

Think about what happens when you sleep, (hopefully, every night). You are removed from the everyday considerations, demands, and care for your physical body. This human vessel requires food and drink, protection/ repair from injury, and rest. It is a marvelous construction, able to repair itself, if the damage is not too great.

However, when you sleep, perchance to dream, then your mind is able to explore.

Free from mortal constraints, then you witness the ability to go from place to place in the blink of the eye, engage with curious creatures that your mind has created, or breather while under water, or even fly.

Perhaps this is what it is to be eternal, without our mortal coil?

What if, in the unending charge of eternity, this visit to this tiny blue marble, on the end of a finger of the Milky Way galaxy, is a vacation of sorts, for 80 or so years?

What is 80 years out of forever?

How many galaxies are there?

Maybe we get to choose, before we visit again. That would be pretty cool. If we are truly eternal, then it must be boring to always be the rich guy, the powerful woman, the super intelligent, for a drop in the ocean of time.

Some bored folks (after who knows how many of these vacations to being alive) might decide to come back and mess things up. Evil.

Or, a bug that splats in a windshield on your car.

Who knows?

I just think that this tiny box is not all there is.

Ya know.

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Nov 4, 2015

I believe the "groups" that formed our body move on to another environment or being. Our minds and conscious won't be there for any longer - but part of us will be leaving as it will thrive for survival whether it is in an environment or a new being. If lucky enough, one day one of these will become another mind/conscious. But we ourselves (our conscious) I believe go nowhere.

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Jan 3, 2016

When we die, the dust returns to the earth as it was and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7. Now what happens to us once we return to God...idk.

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