The way I see it, we'll all be together again one day. In the earth. That's comforting enough for me to know.

I just make this point that one appalling delusion of modern Christianity is that they convince believers that when they die they rise to heaven to God and Jesus and to meet all their past friends and family, including their favourite grandma and pet dog Boo Boo from when they were a kid. Serious bible scholars like Bart Urhmann and atheists like Sam Harris point out that the bible says no such thing. Some vague statements are peddled to suggest this myth, but mostly the bible says that when you die you are dead, and maybe if God and Jesus get around to it, in godly not human time, you might be reaped up as a believer to the kingdom of God. It's hardly clear or very encouraging. So, Christian afterlife isn't that much of a promise, at best. But most of them don't know that. Believer or non believer, when you die you are dead.

I personally find my belief that there's no afterlife comforting. I have this life to do with what I want (at least to some extent) then I flicker out like a candle. I agree that the idea of not seeing others in an afterlife is sad. OR IS IT??? Now I'm going to get a little weird. Maybe one reason I'm not bothered by not having an afterlife is that I have never seen any depiction of an afterlife that I saw as any more appealing as life here. My parents didn't particularly like me and I didn't like one of my grandmothers at all. I have two ex-husbands that I'd just as soon never see again. Even if I liked either of them, each had previous wives and subsequent wives. So how does that get sorted out?? Whoever dislikes him the least? (Please don't jump down my throat -- I'm kidding.) And I'm someone who needs to be doing something almost constantly. I can't imagine floating around in a white robe with wings and a halo doing nothing. The afterlives I've seen in science fiction aren't much more appealing.

I sort of look at dying as like wandering into a really great bar about fifteen minutes before closing time. You wish you had more time to stay, but you don't. They're going to throw you out so they can go home. Of course I'd rather not leave my daughter, but she'll do well without me when the time comes. Besides, I used to tell my students that I thought my generation (Baby Boomers) were holding back a lot of the advancement on social issues and things would get better when we died and got out of the way.

Your conciousness dies with your body and you end up rotting in the ground unless you're creamated.

Since I never been Dead... How the Fuck will I know?

Flora and fauna get to eat my remains.

Most of us will be quickly forgotten and after few generations completely erased from existance. No one remembers the grand grand grand whatever anyway. Few exceptions I can think of...the likes of Galileo, Newton, Einstein and the freaking awesome Beatles. Those will live forever after death

I really don't "deal with it" anymore, it is really just a matter of letting go of expectations and stopping the constant denial of my own mortality. Life is what it is, not what I wish it was. We are what we are, not what we wish we were. And the reality is that when we don't try to be something we're not (immortal) and instead deal in reality, reality isn't so bad actually. People have been told from the cradle that they can't handle bare-metal reality. But if you are willing to admit you're a mortal being with limited intellectual and sensory equipment, you can then realize you have correspondingly modest needs.

Sometimes I joke that at my age, just taking a good dump is all the accomplishment I really care about in a given day. Today I finally got around to exchanging a phone at the store, and investigating a TV we're considering buying, I had a meeting with my subcontractor that went well, and got some milestones accomplished at work. This is such a cornucopia of goodness if you're willing to see it as such, that you can become so easily amused that you don't need to understand the meaning of life, and save a damsel in distress every day to feel adequate.

i have no comforting beliefs regarding this, no stored energy, no soul, no reincarnation, no heaven, no hell. life is temporary. deal with it? what choice have i got? it is what it is.

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To me this is quite easy. Any energy that is stored within our body will be returned to the earth upon our death. This in turn is used to fuel new growth. It’s the circle of life... no more, no less. All the mystical nonsense is because people fear death. Death is as much of a part of life as birth is.

When we die, all devout, good Christians will go to heaven and spend eternity learning to play the garp, while all non-Christians will go to hell, i.e. a section of heaven where they will be tortured for eternity by zillions of Christians creating a cacaphony of horrible sounds of idiots who can never learn to play the harp.

So we are like the animals. They don't get anything better according to the religionists.

Short answer their elements return to their basic composition.

We don't know for sure what is in store for us after death. There's no conclusive evidene concerning the existence or non-existence of a life after death.

From JC Superstar. To conquer death, you only have to die.

Simply choose to live with "purpose" in doing our best to leave a decent, stable, and hopefully enjoyable planet to future generations going forward far in time, and resist falling for the honesty- and insight-lacking notion that, despite that complete lack of clear evidence, we are somehow completely unlike all other forms of life on earth and will somehow Not return to dust. Yolo can be done with joy, energy, And responsibility and honesty.

I take great relief from seeing death as final. For one, it mean the evil that lives in people is snuffed out, instead of merely transported elsewhere.

As for myself, I feel I was not meant to live for ever.
All is entropy. Even if we had immortal souls, we would degrade after death. Lose what makes us who we are and become something very different. An endless cycle of the destruction of self.
I would rather not exist than experiencing that infinity.
It's been painful enough to have lost all that I used to be over the course of not-quite-a-life span.

Not a problem, We , as human, see life as the all be all rather than what it really is. I , the being , was nowhere before birth, this entity did not exist yet so to think we were somewhere before birth is incorrect. We were not present before we were. After our bodies wear down or get killed off, the balance of energy does not change at all. This life is merely a entertainment center for the brain. After the brain is dead, no longer functioning, our reality no longer exist. But to what energy system my atoms join with after death is exciting .

I enjoy my my life but most importantly I have my daughter who can hopefully contribute in the future. We are animals and our one driving goal is to propagate the species....well that is how I see it. Just make sure you enjoy the time you have

Something I just read.

[healthy-holistic-living.com]

The thing is, this isn't exactly news. For me, The Law of Conservation of Energy makes perfect sense. It states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; energy can only be transferred or changed from one form to another.

In my opinion, the expression "for all eternity and beyond", is woo woo, and is used to try and form a readers opinion, as opposed to presenting the facts to be considered without any spin.
I don't think that JimiYugo had any intention to manipulate anyone, just my version of proofreading.

UPDATE: I've made changes to the following text:

'Realizing this and thinking about it just for a moment quickly brings about a feeling of indescribable sadness, imagining that we will never again see our loved ones, and makes the reason for the desire for more life, the afterlife, quite obvious. Hence, God.

What are your thoughts on this? How do you cope with the realization that this life is all there is, and all that there will ever be, for all eternity and beyond?'

Ummm, if you are dead, you will not care, so why waste a moment of precious Life on it?!

Although I can't verify it , I have read of people who come up with information and can ( supposedly ) even speak in a language they did not know in their current life . They do claim to believe in reincarnation .