I dunno, mabe.

[smoking habit]

Once our medical knowledge gets a little more sophisticated in the coming years, i want a doctor to kill me, somehow, then revive me. I want to be actually dead, and revived a short time after. Then we will know what happens when you die.

I know this has happened done before, not on purpose i dont think but for injuries and other shit.

[Lucifuge]

Hmm, I used to contemplate suicide because I was serious about knowing what happens afterward. Reminds me, my friend's uncle (at least I think he was his uncle) got shot by some gang bangers and was dead for 4 minutes. That guy was cool as shit.

[Cheery Cherry]

That's dangerous. I've always wondered too though...but I never thought of doing it myself. I'd like to meet someone who's died and then came back...just to see what they saw.

[MegaOctane12]

...just to see what they saw.

Fuck all hopefully,... what's with peoples obsession with death. It can't be healthy. Something I'll probaly never understand.

[Inferius]

Don't know if this is true, but in Waking Life (i think) they say there's Brain activity for about 10 minutes after death. And back when they used to decapitate people, they would grab the head, and hold it up so that the eyes could look down upon their headless neck.

Even if you did this, how do you know whatever you percieved wasn't just your brain having the last 10 minute expirience of life? And the only way to do that without the brain activity, i'm guessing again, is to kill the brain as well. Is there a way to do this and still revive you?
Does the human soul even exist? And if it does, does it really matter? Separated from it's physical body, it would no longer (logically) perceive the same human-created ideals of happyness or sadness, Self, or?

Or maybe it would? GAH, I'ma go shoot myself in the head, report back later.

[smoke it]

that movie Flatliners is about this. trippy movie

[mrdevious]

The problem with out of body experiences and views of the afterlife, is the recognition of a very vital mechanism that has only been discovered recently; that is, upon death your brian releases ALL your seratonin, dopamine, and endorphines. Essentially, if you understand the mechanism of psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and other entheogens/hallucinogens, when consciousness survives beyond gross brain function, this would be somewhat equivilant to the ultimate morphine, ecstasy, and mushroom trip.