I hope it's just like going to sleep with no dreams.
Sleep. The little death.

I don't believe in any afterlife.

If this has been mentioned or have been debated in this thread then erase my comment, ´cause I haven't read every comment in this thread

Many years ago a group of scientist from Sweden, England and two other countries joint together and made a survey, where they in each separat country asked those who have been dead for second or minutes and had been relived

From what I can remember the answer they got, told them that it was not a common experience the patient had while being dead-the story they told was different.

They also found out that the "Dream" they have had also depended on their belief or not.

The are two stories I do remember, some part of it.

One was a man from England. He told the scientist he saw a bright light and a man with beard opening his arm when he suddenly was drawn backwards and later woke up.

The next was also from England, but this was also a man who came from India and he told the scientist he had seen a person with several arms

A third person said he was so to say nearby seeing the doctors working on his body.

Markus

Our ancestors believed that death does not exist, and there is only a long separation, perhaps so they were easier to overcome...

Maybe. It's also rather delicious.

No more than it has to do with which version of 'Amazing Grace' one likes the best. Derailing an active thread with a specific point can be annoying. A resurrected thread in which people have quickly run out of things to talk about is another thing entirely. Your opinion on the afterlife, or whether there is one, is easy to state but impossible to argue. What else is there?

hmmm, as far as my way of thinking goes, much has changed.

Only the dead know for sure what happens when the body dies. But there have been some who have been revived and shared experiences which would indicate it doesnt end on the death bed. So I suppose it is possible there may be a transition from the physical to the metaphysical and why not? Already science has firm clues that has changed and continues to challange our old ideas of what reality is.

It boggles my mind to think how an ethereal massless energy eventually condensed to form matter, became alive, learned to love, feel joy, compose great symphonies and reach for the stars. That thing that makes you you, your soul conscience whatever you want to call it, is energy and its got to go somewhere. :D

It's a nice thought but there is no evidence that anything like that happens. Although I had many years as a believer in such things I don't think there is an afterlife. When the power goes off and brain activity ceases, that's it. In many ways i think it will be a relief. :O:

^This.

It's true. In the scale of the universe as we know it we're barely visible. Just a blip.

Honestly I think Neapolitan is the best ice cream
chocolate, vanilla and strawberry how can you go wrong Xd:D

We the living I dont think have any solid evidence to support either claim. Like I said only the dead know for sure what happens after we die. But things do change as we learn more. 100 years ago science just 'knew' the universe was eternal. Today sceince now has evidence that suggests it had a beginning.

What happens after I died?

Having no own family by then, and expecting my parents to be dead by then, foreign people I never knew will come and do with the dead corpus and my former belongings what they want, following my last will as they pleases, so its absolutely possible they will ignore it as well, and I will not exist to care for that anymore.

That is what will happen.

I like this author who has just two words on his gravestone in some natural reserve in the US: "No comment." :)

"No drama" also would have been good. :D

All this rite and ritual is not for the dead, but for the survivors. Do not sent the deceased those expensive flowers. Do that while they still are alive. If you missed that, save your money later on.

Maybe consider "beginning" in plural. ;)

I want a simple head stone.
"WTF?"
:haha:

Don't feel alone Buddahaid, I can't listen to it either - heard it too many times.

The most beautiful voiced woman in the world wouldn't help and as for bagpipes, can't bagpipes be tuned?? ..... I doubt that would help. : )

Check out this bag pipe player. Flame shooting pipes playing AC/DC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgzZLNwqvdQ

Two words: Sugar Cones. :)

http://icecreamjournal.turkeyhill.co.../05/photo1.jpg

I have a rough time with it myself. Too many fire fighter and police officer funerals.

Thanks Steve to getting back to what we think ... :D

I think there is a check in desk and you get to find out where you can be used in the battle for what we think.

the bible says that for each one of us there is an appointed time to die and then comes the judgement, but what if it is an untimed event, a wreck, a drunk driver, a plane accident, stray bullets, etc?

God gave the Hebrew children a promise that in that day (meaning the days ahead promise of peace) that they would have no former memory of they were. I don't believe in reincarnation, but I do believe in Gods mercy.

Todays Israel may very well be full of people (the ones in WWII come to mind) that have no former memory of they were, but live a life waiting for the promised one, their messiah.

I like Pistachio and Rocky Road together at the same time so I can go from one taste to the other ... :yep:

Something we're forgetting about in all this: ZOMBIES... what about them?

Minty ice cream is nice, too.

I never thought about that one. That would be pretty rough.

I agree with you. I have been involved with health care settings and have seen some things that I didn't even try to explain. I simply accepted it.

As far as reincarnation, I just know I don't want to come back as one of Eichhörnchen's squirrels in his pictures. :03: