what happens when you die?

it seems there has been alot of death around me lately and it got me wondering, what happens

is there heaven, or hell

do you know that you are dead or are you just gone forever

are you conscious? do you just rot away and thats the end of all the experiences you will ever have, or is there something else?

i wish i knew man but i thought i would just post this and get some of your thoughts

me personally i have no idea, but i refuse to believe we just die and thats it i think something happens but im not sure what

yeh i think an afterlife.

The brain is like a machine, or a computer. When you die, it no longer functions, and you're done with. Not a bad thing, really.

you get to eat chocolate malts everyday

When you die your brain releases a chemical DMT, its highly potent hallucinogen. Suposedly this chemical also causes extreme dilation so the last few seconds of your live feel like an eternity. Scientists also believe this chemical is what causes dreams. Dont take my word for it though. Dimethyltryptamine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mankind has been asking that question since the beginning of time.

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Originally Posted by Metaphor

When you die your brain releases a chemical DMT, its highly potent hallucinogen. Suposedly this chemical also causes extreme dilation so the last few seconds of your live feel like an eternity. Scientists also believe this chemical is what causes dreams. Dont take my word for it though. Dimethyltryptamine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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I always wondered about what happens after you die too. I did hear the same thing as above from my high school chemistry teacher.

Yea, we'll probably never know. I personally believe that when you die, you're completely unconscious with no idea who you are and what you did in your past life and then you are reborn, not necessarily as a human, but as anything. The human race is so fascinating it's insane and creepy.

Hopefully ill be ploped into Ganja Heaven, and ill have a blunt in my ear when I walk through the Bud Gates.

It's probably like what it was before you were born. Nothing.

I dont know, I beleive there is an after life. But I also think that it is not what everyone thinks of it as. No in a bad way, just different.

Can you wake up dead?

when ur dead your dead,but why are u wondering if there is an afterlife?.what about out side the universe billions upon billions of miles.u think it just stops?theres a cement wall?lolmakes me wonder

well what ever the hell happens were all going to find out sooner or later. But if i am reborn i hope ill be born to be a hawk or an eagle!

you lose a level and your total hp and mp is reduced to 1/3 of it's original ammount...

The same place you go when you sleep.

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Originally Posted by Infamous

The same place you go when you sleep.

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That brings up an interesting point. Do you think that people can dream when they're dead, but just never wake up? Sounds very unlikely considering that the brain does absolutely nothing when you're dead, but it's interesting.

I was thinking the same thing the other day.......what if you had electrical charges pumped through your brain when you're dead.......technically you should be able to dream right? To dream for the rest of eternity would be amazing.

i had a friend in high school who thought about death and the mysteries of the human race all the time. He believe that you have a shitload of energy flowing through you while you're alive and that it has to go someplace when you died, he could never figure out where though.

Maybe its passed on to a new life? Ya know....the moment you die a kid is born sorta thing ;)

That's so trippy. Sometimes I don't like thinking about that kind of stuff because it kind of seems like a waste of time since no one knows. It's cool to think about it though when you're high because you get really into it. I've had some pretty deep conversations about it when I've been blitzed.

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That brings up an interesting point. Do you think that people can dream when they're dead, but just never wake up? Sounds very unlikely considering that the brain does absolutely nothing when you're dead, but it's interesting.

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That is assuming one still has a brain, or even a head, while they are dead. Given that, I don't see it as logical. But that DMT thing sounds cool, that whole "eternal last minute". then again, how eternal can something feel if your brain gets blown apart?

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That is assuming one still has a brain, or even a head, while they are dead. Given that, I don't see it as logical. But that DMT thing sounds cool, that whole "eternal last minute". then again, how eternal can something feel if your brain gets blown apart?

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Yea, I really wasn't thinking of someone w/o a head at the time haha. That makes death even more of a mystery.

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That's so trippy. Sometimes I don't like thinking about that kind of stuff because it kind of seems like a waste of time since no one knows. It's cool to think about it though when you're high because you get really into it. I've had some pretty deep conversations about it when I've been blitzed.

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Yeah me too man. The only problem is remembering it the conversations after the session hehe. I heard that us humans only use 11 percent of our brains....... the other 89% could contain anything. All that extra space must be used for something, maybe it only activates when we die.

There was a doctor and medical scientist, during the French Revolution, who was arrested for some reason and sentenced to the guillotine. He told one of his protégés to observe his eyes after his head was cut off, because he wanted to conduct a final experiment, by blinking his eyes, to see if the brain was still conscious. The observer wrote that his friend blinked three times immediately following the guillotine.

