Re: OT: Death

John_Brian_K wrote:
What happens when you die?

Lots of things.


Obviously noone knows for sure because if
you knew, well you would be dead. What are peoples opinions as to
what they either expect or think happens when you die?

I don't really believe in "death," per se. Just a long series of changes from one form to another.


Is there a spirit in us?

Yes.


Are the pictures people have been able to capture, with a camera, that
show some kind of aura really evidence of something 'inside' us.

Maybe.


Are we just bodies with a conscience and when we die thats it?

That wouldn't make much sense, would it? Human beings and the lives of human beings are a lot more sophisticated mentally/psychologically/emotionally, etc. than evolution would need them to be. Cockroaches get along just fine. Why have we evolved all of this complexity if the objective of life is to do nothing more than replicate genetic material?

I would think that it'd be reasonable to more people that, while biological evolution is clearly a fact, evolution of consciousness is a reality too, and both are part of a larger, general process of evolution.


Will a select few be resurrected on judgement day by 'God'?

That's a very specific mythology you're referring to. I don't have any reason to believe that such a thing will occur.


Will our consciousness be reanimated in another body?

When it chooses to, yes. Reincarnation has always seemed intuitively obvious to me. But it doesn't appear so to many others, especially in this society. Oh well. I've been told that I have an old soul, and that old souls naturally "sense" this, and that the world right now is mostly young souls, who don't sense this as readily. Personally, I feel it in my bones that I have been around this block before, many times.


What happens just before death?

It depends.


Do we see a light?

Sometimes.


Do we walk down a tunnel?

Sometimes.


Is there such a thing as purgatory?

As I understand it, there are places that could be described as "purgatory," though purgatory is more of a state of mind.


Will be judged by our 'performance' on earth?

"Judged" isn't really the right word.


Will technology eventually 'prevent' death?

Not forever. The nature of the physical universe precludes the possibility of immortality. One way or another, it ends. I sure wouldn't want to get old and be stuck in an old body for any longer than the industry standard. No immortality for me, thanks! 70-80 years is plenty. Sure, I'll take another couple decades if things are going well.


Can you be frozen, dethawed and when technology finds something to
bring people back, come back to life?

Not yet, but maybe someday. Why bother though?


Feel free to supliment this list witha question of your own and
possibly give your opinion on it.

People are overly attached to life and overly afraid of death. Especially people with a materialist cosmology. I prefer to think of life/death as part of something bigger. If I'm wrong, I will have lived more at peace with life and death than those people, so I'm happy to be wrong about it, and I'll never know the difference anyway.

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