Where do we go when we are dead?

Back into the earth. Where we came from

Nulle part.

Nowhere. Live life now. Enjoy it.

Why are straight me so stupid?

You will find out

Toledo.

Florida

If you don't die in a state of mortal sin, you go home to be with the Lord.

Either a box in the ground, or an open flame oven. Heaven is make believe(not real).

dust to dust

We turn into ants

Actually, we become a garden. Mushrooms growin our stomach.

Don't know. Don't care.

Let's ask Donald Trump to investigate this for us.

The next life. Ask a billion people in southern Asia. Or read the experiments done by the Yale doctor.

This life means nothing, who cares about "the next"

Thought I'd interject some wise thoughts on this very somber subject:

-Probably the saddest thing you'll ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend. -When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandpa did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car. -I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life? -I just read a list of "The 100 Things To Do Before You Die". I was pretty surprised that "Yell for help" wasn't one of them.

Why we go to Grossinger's, silly.

I shall be cremated in an oven.

I like to believe there'll be nothing and me as a conscious individual ceases to exist. I admit I'm saying that as a person who's not happy with his life and is many times depressed.

I don't find any of the religious after death scenarios I've read something I want to have. I grew up in a Christian home, thankfully very secular but I still learnt enough of Jesus and the Bible. One of the only times I've almost had a panic attack was as a kid when I was thinking about the paradise and how it would go on forever and forever and forever. I still remember the utter horror that idea gave me. Everything would be the same always and forever.

I'm not liking the reborn theories either. I haven't looked that much into it but I watched a documentary about Tibetan Book of Death, which is apparently about what happens with your consciousness between your death and the time you will be born again. Gloomy stuff. I mean not necessarily a hell like but the whole idea of an endless cycle of lives just feels exhausting. Especially if you're only being born to this fucking planet.

So I hope when I die my consciousness dies as well.

Winnipeg.

[quote] Winnipeg.

Hell would be preferable over Winnipeg !

I don't know why the religions haven't ever made the connection to the fact that since we know the Sun is going to burn out eventually the Earth will not go on forever and ever and therefore we can't live on it forever and ever.

However ghosts...what are they? Obviously something more than a time loop as some of them interact.

I watched Sam Harris recently talk about how people thought being "gone" after they are dead is so hard to imagine. His response was that right now, in Paris, London, Hong Kong, Springfield - anywhere we you are not - life is still going on and you are not part of it.

At any time in history prior to your birth, you were not part of it. We don't have any feelings of remorse or regret of not being alive in other cities or in prior times and it does not affect us - nor does it affect the people currently living in the cities where you do not live.

I had never thought of it that way. Not saying it's terribly intellectual - but it does provide some perspective.

I expect to live in a tree, making sandwich cookies.

I'm kind of hoping it isn't Winnipeg.

R25, what's "sandwich cookies", precious? What's "sandwich cookies"?

Aren't Oreos a kind of sandwich cookie?

Being in an Oreo threesome is how you LIVE!

Louie CK

The ground.

Russian syndicated TV

I wonder sometimes. Life has never been easy for me and I'm ok with the lights out end. Then I think of a immense the universe is, how little we know, and maybe we are a simulation?

I'm going to Disneyland!

I'm having my ashes scattered on Matt Bomer.

A crematorium out past the county line where there are no air quality rules.

[quote] I'm having my ashes scattered on Matt Bomer.

They'll make good fertilizer.

Maybe I'll donate my body to one of those body farms where they let bodies decompose so they can gain forensic knowledge. When you die, your energy is extinguished if you get cremated or if you get embalmed and sealed in a coffin. But if you allow your body to return to nature, then your body provides energy for other living things and it enriches the earth. I'd like for a worm to feast on me, then get eaten by a bird. The bird can then feed its nestlings with a bit of me.

Or a maggot that dined on me can turn into a fly and visit trees and flowers and dog poop and have a great life and then get eaten by a frog.

I don't want to waste my energy and nutrition. I want to give life. And then, when the insects or birds or frogs that eat me poop out my waste, it fertilizes the earth. Plant a tree where I decomposed and I will feed its roots.

this is the end cheapens life!!!

