When you die, then what?

My opinion is a "bit" more pessimistic (but maybe also more realistic?)

Just before the moment of death, there might be a short life review. All right, I can accept this (as it was reported by people being nearly dead).
If your death is a very fast one, like dying in an explosion, this review doesn't happen. Simply because the human brain cannot act that fast.

After your brain is completely dead/destroyed, absolutely nothing happens.
Our so called "spirit", in my opinion only the definition of the great neuron complex between our ears, just doesn't exist anymore. There is no heaven and no hell where it can 'fly' to.
The body cannot work without the brain, means it is taken to the graveyard and turns to earth.

Sure, I do not have any prove of that but noone has. It is only my own opinion.

Regards
Sinthoras

the answer is very easy after life comes the same as before we were born...nothing

Why is it that people cannot accept the fact of "nothingness", it exists all around you. Before you were born you were nothing, and after you die you are nothing. Why would you see a review or your life? It's like saying that after you die you get 3 wishes. Life isn't a Disney movie...

Ye sure, but I think those people having been 'already' dead and than were brought to live again saw such things and had told it later.
One can interpret it as "searching" of the brain for a solution for such a heavy attack on it (death is one of the worst attacks, though its the last ^^). It trys to find any similarities in any situation of your whole life, what makes you thinking of a live review. The matter that you only see the positive aspects is explained simple: the brain is designed to save the good things better than the bad.

No matter what happens AT THE MOMENT of death, after it there's nothing, I agree with you

when you die you get to redeem points during life. You have to spend these points under a certain formula:

COL+RATAB+COL_RABAB_SHISH_KEBAB

Thats the formula for my death pixel colorization for fog and persepective after death. Couple that with my awesome Zero trick and my bubsy 3d level 2 tropical music (act 2).

You then get an invincibility powerup and you can travel the world using a unique flash attack (never invented before), and you get to see panels upon panels of extraneous numbers tracking every useless statistic.

Thats what happens after you die.

My point of view is this:

Until we have disires, and cravings, we will comeback to life(rebirth). If we managed to have clearvision (such as we are nothing 'empty'), and we gave up all of our sense disires, we will not born again. It will be like sleeping without dreaming (completly empty). Only this will end our suffering (old age, illness, broken relationships, deaths of family members, etc).

Just be careful. Don't make the error of assuming that our entire existence is material. Scientists can explain emotions chemically, but can you explain why you actually FEEL emotions. You're just a bunch of chemicals. Your consciousness should not exist. But it does. Obviously there's something supernatural about life.

I know I'm not going to change any of your minds. But I feel I would be irresponsible if I simply let you turn your back on God like that. That said, you don't need to argue my point. I'm not here to change anyone's mind. Discuss onwards.

well if one dies he will just be placed there again and again , until he/she manages to get the live done right. why do you think there are dejavues? just because you already have been there before. mostly those dejavues are to activate your senses not to make the same mistake again, which in you former live caused your death. for example if you once came along a murderer and he killed you. next live you will have a dejavue, keep an eye open and pass that hurdle. onto the next...

if you manage to get onto the next stage (like a butterfly during metamorphosis) i believe you are free. what you believed in live will happen. you can choose to go back on earth, you can just sit around the clouds and play cards with your buddies. whatever you imagine it will come true. you can be everywhere at the same time, as you will go back to where you once came from

