What do you think happens when you die? Do you go to heaven or hell? Do you reincarnate? Or do you just simply rot in the ground?

... or is there something else, you believe happens when you die?
hmmm... its a mystery!


For the longest time I believed that people would reincarnate into different creatures, not just on Earth but on other planets with life too. But recently I have been starting to realize more and more that our personalities and characteristics are probably stemming from the brain, so when you die, your very being dies with your brain, so you must just simply vanish and rot in the ground.

Its scary thought and I really hope that what I believe is wrong, but its been occurring to me more and more that, that is probably the case.


What do you think?

i think that when you did you're dead... and thats it....
no heaven, no hell, no reincarnation, no self perpetuation of any kind.
you're dead....
why is that scary?

If I did not have my religion, I would belive the theory that you came up with. It makes perfect sence ^-^ But, it's not what I belive. Just throwing that out there @w@

That kind of is a scary thought... since you just die and become nothing... No after life, just nothing... But it's a part of life that everyone faces eventually. Though I like to believe there's some sort of after life, it's very well possible there isn't. ^^;; It's scary, but not much you can do about it. >w<

There being nothing to look forward to makes me just want to kill myself now. Why live if there is no point except to die?

I believe in a Heaven, I'm not so sure about hell, I don't think something that harsh exists, I like the idea of Purgatory. A place for those who are misguided to make up their sins or an in between kind of thing for those not ready to move on.

I usually go to Valhalla every time I die.

I believe that you get reincarnated by Mother Nature. Just my 2 cents.

there are two things that i think of one is how you lived your life while on this earth if it was good or bad. determined on that thats where you are sent, but if you get sent to hell its your own personal hell filled with all of things you fear or the wrongs that you have done until others, if your sent to heaven its your personal heaven like things that you like, family members and pets that you have missed, and i also believe in reincarnation, but i think that you are not sent back until you are needed for a purpose, like at the moment one of my friends believe that i am an earth angel because i help a lot of people out when they really need it

when you die...only the body does, but the soul will either be damned or be saved....

your body dies but your soul goes on not sure what happens after

I'm not sure what I believe.
Some days I'd like to think I'd continue to exist in some way, and some days it seems more logical to assume that I won't.
There's no way to know for sure right now, so it's not something I worry about.

I'll be interested to find out, when I die.

i think it depends on the circumstances of your death, and your life ...

When the body dies, it rots. Then the soul is released to Purgatory, where you relive your life in a world of gray. When you've found out the purpose that your life was supposed to have (however long that takes), you get 'reborn'. Until you discover you're purpose, you get to remain in purgatory.

Actually this was a dream I had once. Before then, I believed in nothing, and that depressed me. I couldn't handle the bleakness of nothingness. So when I had this dream, my brain just wouldn't let go of it. It was my personal savior from suicide....

But thats just what I believe.

Well there will always be questions about this, but personally, I believe in reincarnation.

The thing that lets me believe in life after death is the fact that there are ghosts and people have had out of body experiences. If all you had was a body and no soul, then there would be no way of that to happen. Nothing science can ever figure out, people have souls. People can do spiritual healing of sorts, that helps me believe.

If you notice things about people, some of them tend to look a little like certain animals, be more drawn to certain animals, and have a bit of a personality like certain animals. And maybe that person has all those things from the same animal. Maybe that's where they came from in a past life? Who knows. Sounds like a beautiful thing to me.

I would also like to believe that once your 'spiritual journey' is over, that you could go to a peaceful place with everyone else's spirits. Or maybe even go there in between your lives on earth. But who knows.
We shall see. :3

Personally, I like to believe that when you die, as you decompose, the energy that once made you move becomes fuel for other plants and animals around you. You contribute to the natural process. A part of you could help a tree grow, plants thrive, stuff like that.

The last thing that I want to happen to me is to continue existing after my body has died. I've had enough of dealing with life already. After I die, I just want to be left alone. None of that going to heaven or hell thing, please.

If I wasn't being chocked about my grandmother about being a Christian, I'd be an atheist right now.I do believe in the philosophy of the Buddhism but won't contribute myself to it.I believe in reincarnation but no Heaven or Hell.

i belive that there is nothing when we die were just dead. which scares me the most because i feel if that's true then all we do would be for nothing

That's along the same lines as my theory.

Though I like to think that the chemical energy stored in our bodies gets passed on to other living creatures.

Some Native American tribes believe that this life is not 'life' at all, but the dream state. The pre-birth life... and that when we 'die' here, that is when we are truly born.
So they do not fear death...

ya know i'm really not sure

i mean at some point, i think there is an afterlife

but when i begin to think of so many things that happened, i usually doubt it. for example, a friend of mine died. and i knew that a jar of jam was always making him happy so someone wanted to give me a jar of jam and i said 'i used to know someone who would love to taste this' and when that person tried to give me the jar, it dropped and broke.. so i believe that friend of mine was with me that time.. so i wonder.. if it was with me, then there's no heaven or hell? cause if i were to choose between heaven and remaining on earth and just watching what happens next, i would choose heaven a thousand times!

and that wasn't the only time when creepy things happened to me or my friends..

I believe that you go to a place with all of the people that you love and that love you. I don't believe that this world could be so extremely pointless. We are living for some reason and it is more than just "feeding trees and animals" when we die. There is definitely something more.

i have no idea and i wonder about this quite often. :P

I go to hit the restart button.
= )

I don't know...sometimes like tonight... or morning I guess I feel like death is just that, you die and there is no hell or heaven...Whatever or however your life was like, that was your hell or heaven...

But on other days, I like to believe the soul is immortal...now that I'm thinking about it, I think I do believe that...it's more comforting =/

Simple, depending on the burial practices of your family or religion you either A) go in the gound in a box or casket B) get cremated and keot on the fireplace mantle C) get mummufied D) get buried at sea or E) get your bones bleached and donated to a museum..
see very simple answers as for the whole soul thing I don't know the answer to that..