What happens when you die?

[IamMe90]

I'd say it's really hard for anyone to have any concrete beliefs about what happens after death, we all just have our conjectures and hunches.

Personally, I feel like it is a possibility that Schopenhauer is right that there is some basic noumenal level of reality that we all possess (but perhaps not will) and that the entire universe and everything in it is a manifestation of that noumenal reality. Under that theory, maybe the noumenal reality never really changes while the phenomenal manifestation of it is rearranging itself based on its own laws. So we won't be the same "us" but we might still be in some sense after death anyway. I dunno, I'm pretty high.

 

[slimvictor]

I like this Rumi poem that answers the question:

On the day I die, when I’m being carried
toward the grave, don’t weep. Don’t say,

He’s gone! He’s gone. Death has nothing
to do with going away. The sun sets and

the moon sets, but they’re not gone.
Death is a coming together. The tomb

looks like a prison, but it’s really
release into union. The human seed goes

down in the ground like a bucket into
the well where Joseph is. It grows and

comes up full of some unimagined beauty.
Your mouth closes here and immediately

opens with a shout of joy there.