[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ What comes after death?

[Songi]

I don't know. Do we start lives anew? is there another place that we go to? or is there simply nothing at all?

I just can't believe that there might be nothing. That all this is merely all there is. Shouldn't death just be another step in life? So many questions and yet we have no real answers at all. So what does people here think? what do you believe or hope for?

[TWINE006]

Meh. Death's the end.

I take a stone and crack it in two. The stone is gone and only the pieces are left. You can put the pieces back together, but will it ever really be the same stone it was to begin with?

Ok, so let's say the stone is not "alive." Then again, what makes anything "alive"? Living beings are basically just ongoing chemical processes that allow what otherwise is nothing more than a hunk of stone to grow and manipulate basic elements into more "living" material like itself. When you or anything dies and those processes cease, you simply go back to being a chunk of matter no different than a stone.

It seems impossible to fathom that we just cease to exist in an instant... But, what evidence says otherwise? Souls? We have souls? If we have souls, surely the squirrels and birds and racoons outside have souls. If they have souls, surely the tress have souls. Then surely the microscopic bacterium or viruses littering the world as we know it have souls? Hard to believe. Well, maybe only humans have souls. Why? We're no different than anything else. Made of cells which are run by DNA which is made of molecules... molecules, in their most basic forms, not THAT different from one species to the next.

Of course, it doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter what anyone says. There's no evidence pointing to a "life after death" (paradoxial as that is to begin with), so I'm forced to assume that there's simply nothing. Comforting? No. Convincing either way? No. Anything we can do about it? No. It seems like a harsh fate to endure... I suppose you must think of it as being in the same state as you were before you were born... which is just as impossible to imagine.



I've always hated discussions about death and what lies beyond it. :dunno:

This post has been edited by TWINE006: Mar 22 2006, 03:57 AM