Same thing that was happening before I was conceived.

You do not "become" one with the universe - you already are. 🧘🏻‍♂️

The same thing that happened before I was born

Since I'm not religious, the most logical answer is probably nothing. We simply cease to exist.

Obviously though, I won't know until it happens.

I just hope I get to hug my dog again

Your brain stops and your body rots.

We just die and then we're gone. Reincarnation could be a comforting idea while we're alive, but even if it's real, we'll never know.

Brain gets no more blood. Neural biochemistry breaks down. Brain dies. You die. That’s it. Except for some incoherent and contradictory texts from bronze-age books or wishful thinking by naive people, there is ZERO scientific evidence that heaven or reincarnation exist. Even Buddha never suggested we would reincarnate, that was an idea added later by some of his followers. The bible is very flimsy on the entire concept of hell and heaven.

I don't think there's an afterlife, but I can hope that there is one. Just being a specter and getting to explore the universe until the end of time would be cool. Realistically, it's probably just nothingness, unless somehow our brains are capable of creating an infinite dream for us.

Have you ever been knocked out before? Instant time travel into the future. Probably something like that without the ringing sound in your head from whatever hit you. Oh, and also that you never wake up.

I like the idea of reincarnation, but maybe it's my antitheist limited brain, transitioning to a creature with vastly different intelligence or central nervous system seems like the me I am still ceases to exist. Same vibes doesn't even really check out when folks with brain ailments go through massive personality changes and I wouldn't ever expect someone to "maintain their vibe" through that change.

The same thing that happened before I was born.

I know the ones who love us will miss us.

No more shifts at work, no more rent to pay. Pure bliss.

If I didnt have big plans for my death I'd probably have intentionally ODed on heroin already.

Nothing.

Your “perspective,” your view of the world, and all of consciousness, is an illusion maintained by your brain. Death is no different than turning a machine off and disassembling it.

I will say, the human ability to make conscious choices is really something special.

Your “afterlife” is the hole you leave behind. It’s the impact you leave on the world, and how others remember you.

"When?" I think you mean, "If."

Depends on whether you get cremated or not. If you're cremated, you turn into ash. Otherwise you most likely turn into dirt.

We go to sleep and never wake up.

Nothing. Its over.

Hopefully I was a good boy and I get to ask Baba why hotdogs come in packs of 10 but buns in 8? 😅

The only people who know for sure can't tell us, but realistically it's probably a cessation of consciousness.

You put down the alien equivalent of the salvia pipe and all your alien friends are there asking how it was

Someone or something eats your carbon

I relinquish control of my atoms, at least to whatever extent I controlled some of them prior to death. And I no longer perceive or think or remember.

If I could reincarnate into anything other than a human on earth, I'm not sure I'd want to retain memories of a past life. I'd hate to poison a new and different life with the baggage of a human lifetime, for better or worse.

Mind uploading or cryonic preservation for possible future revival and treatment is a nice thought, but I would hate for evil billionaires to be able to cheat death, that seems like too big a tradeoff.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

If I could design a system it would be reincarnation with intact memory.

Do you remember what its like to be asleep? Well, being dead is just the same, but for longer, and probably with fewer dreams.

God welcoming me with open arms and tears in his eyes and I keep ragebaiting him to see what happens

You go back to where your consciousness comes from. Everyone has their own idea of what that means, but I don't think anyone is 100% correct.

Actually, personality I believe that everyone is correct. You can go chill in heaven for a while, do whatever you want, maybe come back to Earth again after a breather.

You know that feeling when you're playing a really intense game or watching a movie, and then it ends? And you just sit there like, damn. That was epic. Then you talk about it with your friends and family, maybe eat lunch, just hang out for a while before deciding what to do next? The comfortable zone after an exciting event but before boredom sets in. Maybe that movie was peak for you and you're done forever, maybe not.

Realistically, what's the difference between what happened to you when you were born and what will happen to someone who is born after you're dead?

Your atoms and energy stop arranging themselves in a way that forms you and become something else for a time.

Mom gets sad

Either nothingness or I awake somewhere else.

Don't know, probably nothing. Whatever happens but with a score screen in the end. Times taken a piss, hours slept, right/wrong ratio when arguing on the Internet.

I’m becoming increasingly convinced of the raw utilitarian nature of consciousness, it being nothing more than an emergent property of a complex enough neural structure.

The body dies, the brain shuts down, the consciousness just ceases to be. The consciousness that is now “me” comes back into existence in another newly formed neural structure. But it’s not me. It’s new, and the only reason “I” am in there is because I’m not in this brain anymore.

You can call reincarnation if you like, but to me that implies the consciousness carrying lessons from its previous lives for some greater purpose. I don’t believe that. When I die, everything I know dies with me and I pop back into existence a blank slate with no knowledge or care of what I once was. Maybe as a giraffe, or a sugar glider, or some hyper intelligent amorphous blob on a planet in a galaxy we can’t even see from here.

I believe our atoms scatter off and bounce into the next thing they can cling to over and over again until we make up a new being. Then we start over.