Cleveland. You go to Cleveland, Rose.

We go to Rio!!!

[quote]The ground.

The ecologically conscious choose cremation.

I have hope that there is an afterlife. Call it Heaven, Nirvana, whatever. I know folks who went to Sunday School and Catechism class as children heard the stories about how nothing goes on there. But I believe we finally find true, unconditional love, which is we all seem to want, but somehow we're never fully satisfied. I know that religious belief is unpopular on this forum, and having experienced my own nightmarish collisions with organized religion, I don't blame you at all. But I happen to be a Christian Universalist, and I believe we will all experience true happiness at some point. God is love.

I imagine it's like falling out of consciousness. You just drift off and into blackness and don't come back. It's over. Done. Adios. Bye Bye.

They you decay in the earth into nothing and the earth recycles you and eventually, the earth too will be gone and let's face it..... We don't really matter in any way, shape or form.

R38 I love the way you romanticized the whole rotting corpse thing.There are videos on YouTube about the Body Farm which are pretty graphic.

Most scientists believe in parallel universes, so we probably cross over into another universe when we die.

I don't know and don't care but I want to take Ann Coulter with me.

I'm with you, r47

You go where you believe you are going to go. Atheists end. Christians go on, for better or worse.

Heaven ... And heaven is a place where nothing ... nothing ever happens.

Reincarnation.

Heaven is a place on earth.

Into the ground. Then those who were good end up in Bora Bora with 72 hot, hunky twinks. Those who were bad end up as females in Teheran.

[quote]I don't know why the religions haven't ever made the connection to the fact that since we know the Sun is going to burn out eventually the Earth will not go on forever and ever and therefore we can't live on it forever and ever.

That's because the religions were established well before we understood how the solar system works. Their ideas about paradise and the great hereafter are too deeply ingrained to change them now that we know that the earth will eventually go poof.

Countries that bury their dead have rich soil and greenery. Countries that burn their dead or have sky burials or dump bodies in sacred rivers have poor soil.

Yeah, I know they have sky burials because the ground is too rocky for burial.

But millions of years of burying unembalmed bodies in paltry, easily deteriorating wood coffins enrich the earth.

Also -- countries that rely in goats for a good portion of their diet have poor soil and sparse vegetation because the goats don't allow anything to grow. So all the bushes and seedlings are devoured by goats and the Earth gets blown away and eroded. Don't eat goats. They'll destroy the environment.

Why believe in things that make it tough on you?

-DEVO

Reincarnation. But a lot of shit happens in between, and that is actually very nearby. So you don't go far. Also, "where" is literally a state of mind.

Nowhere, we'll be absorbed into the ground like any other animal. I held out hope for an afterlife to be reunited with my beloved mother, but I don't believe it anymore. She's gone forever, and I'll be gone forever in 20 yrs or so.

Our bodies go back to earth or ash. Those of us who have souls go to Heaven or Hell. Those who don't have souls just cease to exist. Too bad their big mouths don't go before the rest of their bodies do.

Of course the special snowflakes live on forever and ever, they're so special after all.

I believe our energy force or soul, returns to the collective energy around us. Our bodies are shedded and becomes part of the physical world again (dirt, ash, minerals). We return to the universe ( for lack of a better word) bigger than we came and we are at peace because we no longer feel attached to the world we knew as true.

After you are dead, you go into the ground. Worm food. That's it. The END. No going back. No taking it over. Finished. No more. For Eternity.

Fresno

R59 We all have 'souls' you twat bag. You sound fifteen.

R59 is an idiot. It has no soul—none of us do.

I hope that many posters here get reincarnated. Because they still have a lot to learn.

See you all at Carousel.

Calvin: Where do we go when we die?

Hobbes: Pittsburgh

Calvin: If we're good? Or Bad?

For fucks sake this is DL and no one has mentioned a Viking funeral or something quiet like Diana had...

R69 The thread is about the destination. Not the piss-up/send-off before.

Apologies, it's these new dentures. Meanwhile where were we before we came here? Surely equally valid and poignant a question, non?

R71 I know I was happily knocking back a few down at the local, when all of the sudden, I felt a buzz in my ears, everything blurred around me and I passed out. Next thing I remember is some huge fuckwit in white giving me a good smack on my bum. And it's been downhill ever since.