It all boils down to this... there are no hard, quantitative, empirical bodies of evidence to support ANY side of this debate. All we have is hearsay and stories. A lot of hopes and fears surround the topic of death, and it is indeed comforting to think that it is not the be-all-and-end-all. To some, having the belief that there "must be something else" afterwards makes death a much more tame prospect. The idea of "nothingness" scares most people, and rightly so, given that we are aware of our own mortality and existence... our instinct for survival.
If there is reason to believe that something else exists beyond your own personal demise, then why not ask someone who has passed on to explain what happens afterwards, etc, etc, etc...
Remember that we are all made of atoms, though. So maybe there is something else afterwards... your constituent atoms (the hydrogen anyway) has been around since the beginning of the universe as we currently understand it. They will be around after you die. They may become part of a tree, or a shoe, or any other conceivable type of object.
Conversly, some of the atoms that currently make you up could have been part of Napoleon, or part of a dog poo, etc, etc. They were, after all, originally synthesized within the stars, but that is too far of topic here.
What we are looking for here though is evidence of sentience beyond our lives. I'm afraid this has, in my opinion, been entirely undemonstrated.
We all have cherished beliefs, but to my knowledge there has only been one tool cultivated by humanity that has been the true wayfarer on the road to truth, and that is science. Used correctly, this tool can be our greatest ally. Used incorrectly, irresponsibly, or quoted out of context, it can mislead and perhaps destroy us.
There is room in this world for all beliefs, on faith or otherwise. However, and this is just my opinion, I would rather have the cold, hard facts than succumb to insubstantiation.
Now, if a body of good evidence came to light demonstrating that there is some sort of cogniscent activity beyond your life, then we can use science as a tool to study it. That is why science has succeeded in every field that has tasked it. Done correctly, it is impersonal and self correcting. The impersonal part of science may not be altogether to our liking, but the universe is not required to conform to the aspirations and ambitions of humans.
People who say to me "how can you live without believing in xyz..." and that my spirit is sterile. To them I reply that there are untold wonders in the field of science, stranger than even the most fanciful fiction. This is what makes my "spirit" soar!
In conclusion, I also believe, given the evidence, that although the universe goes on after you die, you are not aware of it. In fact, you are not aware of anything anymore. No matter how upset I may be at this dismal conclusion (and I am) and no matter how much I want to belive that I will go on somehow, I have to accept that there is a finallity to my own personal existence in my current configuration. I take solice though, that my consituent parts (atoms) will be around for time immemorial!
I do not pretend to know anything about death, but one day, for the briefest instant, I most certainly will. That is for sure. The problem is that I don't think it would be possible to impart the description of the experience in any meaningful way before I passed into oblivion, or impart any other information thereafter.
All the more reason to make your life count for something every day!

interesting point of view @ello
but what about a computer generated soul then? (ye we're in a programmers forum ^^)
If the AI developement comes to the point where a human brain can be simulated.. where the computer gehts its own behaviour, its own 'soul'.. What about this one then?

and to Gazzbass:
you have written down a lot of things that I think of, too. Thanks to that
Science turned to be the most 'wonderful' area ever, it brought us things even religion could not imagine.

I don't fear death at all. No big deal, lights go off, it's not that I will notice that at all, at least the process won't last forever anyway. The real question is not about death itself, but about wether or not there's something after it. Well I can think about a lot of stuff that could happen, but we'd only know it once that moment arrives. Inevitable ánd unpredictable, so why worry at all? I could die tomorrow, but I could have been dead yesterday already (off course me typing this would be kinda uuuhm ... ).
Just enjoy life and don't worry about the end, better have a lot of pleasure now, than one big dissappointment at the end,

Cheers

personally, I think there is a certain "groaning" or pain that we all endure right from birth. Even if you supposedly feel like a million dollars, eat healthy, feel healthy, I think there is a certain pain or constraint we endure. Ive been coming to realize that the feeling of pleasure is in close range with pain ( eg. sexual climax, or like the sensation after a stomach ache passes). So this pain that we feel all the time has been intertwined in our pleasure.

I dont know how to explain it, but I think its the weight of our physical body chaining and breaking down constantly during our life. The containment of our mind in a physical form (the brain) hurts it and prevents it from freedom. So ultimatly, I think that right after death, you feel a freedom and rest like youve never felt before. Rest of mind, body and soul. Personally, I think that even the most evil of mankind get an intitial rest after dying.

And after that rest, well no one knows.... except forum posters

What happens when you die depends on what happens when your alive, if you die after having lived a life full of artifical reality, you will surely die, for there will be now spirit left to transcend.

1. Conciousness and cognition come from the brain through some process, as evidenced by the fact that braind amage cna permenently affect cognitiona dn personality.
2. The brain requires oxygen to function
3. When dead, no oxygen reaches the brain for an extened period of time

Conclusion: When you die your conciousness ceases to exist.

When you die you die, what's the big mystery? Its the same as not having been born yet.

After I die, i'll go straight back to the 'Please insert coin' page because my player forgot to bring an extra quarter.

what happens, happens when i die, i believe i will go to heaven, and that i will live eternal life..

blah when you die you shed your skin, blood and bones. Your spirit either goes free to wander about..provided you follow the rules (like not disclosing anything about God.. or all the other stuff the living aint supposed to know).. or gets conscripted on another sortie..

There's nothin much transcendental about it.. but.. if you try hard enough.. you can retain your memories as a civil war soldier when you're a accountant on the 98th floor of a corporate headquarters... and if you're lucky you'll forget that life when you're an interplanetary space trucker