What happens when you die? 🤔 Vote here!

[mal3volent]

So I figured this was a pretty unique question and I doubt anyone has ever talked about it but... what do you think happens when we die?

This is your best guess, none of us "know" for sure.

If I forgot anything, please let me know and feel free to discuss in the comments down below!

 

[reverse cosmosis]

So I always wondered what is consciousness? Is it some magical thing like a soul that exists outside of our corporeal form? Seems unlikely to me. So what are we?

What if consciousness as we know it is merely the vibrational energy of the cells that make up our physical bodies? If so when we die and rot in a hole in the ground what happens then?

Maybe our consciousness is divided and becomes part of the bacterium, plants, earthworms etc that consume our nutrients as we break down and decay. Maybe if we are immolated in a crematorium the parts of what make us ourselves are scattered to the wind and are consumed by fungi, settle on the ocean floor or inhaled by a fat guy riding a scooter.

I can only hope. I've watched way too many videos from page 403 of the hub while shooting a mixture of speed and plasterboard I've plucked out of my mate's carpet with a pair of tweezers to be going to the good place if the god botherers have got it right.

 

[CFC]

I voted 'other' for 'I don't know'. I think we probably just stop living, because we're just empty biological robots. But who knows?

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Universe or planet I wonder. I think we go back to where we came from as energy rather than conscious beings.

My existential belief system is basically the plot of final fantasy 7.

Short lecture on the study of planetology from the original:


And the remake:

 

[4DQSAR]

Wait, we get to choose?

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Wait, we get to choose?

Maybe we do.

Fuck knows what happens in your brain in the seconds before you die. It could subjectively be years, or decades, or whatever fucked up concept of time you dream up before you die. If you want to believe in a heaven maybe you just dream one up and get to experience it for what feels like forever. Or maybe you just go dark and that’s it.

Death’s fun to talk about. It’s all hypothetical anyway nobody gets the chance to report back so might as well believe in whatever makes you happy.

 

[foodcrisis]

your spirit energy floats around and gets stuck as different objects until you find a new body some where in the universe. with all the time spent floating around, most people don't remember their previous lives with all the time they spent as germs or furniture or whatever... it's kind of like chucky... being furniture or a germ is like being on salvia or high dose tripping.

no i have no idea. but smoking salvia made me think this could be a possibility.. but then again we could just die and return to a place that is more one than different spirits.. i obviously do not know.. could be nothing happens too. there is no soul or anything...

i really get the feeling people are made up from different energies, but this could just be something that exists only in life. the same kind of spirit comes back in humans. doesn't mean that they are connected or whatever. the certain energies probably respond similarly to certain stuff in life though.. like i feel like people's voices are partly cause of how they are raised, but it seems like there is some natural thing that people just sound a specific way and have a certain amount of energy.

 

[4DQSAR]

Maybe we do.

Fuck knows what happens in your brain in the seconds before you die. It could subjectively be years, or decades, or whatever fucked up concept of time you dream up before you die.

That is my own personal belief. Time essenitally slows down to a complete stop before you lose consciousness.

Of course, that presumes a death over a protracted period. I've been witness to violent death and as well as being heartbreaking, it's often the terror on the face that suggest that final moment is not peaceful.

I have my exit stratergy in place. Boxes and boxes of prescribed opioids that I have slowly saved up over the years. Being sustained-release formulations should at least provide a relaxing end.

I'm not quite as bad as Hunter S. Thompson who, accoring to Raplh Steadman, only have one fear. Being put in a position where he couldn't end his own life at the moment of his choosing. A crazy guy but interesting.

 

[ghostandthedarkness]

you get your own thread in The Bluelight Shrine.

 

[paltatomate]

Voted "other", but...

Where do I begin?

 

[chippermonk]

I think I just break up and dissipate as a bunch of random atoms.
But the good news is that I don't have to read the news anymore!

 

[4DQSAR]

you get your own thread in The Bluelight Shrine.

No - I don't want to be remembered.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Of course, that presumes a death over a protracted period. I've been witness to violent death and as well as being heartbreaking, it's often the terror on the face that suggest that final moment is not peaceful

A peaceful death may well be the key to a peaceful afterlife. But your subconscious could have the bigger say over whatever’s at the front of your mind at the time it happens. Imagine if a chronically neurotic and anxious person ended up conjuring their own personal hell. That’s a scary thought.

Voted "other", but...

Where do I begin?

Could be a fun thread!

No - I don't want to be remembered.

I do!

 

[chippermonk]

A peaceful death may well be the key to a peaceful afterlife. But your subconscious could have the bigger say over whatever’s at the front of your mind at the time it happens. Imagine if a chronically neurotic and anxious person ended up conjuring their own personal hell. That’s a scary thought.

Could be a fun thread!

Maybe a good incentive to die in a state of drug-induced euphoria. Trouble with that is that I'm worried that regardless of how one pulls the plug, there will be a fearful awareness and anticipation of the end, as you know it's coming.
Personally, I have always ascribed to the Coyote and Roadrunner theory of a good death: peacefully hiking down a beautiful canyon when suddenly an anvil comes down and squashes you instantly flat.

 

[4DQSAR]

Maybe a good incentive to die in a state of drug-induced euphoria.

The vuglar term for that is hedonism but in fact part of the philosopical school of Epicureanism states that pleasure is the sole purpose of life.

It's my opinion that the school was a reaction to the earlier school of Stoicism. Both being found around 300BCE.

 

[neversickanymore]

I have had one or possibly more near death experiences. Most of the time people don't remember their first.. or rather they are much more likely to remember their second. The experiences are uncanny similar and this is well documented. What I find extremely interesting is the reported experiences of the subjects of the IV DMT experiments. They report "being away" and having "thousands of years" of existence.

If they are experiencing thousands of years of existence in 10 to 15 minutes then what could a person experience at their death. DMT is correlated to our death events. Just food for thought as I haven't thought about this in awhile.. need to come back to it and am certainly still considering a major DMT trip.

From my NDE.. This is not our first rolercoster.. I think we have been on a whole bunch. They are different I think.. maybe all of them.

 

[4DQSAR]

There is a hypothesis that just before death the body produces DMT and/or 5MeODMT.

Not sure if anyone has ever tested brain samples of a recently decased person to test it if occurs.

 

[neversickanymore]

There is a hypothesis that just before death the body produces DMT and/or 5MeODMT.

Not sure if anyone has ever tested brain samples of a recently decased person to test it if occurs.

initially, I stand corrected.. I thought levels had been checked at the period of death.. im going to dig deeper, but looks like your right.

DMT Models the Near-Death Experience - PMC

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are complex subjective experiences, which have been previously associated with the psychedelic experience and more specifically with the experience induced by the potent serotonergic, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[4DQSAR]

initially, I stand corrected.. I thought levels had been checked at the period of death.. im going to dig deeper, but looks like your right.

DMT Models the Near-Death Experience - PMC

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are complex subjective experiences, which have been previously associated with the psychedelic experience and more specifically with the experience induced by the potent serotonergic, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

I said I wasn't sure, but go ahead, it would be interesting to know one way or the other.

 

[neversickanymore]

I said I wasn't sure, but go ahead, it would be interesting to know one way or the other.

Something we can consider.. we obviously don't know yet.. cool stuff though right?

Biosynthesis and Extracellular Concentrations of N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in Mammalian Brain - Scientific Reports

N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a psychedelic compound identified endogenously in mammals, is biosynthesized by aromatic-L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) and indolethylamine-N-methyltransferase (INMT). Whether DMT is biosynthesized in the mammalian brain is unknown. We investigated brain...

www.nature.com