what happens when you die?

i believe that we are all made up of energy and when you die you go into a dreamless sleep, like being unconscious with no memories. your body decomposes and the energy that once made you is broken down until some other being uses the energy.

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Originally Posted by youngcity

i believe that we are all made up of energy and when you die you go into a dreamless sleep, like being unconscious with no memories. your body decomposes and the energy that once made you is broken down until some other being uses the energy.

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Sounds an awful lot like the life stream in final fantasty 7 :-p

My dad once had this conversation with me... he told me that the energy that makes up this earth today, and its inhabitants, has always been the same energy, since energy cannot be made or destroyed... therefore, he said that he believed when we die, our energy becomes reused, probably in the ground we decompose in. but our bodies go into the dirt, and the dirt sprouts plants, and plants give off air, which help others breathe....

sort of like that circle of life speech Mufasa gave Simba.

It makes the most sense to me, to be honest, at least by todays scientific knowledge. And I don't find it at all horrifying or scary... To decompose is a part of life, it's a process that we start from the moment of conception... We are always aging.

And I don't know that I believe there is a universe of unborn babies waiting to choose its parents...I think that we are all the product of 48 chromosomes, and our "soul" is really how we choose to display ourselves; we have the capability to communicate, and hear, and see, and be intelligent, and I think our intelligence is our soul.....

??!??!???what do you guys think???!?!!!?!?

I've allways believed in reincarnation. Cause Its a prooven fact that energy cannot be created or destroyed, so I think the soul is one of the purest forms of energy. so when you dies your soul just gets recycled into another life form. Be it be a snail, cockroache, butterfly, Grizzly bear or another human being. I also think the way you live your life reflects on how long your soul is trapped in animal form, untill it becomes human again. Kharma can work to your advantage, or cause you to be a dung beetle!!

there was this science show i was watching on tv before. It was a documentry on souls. The scientists belived that there was some source of energy in the body, religious people could call it a peice of god, or soul, the scientists just called it energy. So they took a dieing person who devoted himself to science. Put him in a Glass chamber, totally scealed. Air tight with one tube running down his throut for oxygen, self sistaining in the chamber. So basicly, totally scealed. When the person died, no sudden burst of energy came or anything, but upon investation, they found a small crack in the glass. So there was some sourt of powerfull energy.

i dont kno, just found it pretty interesting

hmMMmmm that IS interesting... i suppose that would be a good method of testing.. the energy must go somewhere, right?

"Confutatis maledictis,
flammis acribus addictis:
voca me cum benedictis.

Lacrimosa dies illa,
qua resurget ex favilla
judicandus homo reus."

(While the wicked are confounded,
doomed to flames of woe unbounded
call me with thy saints surrounded.

Ah! that day of tears and mourning!
From the dust of earth returning
man for judgment must prepare him.)

Or... if you want a more "scientific" answer...

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Originally Posted by Coelho

Well... what i will describe is only a theory, but for me makes sense.
Heaven and hell are described as timeless places we go after our death, and where we stay forever.
But time is relative. As every stoner knows, one minute can feel like hours... so what is one second for one people dont necessarily means one second for another.
Well... its believed that when our body is dying our brain is flooded with neurotransmitters and other substances, one of which is the DMT, a HEAVY hallucinogenic. And it makes the time to go slowwww.
So, i think both heaven and hell are states of mind, (or "trips" like some people would say) felt by people due the release of hallucinogens in the dying brain.
And, as every tripper knows, set and setting plays a fundamental role in the "trip". So, if a person was a good person, and had a positive view of the death ("when i die i will go to heaven"), then when it start to feel the hallucinations it will regard it as being in heaven. Yet if the people's view of the death were fearsome, the "trip" will be hellish.
And now enters the relativity of the time. For we, that are alive, the death of a person takes only few moments. But for the dying person, their "trippily" distorted perception of time may make this moments feels like forever. Forever being in hell of heaven.

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Originally Posted by vej33

hmMMmmm that IS interesting... i suppose that would be a good method of testing.. the energy must go somewhere, right?

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Yea IMO that energy u r talking about, is ur soul, and when u die ur energy goes where u want it, mines going to heaven to hang out with god and all the angels.:thumbsup:

"My dad once had this conversation with me... he told me that the energy that makes up this earth today, and its inhabitants, has always been the same energy, since energy cannot be made or destroyed... therefore, he said that he believed when we die, our energy becomes reused, probably in the ground we decompose in. but our bodies go into the dirt, and the dirt sprouts plants, and plants give off air, which help others breathe....

sort of like that circle of life speech Mufasa gave Simba.

It makes the most sense to me, to be honest, at least by todays scientific knowledge. And I don't find it at all horrifying or scary... To decompose is a part of life, it's a process that we start from the moment of conception... We are always aging.

And I don't know that I believe there is a universe of unborn babies waiting to choose its parents...I think that we are all the product of 48 chromosomes, and our "soul" is really how we choose to display ourselves; we have the capability to communicate, and hear, and see, and be intelligent, and I think our intelligence is our soul....."






That is a very intersting theory. I've taken many biology and chemistry classes and that theory actually seems to make some kind of scientific sense. The only problem I have is that humans are a product of 46 chromosomes, not 48.:thumbsup:

hahahha yea it's 28 pairs that i was thinking of, not 48.... i didn't do great in my genetics class last year heheheh but you got what i was saying! :)