If it was up to me our souls would convene out in space, get a fresh coat of paint, a report on how we did this go around, then go off to do whatever's next.

I really hope that this is just it. Any form of afterlife I find just infuriating.

I'm somewhat of a nondualist, and I think our consciousness is basically like a peak of a wave in a sea. Once you return back to the sea your consciousness becomes part of the next forming wave. Kind of like reincarnation. But I am not sure if we can remember things from a past life, memories seem to be stored in the physical brain or something like that.

Worms eat me. Worms poop me out. Worm poop provides nutrient to a few stray wandering plant and tree seeds. They grow. I'm a part of them.

What I think happens: unfortunately, nothing, your consciousness simply ceases, you go back to the state you were in before you existed

What I hope happens: it feels like being asleep for eternity, shifting in and out of dreams and enjoying memories of life

Other ideas I like: becoming one with a universal consciousness, or a system where we're punished for our sins and then go to paradise, or this life is a dream and you wake up in another reality barely remembering this life

Nothing. I'm not spiritual, though I do sort of believe some things like that in a non-literal fashion. I don't believe I am part of some sort of unity, though I would say that yeah in an abstract sense I am just a complex multi-cellular organism and in most cases cooperation with other multi-cellular organisms is preferred. With the systems how they are now though, I am not participating (even if it is to my own detriment).

Design? It would require a bunch things that likely won't happen in my lifetime. Basically a transhumanist re-do. Get my brain somewhere and somewhen better, get it going again ideally with a mix of symbiosis+tech that allows existing comfortably. This could take a lot of forms too (many that others would find too alien/isolated), though not too hopeful about the future and that I could actually have a place in it.

My consciousness merges with the universal consciousness, which absorbs my memories to learn what it was like to be this particular organism in these particular circumstances. "I" will cease to be, and will become a personal memory of God, for lack of a better word.

Perhaps that process will take some subjective time, and go through interesting phases. Perhaps part of that process is recirculating through multiple vessels before total dissolution.

If quantum immortality is real, things might get really weird the closer to the end you get. The idea is if there is an infinite multiverse and our consciousness experiences one of them, then it could pick the "best" one, by some definition of "best". In which case unlikely things that can keep your life going (and be worth keeping going) are more and more likely to happen as you exhaust the more likely possibilities that would end your life. Could be that each of us ends up immortal in our own universe, not really alone because other people are there but alone in that their consciousnesses aren't likely present (unless your best unlikely future is also theirs).

I think the situation from Defending Your Life or Eternity seems pretty neat for an afterlife, but realistically I think that the best we can hope for a “heaven” is living on in good memories from those we leave behind.

Being reincarnated into a well-loved house cat would be pretty dope too.

But ultimately I think our consciousness just stops and we return to the same state we didn’t exist in, before we existed.

I'm good with the Lifestream theory. Not as fantastical as it is depicted in FF7 of course but the basics definitely incorporate most of the least ridiculous theories into something I can believe in. Even physically we do become one with the planet, which in turn is part of the universe. A soul is just your personal sliver of the Lifestream, once you're done it goes back in and might just come back into another living creature. Until the Planet gets scorched by the sun at which point I don't have a clue. Either way, all is one and one is all is comforting enough sentiment. No need for imaginary friends or mythical designs, no overseer, just life and its cycle.

This one's not going to Sovngarde, hoping for the Shivering Isles, hanging out with Thoriz Septim III. Likely this one will end up in the Misty Grove drinking with Sam.

Nothing happens. But if i had the choice, I like the story "the egg". I also would love to drop into spectator mode and be able to wander the earth and watch humanity flourish. Maybe some very minor ways to help guide humanity would be nice to...

Same thing that happened before you were born. It's terrifying but I'm pretty sure it's just nothing. The human mind is just a production of our little meat computers. No computer no mind.

If it was up to me I'd want to give people some kind of like, system. I'd want something like a personalized heaven, maybe a few ghosts. Another realm beyond this one.

There should be some reason to be good in this world. The system should disincentive being a real piece of shit. Not sure how, not big in eternal punishment even if you really suck.

If I died and God was like "Yeah it's cool wanna go live another life in the world from your favorite stories?" That'd be tight.

Maybe some real freaky multiverse shit, every time something dies with a soul it gets its own divergent universe. All things being an infinitely spanning tree.

I don't know where you'll go. I'm going to have to beg the Teotl to let me, a foreigner, go somewhere.

I don't think there is an after life or a heaven. But if there was, what exactly would envision doing there?

Whatever you are is no longer tethered to physical reality so whatever you think will happen, happens to you.

System of choice? Maybe no death whatsoever. Or that people's spirits continue on and can opt to be ghosts or do whatever but it's so unanimous and known it's like "did you hear Greg died? Well he can't type his report up so you have to type it out for him before he retires. Lucky bastard doesn't have to eat the gross sheet cake we got for him and can retire."

You either go to Purgatory and then Heaven, straight to Heaven or hell