Discussion Do you believe/what is your view on the afterlife?

[peerlesscucumber]

I, myself, have been raised with an odd Christian backround, which I fully believe influence my view on death and suicide as a whole.

What I believe in, is that after one dies you will be sent to hell to pay for however much you've sinned, and once you've repented or you punishment has been enough, you will be reborn into a new life (how "good" or "bad" depends on how much you've repented and sinned while in hell)

It might sound kind of a crazy worldview coming from a Christian, but it keeps me calm at night to know that my punishment won't be eternal.

I'm curious to know if anyone else in here has particular beliefs or views on what comes after one dies.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Basically this:

 

[peerlesscucumber]

Basically this:
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Can't believe you can't have drip in the afterlife

 

[WantThisToEnd]

I don't believe there's an afterlife. I think that's something we humans made up because we're too scared of the alternative. Same reason we made up gods who care about us.

I think when you die it's like a dreamless sleep that never ends. Non-existence.

 

[peerlesscucumber]

I don't believe there's an afterlife. I think that's something we humans made up because we're too scared of the alternative. Same reason we made up gods who care about us.

I think when you die it's like a dreamless sleep that never ends. Non-existence.

Honestly, this is something I strongly agree with. I know that there's probably just nothing after one dies, you just cease to exist, but it's awfully comforting to think otherwise.
I pretty much just feel like I'm convincing myself like kids convince themselves Santa or the Easter bunny exist

 

[rebelnow111]

yeah i think theres an afterlife but alot of variation in how certain things can go after death.

 

[FuneralCry]

No, I really don't and I don't want life under any circumstances, I really just wish for permanent nothingness as I don't want to suffer in this existence ever again. To cease existing and be unable to experience anything for all eternity is all I see as desirable, I personally find so much comfort in the thought of simply not existing.

 

[KillingPain267]

I, myself, have been raised with an odd Christian backround, which I fully believe influence my view on death and suicide as a whole.

What I believe in, is that after one dies you will be sent to hell to pay for however much you've sinned, and once you've repented or you punishment has been enough, you will be reborn into a new life (how "good" or "bad" depends on how much you've repented and sinned while in hell)

It might sound kind of a crazy worldview coming from a Christian, but it keeps me calm at night to know that my punishment won't be eternal.

I'm curious to know if anyone else in here has particular beliefs or views on what comes after one dies.

I'm also a Christian with a minority view on the "afterlife", although I came to it by studying it myself:

I believe in anthropological physicalism, meaning that humans consist only of a body and consciousness is the result of a functioning brain (no traditional immaterial "soul"). So I don't believe a human goes to "heaven" or "hell" after they die, but simply to the grave.

BUT... I believe at the end of the world, (and Scripture is absolutely clear here), that all humans in the graves will rise again PHYSICALLY and be judged by God. The unbelieving sinners will be cast into "hell" and basically be put to death a second time, but then burned UP (meaning cease to live forever and be dead and unconscious just like the dead are currently). So it's the annihilationist/conditional immortality view of hell. Those dead who, in this life, admitted to be wretched sinners but chose to believe by faith alone in the savior Christ Jesus, will at the judgment rise again PHYSICALLY with a body that cannot experience pain, sorrow, sin or death and live forever on a new restored literal earth and universe (where there is likewise no more decay or death). So the "afterlife" is entirely physical.

For me the comfort is that no matter what, since I am saved by faith alone in Jesus, I will avoid the second death/"hell" and instead one day wake up, and have a life similarly to now, but entirely without the mental and physical suffering I have now. I'll get to enjoy nature, travel, sports, hobbies and conversing with people without pain, dread, exhaustion, trauma, depression and meaninglessness I feel now.

 

[Cute_&_Loving]

Oblivion

 

[F&Inside]

Hello, I would like to believe in nothingness after death, I had enough with one life. Unfortunately and due to paranormal experiences (which I will not share in public) I am forced to believe in something else.

 

[imissmycat]

I don't believe in an afterlife unfortunately.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

I don't believe in an afterlife. There's nothing after we're dead. Ultimately we don't know what comes after death.

 

[ThatGuyOverThere]

If you die in such away that your brain or brain stem is destroyed then it would leave you with out sensation, and as such in death you would be incapable of feeling. even if there is a physical plain to exist in, then surely without a brain or a body you would feel nothing. Or at least I hope that's the case.

Where as I preferably want the after life to be like floating in an abyss or underwater with out any of the pain or pleasure of life, and with out the worry of becoming bored of it.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Doesn't exist. Man-made construct developed years ago to explain what wasn't understood. Most have moved past that now, but unfortunately, too many still embrace that concept.

 

[Themogger]

I sometimes fear online transactions because what if I get scammed? All I could do is shrug and go; it's not fair but there's nothing I can do. When I think about the afterlife, concepts of eternal punishment for the finite crimes committed or just involuntary endless existence; all I can say is that it's not fair, but there's nothing I could do about it.

Right now I believe the brain is like a computer and when you die, it shuts off.

Christians really make for the best atheists

 

[JealousOfTheElderly]

I believe we reincarnate here or different worlds / places / times / timelines. This is what stops me from committing suicide because I'm afraid if I do, I will be condemned to repeat my life or something similar all over again with similar challenges.

 

[GuessWhosBack]

It would be improper to say for certain what happens in the afterlife, if there even is one.

But my preference would be to there being no afterlife.

 

[DarkRange55]

Ask me when I'm dead

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I believe that there is no afterlife and that after death is just permanent non existence