I'm not religious but still think this is an interesting question. There's much more to existence than we will ever be able to comprehend. We don't know why life exists, and while I'm not certainly saying it was created by a God or similar, or is "sacred," there still is a mysterious aspect to life that many people dismiss a little too easily. We currently exist in this form but we don't know why, so I'm not just going to say I have all the answers and know there's nothing more than we perceive.

not certainly should be certainly not

Where do we go when we are dead?

Well, we can't "go" anywhere if we are dead.

Do you mean where does consciousness go when the body is dead?

It doesn't go anywhere because it never left.

It will be revealed to us when we are ready...humans are too limited to comprehend this truth.

In the meantime, be kind to others. It will come back to you eventually.

Oliver) Reincorseration?

Lisa) Yes, you know when you die and come back as an animal

Oliver) You mean reincarnation

Lisa) No, that's when you come back as a flower

Into the atmosphere, into the ether; come back as someone/something else.

it will depend on your standard vibratory. The lower is your soul frequence, the lower will be the proper dimension for you.

the good news is that we can change our vibration before leaving this body.

Walk toward the light!

The only scientifically plausible (and wildly speculative) option is that we keep living our own lives over and over and over again...

And that scientifically plausible explanation is not far from the Catholic idea of Purgatory. I don't believe in heaven or hell but I sure do believe in the place in between, where most of us reside. I don't think we love by accident and I don't think that energy dies, but I know the body does and believe that consciousness rests. For thousands of years this is the question of man. Just because religion has less control over some lives does not stop the question. A child has this question when they know nothing. Where did they go when they are gone?

To Penisland

No where. There is nothing after you die. It's like turning off a light.

Schenectady, Rose!

You go to the New Datalounge.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, "I'm not scared of dying. I was dead billion of years before i was born."

you better pray you go to Heaven, once judgement day happens. until then you will be at rest.

[quote]Schenectady, Rose!

Please, NO!

I'm coming to your place, OP.

Boca

Ok R75 You may as well just tell us poor, ignorant humans what it's all about

R78 I think you are spot on there. We are and will remain one energy i believe.

We go to Datalounge, OP.

We go back to our alien spaceship.

Since many seem to KNOW, yet nobody can prove what happens to us after we die, we all should believe whatever gets us through the night.

[quote]you better pray you go to Heaven, once judgement day happens. until then you will be at rest.

Liar!

R55 is right. If you've ever dug ground in a cemetery, it's the richest soil I've ever seen in nature. I don't mean deep below ground, just the top 5". Too bad we can't grow food on it (today).

R1 But what is Earth?

Heaven or hell, with a possible stop in purgatory. Energy isn't not created or destroyed.

Into the trees and everything. But where does it all go when The World ends? With an eternity of chance, could the same configuration of energy and matter and resulting awareness happen again? You wouldn't know if ten millennium had passed by in between or all your stuff had traveled through existence, The universe, until all the conditions were right for you to exist again. And I'm not saying there's no God.

Those who will scream at you and argue with you about how they found the one true way to live in joy and bliss forever are usually the same ones who have a hard time not being bored on a weekend.

r101, life is short!!! LOL

Star dust. It's what we were and what we will be again.

You're already dead.

This is Hell.

R91, well....r104 is kind of correct, except hell doesn't exist. So we are somewhere that doesn't exist...we are in a dream. Maybe a nightmare...where we think to wake up is to die. It does end the dream, but it doesn't end us.

This world is an illusion. The sooner we recognize that, the sooner we see through it.

When the ground starts shaking...run!

Jesus said ,in heaven there's not that much to do.

Yup, r106. It's all about Being. We need do nothing.

Where do bad folks go when they die?

They don't go to heaven where the angels fly

They go to a lake of fire and fry

Won't see 'em again til the fourth of July!

6 feet under

Fargo, North Dakota. There's not much to do but the people are [italic]awfully[/italic] nice.

Darkness. Or, Bayonne. Depending on how you've lived your life. It's too late to do anything over.

Judgment City! And the food there sounds very good.

They dump your soul in Red Hook.