I think the 11% of our brain thing means that we only use 11% of our brain at a TIME. i'm almost positive we've mapped out the brain for all its observable uses. Key word being "observable" i guess.

When you die, you come before God Almighty. Face to face.

If you don't know him, then there is reason to be afraid.

If you do know him, then it's all good.

So do animals meet God Almighty as well? and if they do, do they fear him since they are not intelligent enough to know "know him"?

i see no difference in the death of an ant, a dolphin, a bird, or a human. iv humored so many conversations with people claiming only humans have souls, but animals don't. it's a package deal.

our ansestors, the folks who breached the stretch between animal and human, had burial rituals for eachother.

i like what someone else said on here recently, it's something i've always thought as well: when you die, it's just like before you were born. nothing.

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Originally Posted by vej33

i like what someone else said on here recently, it's something i've always thought as well: when you die, it's just like before you were born. nothing.

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I agree with that, it's a scary realization though. :(

To a degree yea.

Do you guys believe in souls? If so, what constitutes a soul? I'm not challenging or anything, I really just want to hear what people think.

Well, when you die, your family and friends greave and there is usually a celebration of your past life while also being a place to cry over your dead body. A funeral.

RR, thats the one im more familiar with. er, not like i died or some shit, but thats how things usually run around here. Its kind of depressing, been to a handful in a matter of months, all immediete(sp?). better times ahead i hope. till then im in cruise control:cool:

Here's my theory on death: I'm not sure if it's someone else's too, but anyways,

I believe that when you die, you rot. (obviously) BUT, when you rot, you body is basically broken downinto smaller and smaller particles until eventually, you're (or what used to be you) is nothing but elements scattered throughout the ground. (If buried w/o a grave case thing.)


So anyways, now you're scattered elements, and these elements are eventually reorganized through different chemical reactions and what have you, and it's through this process that I believe we are re-encarnated. Be it as dirt or a plant, maybe (if we could be so lucky) a nice big Pot plant.

I don't know if it's true, but it's the only thing that really makes complete sence to me. But it's only a theory, there's no way to tell if it's true because you aren't you anymore, no memories, no nothing, you've become something completely different.

i think re encarnation sounds like the most pleasant possibility

but like someone said earlir its weird to think it really might be like we were never born though. nothing. weird?

I have always been absolutely convinced that you just simply lose conciousness and have no thoughts whatsoever. You just cease to exist. And fasterspider's post has confirmed that to me :jointsmile: :rastasmoke: The whole notion of an afterlife has never made any sense to me. But I do understand the desire for humans to believe in something like that though. To me, however, it has no basis in reality at all. To each his own though it's all good :rasta:

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I have always been absolutely convinced that you just simply lose conciousness and have no thoughts whatsoever. You just cease to exist. And fasterspider's post has confirmed that I was right :jointsmile: :rastasmoke: The whole notion of an afterlife has never made any sense to me and it's just crazy talk in my opinion. :hippy:

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i agree kind of. Everything psychedelics have showed me makes me believe when you die you simply return to a non conscious state similar to before you are born. Just being whatever you wanna call the particles, molecules, atoms or whatever. In peace at least.

Maybe people that have those death experience in hospitals and see white lights did die, recieved the dmt and took it for whatever they did. They chose to interpret their last chemical release as a hopeful gateway to heaven for eternity. Rather than a trip since they dont even know dmt releases in the brain when you die. right?
So when you die you get that last trip and than you blast into peace of being part of the particulate matter which is the earth.

The bhuddists believe that you enter into a long string of trials (including avoiding what we would percieve to be as "heaven", coming face to face with wrathful dieties, face to face with death himself, and a cadre of other tribulations) that will decide the if you are reborn or break free of the karmic cycle and achieve nirvana. If you are reborn you're final trial is to walk down a hall full of people having sex and choose which ones shall be your parents. Upon choosing you experience total and complete bliss then you are concieved.

My grandmother has seen a ghost once before in her life time, when she was very young her grandfather died, she had never met him before. The night of his death before her family was informed of his passing she went into her mothers room and said there was a nice man in her room and described her deceased grandfather with astonishing perfection.

Honestly I have had no such experience and until I do, I shall continue to believe that when I die thats it, game over. I'd like to believe in an after life but I just simply can't believe in something thats never been presented to me in any form at all be it tangible or personal experience.

Do you believe in ghosts?

Me?
Not particularly, I won't say they don't exist but I've never had a supernatural experience.

When I die, I hope it's in my sleep. Wanna go out like that, peacefully. I really don't care what happens after that.