what happens when you die?

[psychocat]

The brain sends electrical impulses to the muscles and without these signals the body is unable to function and "dies" , the death is followed by the breaking down of the elements of the body which (if we still buried people) would be absorbed back into the soil as nutrients and minerals.
The control of those electrical impulses isn't always under our control (reflex actions) but most of the time we are aware of our movements and actions.
The question is :
Do you view people as higher beings with a "soul" or as a highly developed biological machine?
I think the latter and I believe that when the plug is pulled the power is absorbed back into the network (Universe) so to speak.
I do not believe that the energy that makes us function is in any way sentient, any more than the energy that makes your TV work is.

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

how, then, can sentience exist? if neither matter nor energy can be sentient, how can sentience come about, then just as simply be snuffed away?

[temujin8]

well its simple you either die and, your "spirit goes on" (through reincarnation, if there is a better place or whatever) or you turn to dust and there really is nothing out there after life. If that is true it won't really matter since you wont care because you no longer exist... so no worries.

[katyowns]

I don't believe anyone here can say with any certainty, which is why people are so scared of death.

[psychocat]

I don't believe anyone here can say with any certainty, which is why people are so scared of death.

You missed a "some" out of that statement

which is why "some" people are so scared of death.

I don't fear death ,it's inevitable and I have already cheated it soooo many times. It's kind of like an old friend waiting in the wings.

[temujin8]

Words of wisdom....
â??People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend...â?�
-The Lizard King

[JeffersonBud]

Psychocat, I like that. Your friend in the wings is my friend as well.

[NaughtyDreadz]

when I dies, I'd like to feed some plants....

[JeffersonBud]

Maybe along with those plants you will feed some cars...

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

Words of wisdom....
â??People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend...â?�
-The Lizard King

I fear pain, I envy the dead. i hate the living because they become so damned emotionally attached to the pain called life that people CANT die with a clean conscience. it's like the emotional equivalent imparted on the living that they should have maimed a child, or raped a kitten or something grotesque.