What do you think happens when you die?

You just die. But eventually, over a few hundred years, part of you (a very small part, a few atoms) end up in everybody else.

That is what is states in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' anyway.
 
Death is not the end. Or rather, it is.

I actually firmly believe that you just get reborn. As yourself. On the same date. And you live your life in exactly the same way over and over again. Forever. :eek:
 
I believe in physics. Energy cant be destroyed, And so the bodies energy must then transform.

This does not mean afterlife or ghost, It just means we will exist after death. Just in a different state. One of no sentience.
 
wannabedamned said:
I believe in physics. Energy cant be destroyed, And so the bodies energy must then transform.

This does not mean afterlife or ghost, It just means we will exist after death. Just in a different state. One of no sentience.
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Yeah, that state is called 'heat', and it dissipates immediately into the surrounding universe. Utterly negligible.
 
Lysander said:
I also firmly believe I have led a very very similar human existence to this one before.
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Cool does that mean there's a chance you were once living when Julius Caesar was in existence, or if he reincarnated maybe he's living with us today!:o

Also explain why the population is rising if we're all just reincarnated, or maybe it's balancing out because some other animal is dying out.
 
Nothing.

Pretty much like sleeping, except you don't dream.

Pointless even thinking about it, sounds boring.
 
coughs said:
Turning into a Lion doesn't seem boring to me!!

according to Lysander
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Why would you die and become a lion?

You think you die and go to some shiny gates where a man is stood with a big wheel, he spins it and you get what comes up on the wheel?

"Congratulations! You're a crab!"

"Oh great! I love the sea!!"

"no, no sorry, You're going to be clinging from a ball sack"

I just don't see it.... You die, there's no way you'd come back as a different life form, There's just no way for it to happen.
It's just fiction, humanisation of a natural event.
 
Robosapien said:
A bit of William Shakespeare makes up my sperm cells. It's all true.
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In my case it may be partially true :P part of my ancestory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sidney


As for the OP - what always makes me wonder... how can we be sentient when we are made up of non-sentient components. The parts we are made up of would still go through the motions without an awarness of self... yet we have an awareness of self.
 
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Rroff said:
As for the OP - what always makes me wonder... how can we be sentient when we are made up of non-sentient components. The parts we are made up of would still go through the motions without an awarness of self... yet we have an awareness of self.
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It's because we're an evolved chemical reaction, with an interest in self-propagation. It pays to have an awareness of self. It is simply a highly complex mechanism evolved over time.

I would further add, highly opinionated of course, that our own perception of our own self-awareness, is simply an illusion, much like our identity (merely enabling social interaction (and in turn propagation, as said above), that springs forth from actually taking part in our own subtely unique experience of life in our particular strand/species of this evolved chemical reaction.

We have no real desires of our own, it's all just a tiny leap from the way atoms exchange electrons, tainted by our condition. Albeit distortions will inevitably arise, and who knows where it all leads. Eventually nowhere of course, but it could be interesting along the way.
 
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