Hi all
This is not meant to be morbid or argumentative. I repect everyone will have very different views and please don’t post if you think this this too personal. I am I intrigued to know what people think/ believe happens to us after death. I used to have strong faith but it has gradually drifted away. I will not be upset by answers like - nothing you are worm food. I genuinely just would like to know what people believe. Maybe I might find some inspiration.
Debx
dust to dust ashes to ashes into the worm into the bird into the cat into the dog into tin meat back into human…
I do believe that we live life on through the genes in our children and that i often see mannerisms etc in my children that relate to other family members.
Hi
Interesting idea.
My view of death is that it’s the same as not being born. I can’t remember not being born therefore i won’t know i’m dead. When asleep i’m unaware of myself and this is what i think it will be.
Death is not the option i aim to take at the moment, but having had Death turn up, sit in my living room and share a pot of tea it is something I’ve had to really consider. We had a chat and he has agreed to return in about 50 years.
Thanks for your ideas so far ladies.
I suppose this does come from the fact that we have had our mortality brought into focus. Hopefully we will have sent death packing for a good long while.
Any more thoughts?
Debx
Ive told everybody that im going to a massive party in the sky. Whilst they are all down here sorting out my masses of clothes and shoes I will be dancing barefoot with a bacardi and coke in hand!! Its an image that makes me and my kids smile and one that I hope sticks with them when im really not here. xx
After I die, I’ve told my lot not to bother with a party for me because I won’t be there, but have a party for them. And make the funeral as cheap as they can get away with to avoid wasting the money. Cremation’s cheaper so go for that, and just chuck what’s left away. (Don’t know why the crem won’t dispose of ashes, I had my ex stuck in the shed for a couple of months until I was able to get rid of him to his sisters.)
I believe that I will continue to exist in their memories, but I won’t know anything about it because I’ll be dead and the thing that was me and that was able to think won’t exist any more. There will be a lump of meat left, but what was me won’t be in it any more, and if it’d be of any use to anyone else, they can feel free to give the bits away. Not sure how much use it’ll be to the medical industry as a wrinkled corpse of 110, maybe geriatrics would find a use for it!
It’s the worm food option for me.I can see how some people get comfort from their faith,but oh my goodness,I don’t want to be stuck somewhere where loads of dead family and other people I have known are, would be my idea of hell ! Jeez if I didn’t get on with them when I was alive sure as hell won’t when we are all dead.Shuddering at the thought…am sure it would be the big fire for me if that was the case anyway.
Im very simplistic,once you are dead you are dead,end of,but who knows…just hoping I don’t find out for a long time yet !
Hi all, interesting thread.
My view is that all that I was, physically, will decompose and become useful in a biological, lifecycle kind of way, and that, ultimately, I will be dispersed into the universe and recycled into the mass that makes up stars, black holes, galaxies or even just the vast emptyish space inbetween … All that I was internally will be remembered by family and friends. And like hatty I think that there is a good smattering of me in my lovely daughter.
I have no faith.
alison x
i truly believe i will join my hubby and parents and lost friends and family my brother had a near death experience where he had an amzing vision of his friend who died days before (from same accident)his friend was in bright light calling to him and my brother said he felt so peaceful and really tried to go but could hear woman crying (our mom at his bedside)the vision went and thank god he pulled through he is not a religious person but even after 31 yrs the experience is vivid.i believe and hope that there is something after for us .
Deb, deb, deb, deb, deb, deb, deb. Hoping this thread is academic to stretch your mind on a tedious aprils fools day rather than being indicative of a fast downhill track to depression central?
That said, I’ll try and answer. I’m not sure about God anymore, though it would be lovely to believe and have faith. I think many people dealt a rubbish hand, like we have been, question their faith. I think my dad is somewhere watching over me and feel him around but i dont know if thats real or coming from inside me. I sort of agree that you continue to be here through the people who knew and loved you.
Why not have a chat with a friendly priest? Might help you get yout head straighter about it. Or try the vodka route.
Hugs
vickie
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Hi everyone, I think when you die it is as it was before you were born…Liz xxxxx
Hi
Vickie, Dont worry I don’t think I am on that slippery slope yet. No, more curious than anything. This question was a lot easier a few years ago. Now I am not sure what I think or feel. Thank you all for sharing your feelings. I have not clear idea of a heaven, but find it difficult to believe that we, or people we love just stop.
Anymore thoughts?
Debx
The only person who gives reliable information on “after you die” is Jesus as reported in the New Testament…
I don’t believe anything but I’ve had some pretty weird experiences. I have seen my grandmother in my bedroom, she was wearing her tweed coat and carrying her shopping bag. I’ve seen my mother’s old cleaner in my bedroom, but as a young woman. I’ve smelled my grandfather, I know it was him. There are more like this but I still don’t believe in an afterlife. I don’t disbelieve in one either. Having said that and just re read what I’ve written, I think I was diagnosed because of ‘someone up there looking after me’. I had no symptoms but when I drove to see my mother, 4 hours away, I had a pain in my left breast for 2 days. Pain went and didn’t come back. I phoned doc and now I’m here. I think the pain was sent to make me go and get sorted out. My surgeon couldn’t feel anything, my mammogram didn’t show anything, only the scan picked something up. Dread to think what would have happened if I’d had routine mammogram, which was due, and hadn’t had the pain. Who knows. Am I mad or just slightly bonkers?
I am convinced that we go completely on death. Anaesthesia for surgery is so effective that the time we are ‘out’ has gone forever and as if it were never there. One moment you are conversing, the next you are waking up. If anaesthesia can do that, then death is just an extension of that. Once the brain is dead, then there is nothing else. Many believe there is something after death but I can’t believe that is true. I once read that there are more people alive now than all the people who have ever died. That would rule out reincarnation too.
Sue
As far as I’m concerned this is it! life is for living and IF there is some sort of creator I am sure he/she/it is not personally interested in me!
I am not at all worried about dying…its what you do with your one and only precious life that matters xx
Oh…and my background is from a family of evangelical christians!!!
I believe that when we are dead that is it, we just decay and return to dust or whatever. I too want a very simple funeral/or whatever - cardboard coffin will be fine.
I believe we do live on, but only in the hearts of those we leave behind. I’m not planning on going anytime yet though- too much living and dancing to do first.
I don’t know what I believe but ‘nothing’ seems too easy for me.
Vx
There are a lot of ’ nothings’ out there it seems. Anyone else believe in ‘something’ want to share their thoughts? I know faith needs to fly in the face of logic at times, but I personally like a bit of diversity in thinking and would value all opinions.
Again thanks to those who have posted already.
Maybe bc mostly happens to non believers? Quick call the daily mail! ( joke!)
Debx
That made me laugh, Midge.