It's like those green warp tunnels in Mario, unless you get a 1up.

And I'm sure you will share in my dismay as we discover the many roles played by Donald Trump in our afterlife.

Joseph Campbell who studied all the religions and their mythologies and associated "rituals" , even he was stumped for an answer to life after death. He said live now, all we have is now. Beyond that he couldn't say or imagine.

I asked someone a month how he felt or what he "saw" when his mother passed a few years ago. He said he saw like a ball or orb brightly lit fly out of the hospital room. It stuck with me because when the wife of George Harrison was asked by a journalist what she experienced at George's passing and she said "the whole room lit up." I thought she was embellishing something or grieving and now I'm not so sure.

shout out to kayne for doingawesone at the vmas and i hope he picks mylie as his vice for pres in 2016.

Since the crematorium violates air quality ordinances, probably out to a country town that doesn't have air quality ordinances.

Dirt nap.

"I want to know ... my lovely .... Where do we go?"

After everything I've experienced, I'm thinking we go into another dimension.

[R43] I love your answer.

I hope that the afterlife is like a big classroom where we learn from our mistakes, learn about why certain things happened to us, both the good and the bad. I hope we learn to understand ourselves and others better. After we are done learning we move into the next life or alternate universe or higher consciousness or whatever you want to call it.

There's a good section of reddit called glitch in the matrix that has a lot of interesting stories relating to alternative realties. If you can sort through the crap you can find some amazing stories.

Does it really matter? I mean, you'll be...dead.

There better not be any "heaven." The idea of another life where my deceased relatives are waiting for me is way is truly horrible.

[quote]Where do we go when we are dead?

Dancing With the Stars

I’m going to heaven. Can’t speak for the rest of you all.

To the Soylent Factory, of course!

We go to Patterson, NJ

We go to the same "place" we were before we were born.

[QUOTE]We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Mar-A-Lago

Heaven!

"Where do we go when we are dead?"

Well, aren't you at Mar-a Lago, Trump?

Some of the near death experiences are interesting. There are tons on YouTube. We don’t understand much about the universe, who knows? Has anyone on here experienced any after death contacts from loved ones?

I'll be heading over to Rainbow Bridge, where every pet I ever loved will rush to greet me.

I believe that right after you die a person's spirit or soul, or whatever hangs around for a while, kind of getting used to being dead. Then they sort of just...go away. Poof!

I'm going to heaven. I don't know about the rest of you ignorant whores. But I'll pray for you all to join me.

I sincerely need a long rest after all this chaos so I am fine with the switch flipping and I just cease to exist.

What is this, "Bump Threads from 2015 Day"?

The last excel cell

Just don't send me to the San Fernando Valley. TIA

I think I might know.

Humans are over 60% water. Water, if given half a chance, will evaporate, and depending on the circumstances, might even divide into its component parts, oxygen and hydrogen. The remainder of the elements and minerals of the body include calcium (bones), carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, magnesium, and the like. The atoms of the body eventually dissipate, either quickly or slowly, depending on the type of burial. Because of gravity, the vast majority of the atoms in our bodies are recycled from past animals, plants, insects, lichens, bacteria, etc. But even before any of those living organisms, the atoms that make up our physical forms originally rained down on the planet from stardust - stars that exploded relatively near the earth spewed their atoms into space and some of those atoms rained down on the earth. Those stardust bits were enriched by the explosions that generated them, and gave the variety of elements to construct life forms , that the earth would not have had otherwise. It's cool to think that we are all stardust. Whether reincarnation exists as a metaphysical state is unknowable, but there is no doubt that we are reborn in thousands, if not millions of ways, after our deaths. When we are alive, what appears solid to other people are atoms that are mostly hollow - atoms that create unique vibration patterns as they interact with other atoms in our bodies. Those vibration patterns are our "auras" and they do affect the people around us, and subtly change their vibratory patterns. So, to the extent that we interact with other people, we have affected them and the changes that our vibration patterns have made on them will exist after our deaths. Physicists say that 99.99999% of our bodies are made up of EMPTY space. To me, all of that is much more fascinating and mind-blowing that some imaginary heaven. Much more like "the matrix" than like "Paradise Lost".