What happens after you die?

Here's my prediction:

OK - blood stops reaching the brain. Dead. You start to drift off.

You go into a dream state. Your "last days" are prolonged with this - your brain may only be functioning 1-2 minutes more, but this stretches into an eternity to you.

Eventually, you get less and less conscious as your brain shuts off the lights and locks the door.

The end.

This is, of course, the case if your brain is still intact. Your head explodes and its the end that much sooner.

then you surf!

so nobody knows.

We were talking about real life.

Then explain Matthew 27:52-53

Sure sounds like zombies to me. Are you saying that this event for which there is no independent historical account didn't actually happen?

...just the lazy, shiftless ones. :hide:

You know, a house cat. :D

It wasn't so bad.

Gotta love the man - he was a closet Atheist!

wait for the next line out that fits the destination for our soul; then jump on the bus and enjoy another ride of life.....recycling is a favorite of the Almighty.O8)

the experience being different for each person, and very much based upon their belief system and emotional state at the time.

Sure, your brain starts playing movies. But what's happening to you REALLY?

and depends upon the belief system and emotional state of the individual at the time. One account of dying I read years ago was called "I Died Three Times", the account of a person who was declared clinically dead three times due to a reaction to penicillin. They treated the experience as a wonderful adventure, saying it was fascinating to feel sensations ebb, especially the teeth. With them, the process was gradual, and, obviously, was reversed. But my overall impression was one of fascination and awe with the process. And no, there was no mention of beings of Light, etc--it was a description of the physical changes as the body shut down. I do not recall whether the person was conscious through all of it or whether the awareness was at another level--I'd have to go back and find the article, which, if memory serves, was written in the 1970s, and obviously left quite an impression on me.

On the other hand, when my stepfather's heart stopped beating and he was clinically "dead" until brought back, he always said that there was nothing--he went from sentience to nothing until he was brought back. The experience made him quite fearful of death, and when his time came some 30 odd years later, he clung to my mother, asking her not to leave him.

So there are two examples for you. I know your belief system, and respect it, so I have limited my examples to those individuals who did not have mystical experiences.

Opinion based on observation of human nature.

once your brain dies, you cant exist. Of course, you wont be aware of your none existence.


This is it so make the best of it.

when your brain cells are dying off one by one? For 1-2 minutes to stretch to eternity your brain would have to operating at a higher rate somehow. This seems unlikely if it's being starved for oxygen. I've been rendered unconscious before (for surgery, heat stroke and even from trauma) and I don't recall experiencing such a phenomena.

Dreams can feel that way

If we were mostly good we then get ice cream, any flavor we want. If we were mostly bad we come back as a member of a Garth Brooks tribute band.

The master answered, "I don't know".

"What do you mean, you don't know?" the man replied angrily, "aren't you a famous Zen Master?"

"Yes", said the master, "but I'm not a dead one."