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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Religion aside, do you believe in life after death?
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There is the possibility that we don't understand life at all and what we view as death is some kind of sentience that we haven't understood.
There's also the concept that the amount of activity in the brain causes us to perceive time in an extremely slow manner. That brain activity would cause us to experience time as far slower than if you were healthy. Monumentally slower. There's a chance that it could be infinitesimally slower. Combine that with the tales of people's life flashing before their eyes (I do kind of wonder if this is a Western thing, I haven't read up on it), you basically just live your life again for an eternity. That might be what enforces some people who have near death experiences to believe in a heaven or hell, because if you have a ****ty life then your near death experience is going to be too, right? People who live like a ****in Mormon sitcom and dig that experience that from a sheltered little brief experience that's different from their life.
Could be 100% bull**** and the opposite though. Or so wrong it's not even on the same plane.
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Or if you don't, do you wish there was?
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I could take it or leave it. I don't know what I would be signing up for tbh, there could be a lot of work involved and idk about that.
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If you're not, and you believe we all end up just, as Waits says, dirt in the ground, are you okay with this or do you wish there was something we could look forward to?
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I don't know if I would say that I believe that, but I don't see any reason to doubt it.
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Do you look on the idea of being reunited with your loved ones with scorn, but secretly wish it could happen, or do you in fact believe this is what awaits us after death?
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How do I know they're going to pick out all of my loved ones? I don't like about a third of my family or many of the people who consider me a loved one, even though whenever they die I feel a lot of empathy for the way they go and the timing within other people's lives. That just sounds like a lot of work tbh.
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Or have you resigned yourself to the belief that once people are gone, they're gone, and you'll never be reunited with them?
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[cheesy answer about how learning about them through the people that are left behind is like being reunited with them]
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What are your thoughts about death?
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It's a hard fact and it's probably not in our best interest in the long run. You can only find out the hard way. I'm not really seeking it out.
The real death experience, I do kind of look forward to it in a way because I almost see it like doing a crazy new drug. I would rather work on making my life good than worry about what happens when I'm done.
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Do you think about it a lot?
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I think about real world deaths a lot and how much they suck, but I don't ponder much about the afterlife.
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Are you comfortable knowing you will die at some point, or are you thinking about cryo?
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I cryo every day, but not about the afterlife. I'm comfortable with the concept of death as the end. I'm not comfortable with it coming upon me or anyone else.
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Looking for ways to live forever?
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We know that the world will go on around us, so we can only do whatever we can and leave the biggest footprint so that no one forgets you.