[The_Last_Melon]

Heaven/hell?
Reincarnation?
Something else?

[bytail]

Nothing. I imagine it to be like passing out - you don't know you've passed out until you wake up, but in this instance, you'll never wake up.

[chickenonsteroids]

Nothing. Your consciousness just ceases. I don't think I want anything to happen after death either.

[HurricaneDominic]

I really have no idea. Right now I'd like to hope reincarnation is the answer.

[Carrby]

Nothing. Your brain just stops, everything stops, and eventually you start to decompose

[super_kawaii]

Reincarnation

[College_Dropout]

You become a Sim.

[chickenonsteroids]

(Original post by College_Dropout)
You become a Sim.

But what if we're already sims and when we die someone has just deleted us?

[College_Dropout]

(Original post by chickenonsteroids)
But what if we're already sims and when we die someone has just deleted us?

Then i will be deemed a murderer! The countless amount of Sims i have put in the swimming pool and then deleted the stairs to get out, resulting in there death.

[E.Blackadder]

pretty much the same thing that happens to us before we are conceived.

[pseudonymegg]

[savetheplanet]

I'd like to think rebirth. Somehow, although the thought of your body and brain ceasing to work sounds realistic, I don't think that's the end of the story. I find it hard to believe that consciousness just ceases to exist.

[Phaethon]

As a dualist, I think death is an illusion, and that somehow consciousness survives the body's decomposition. However I have no clue of what happens once that's over...

[AverageExcellence]

Surely its the same as before you were born? you just won't be in existance anymore. I mean it sounds a little grim perhaps, but do you really want to exist FOREVER? i mean even if you went to 'heaven' then surely just existing and having no purpose would be maddening. If you go on holiday at a 5* luxury resort you want to go home and resume life eventually. Its just not logical

[Mequa]

I see no evidence for an afterlife, although annihilation of consciousness is also something impossible to comprehend.

I prefer not to "fill in the blanks" with what is most likely false hope, personally.


David Hume had a good argument against consciousness surviving death:

THE Physical arguments from the analogy of nature are strong for the mortality of the soul, and are really the only philosophical arguments which ought to be admitted with regard to this question, or indeed any question of fact. -- Where any two objects are so closely connected that all alterations which we have ever seen in the one, are attended with proportionable alterations in the other; we ought to conclude by all rules of analogy, that, when there are still greater alterations produced in the former, and it is totally dissolved, there follows a total dissolution of the latter. -- Sleep, a very small effect on the body, is attended with a temporary extinction, at least a great confusion in the soul. -- The weakness of the body and that of the mind in infancy are exactly proportioned, their vigour in manhood, their sympathetic disorder in sickness; their common gradual decay in old age. The step further seems unavoidable; their common dissolution in death. The last symptoms which the mind discovers are disorder, weakness, insensibility, and stupidity, the fore-runners of its annihilation. The farther progress of the same causes encreasing, the same effects totally extinguish it. Judging by the usual analogy of nature, no form can continue when transferred to a condition of life very different from the original one, in which it was placed. Trees perish in the water, fishes in the air, animals in the earth. Even so small a difference as that of climate is often fatal. What reason then to imagine, that an immense alteration, such as is made on the soul by the dissolution of its body and all its organs of thought and sensation, can be effected without the dissolution of the whole? Every thing is in common betwixt soul and body. The organs of the one are all of them the organs of the other. The existence therefore of the one must be dependant on that of the other. -- The souls of animals are allowed to be mortal; and these bear so near a resemblance to the souls of men, that the analogy from one to the other forms a very strong argument. Their bodies are not more resembling; yet no one rejects the argument drawn from comparative anatomy.

Furthermore, it is clear that brain damage can destroy consciousness. Why assume it will return after death, or that brain death doesn't have the same effect?

Denial is stronger than reason in many people though. Assuming dualism of body and soul is to ignore the "constant conjunction" as described by Hume, or apply special pleading when it comes to the end of life. A somewhat counter-empirical view.

Life after death can only be believed on blind faith which points directly against what the evidence suggests. I have an allergic reaction to that, I don't want to believe in what reason strongly suggests is an illusion. Sure, it might make some people feel better, but with my inability to believe it I cannot share those positive affective benefits from it. As for the proportion of people who do believe in an afterlife - truth is not democratic. For those who say it must be believed as the alternative is too depressing to handle, I say "rubbish".

So I am left with coping with grim reality rather than trying to deny it, an approach much like the Stoics.

[ESPORTIVA]

NOTHING will happen, just like before you were born.

[Pinkhead]

Hopefully I will stop being concious.
I wouldn't like it any other way either.

[steeler4life]

post mortem
burial/cremation

[Tochai]

Pizza Party.