So, /suicide/, what do you think happens after you die? I mean, will we be happier after we die or are we just jumping ship to unburden the people around us? Are we headed to some kind of afterlife or are we just fucked into reincarnating here or something

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John Doe 10/15/15 (Thu) 06:16:14 aa47e6 No.12006

So, /suicide/, what do you think happens after you die? I mean, will we be happier after we die or are we just jumping ship to unburden the people around us? Are we headed to some kind of afterlife or are we just fucked into reincarnating here or something?

John Doe 10/15/15 (Thu) 21:41:52 1a58f6 No.12019

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Are you humble enough to accept the truth? The illusion that is consciousness will simply cease after brain death, being a by product of its usual function. I think this makes things even easier for us. Coming to terms with the reality of materialism and determinism has been liberating for me. So one doesn't worry about having wasted his life, condemned his soul or whatever.

John Doe 10/16/15 (Fri) 01:20:10 ae904c No.12023

I don't think anything happens after you die. Once your brain stops functioning thats it. Just nothingness. Logically thinking thats the only possible outcome, but since it's impossible to confirm you never know for certain. It would certainly be interesting to be proven wrong with actual evidence.

I think the reason the concept of an afterlife exists is because people fear the unknown, the thought of dieing scares them.

It's kind of funny how something that scares most can actually be really comforting…

John Doe 10/16/15 (Fri) 04:56:59 90c3f0 No.12026

If you want to know what Tibetans think, who have probably studied the afterlife the most, read:

http://www.near-death.com/religion/buddhism/tibetan-book-of-the-dead.html

From a western perspective:

http://www.astralpulse.com/frankkepple.html

I personally think I'm unattached enough to the world that becoming a Buddhist monk doesn't help me.

If you have strong attachments and / or negative emotions towards the world, I'd advise you to at least learn to mediate to lower your chances of ending up in a hollow hell of your own making.

John Doe 10/16/15 (Fri) 05:03:06 90c3f0 No.12027

Oh and if you can't handle normal meditation, the pure land method is retard proof:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Land_Buddhism#Meditation

Chances are this will lead you to a hollow heaven, but it's better than a hollow hell amirite?

John Doe 10/17/15 (Sat) 07:16:45 58eb13 No.12047

Most likely this >>12019 absolute nothingness for all eternity, though you may trip balls for a brief moment as your brain shuts off.

But since im a skeptic I'll give afterlife, in particular reincarnation, the benefit of doubt but im 99.999% sure this consciousness and your memories perish at death. It'd make no difference at all imho anyway. Personally I don't really care, I just believe this minuscule chance exists because we have no way to know for sure and not because of fear or desire for an afterlife. Im ok with it being the end.

John Doe 10/17/15 (Sat) 12:34:39 787bc3 No.12049

Remember how it was before you came to be? It will be like that. There will be no you to experience anything.

John Doe 10/18/15 (Sun) 08:06:00 f5caa1 No.12059

>>12023

Without reposting my story in every goddamn thread and being identified by it, oblivion is the last stop once the brain runs out of juice, and the last step is a doozy. But then it's nothing, with just the most brief understanding of it.

Heart started beating again after about ten minutes, so involuntarily I live again, to tell the tale.