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Same thing that was happening before I was conceived.

You do not "become" one with the universe - you already are. 🧘🏻‍♂️

The same thing that happened before I was born

Since I'm not religious, the most logical answer is probably nothing. We simply cease to exist.

Obviously though, I won't know until it happens.

I just hope I get to hug my dog again

Your brain stops and your body rots.

We just die and then we're gone. Reincarnation could be a comforting idea while we're alive, but even if it's real, we'll never know.

Brain gets no more blood. Neural biochemistry breaks down. Brain dies. You die. That’s it. Except for some incoherent and contradictory texts from bronze-age books or wishful thinking by naive people, there is ZERO scientific evidence that heaven or reincarnation exist. Even Buddha never suggested we would reincarnate, that was an idea added later by some of his followers. The bible is very flimsy on the entire concept of hell and heaven.

I don't think there's an afterlife, but I can hope that there is one. Just being a specter and getting to explore the universe until the end of time would be cool. Realistically, it's probably just nothingness, unless somehow our brains are capable of creating an infinite dream for us.

The same thing that happened before I was born.

Have you ever been knocked out before? Instant time travel into the future. Probably something like that without the ringing sound in your head from whatever hit you. Oh, and also that you never wake up.

I like the idea of reincarnation, but maybe it's my antitheist limited brain, transitioning to a creature with vastly different intelligence or central nervous system seems like the me I am still ceases to exist. Same vibes doesn't even really check out when folks with brain ailments go through massive personality changes and I wouldn't ever expect someone to "maintain their vibe" through that change.

I know the ones who love us will miss us.

Nothing.

Your “perspective,” your view of the world, and all of consciousness, is an illusion maintained by your brain. Death is no different than turning a machine off and disassembling it.

I will say, the human ability to make conscious choices is really something special.

Your “afterlife” is the hole you leave behind. It’s the impact you leave on the world, and how others remember you.

We go to sleep and never wake up.

"When?" I think you mean, "If."

Depends on whether you get cremated or not. If you're cremated, you turn into ash. Otherwise you most likely turn into dirt.

No more shifts at work, no more rent to pay. Pure bliss.

If I didnt have big plans for my death I'd probably have intentionally ODed on heroin already.

Hopefully I was a good boy and I get to ask Baba why hotdogs come in packs of 10 but buns in 8? 😅

You go back to where your consciousness comes from. Everyone has their own idea of what that means, but I don't think anyone is 100% correct.

Actually, personality I believe that everyone is correct. You can go chill in heaven for a while, do whatever you want, maybe come back to Earth again after a breather.

You know that feeling when you're playing a really intense game or watching a movie, and then it ends? And you just sit there like, damn. That was epic. Then you talk about it with your friends and family, maybe eat lunch, just hang out for a while before deciding what to do next? The comfortable zone after an exciting event but before boredom sets in. Maybe that movie was peak for you and you're done forever, maybe not.

God welcoming me with open arms and tears in his eyes and I keep ragebaiting him to see what happens

I relinquish control of my atoms, at least to whatever extent I controlled some of them prior to death. And I no longer perceive or think or remember.

If I could reincarnate into anything other than a human on earth, I'm not sure I'd want to retain memories of a past life. I'd hate to poison a new and different life with the baggage of a human lifetime, for better or worse.

Mind uploading or cryonic preservation for possible future revival and treatment is a nice thought, but I would hate for evil billionaires to be able to cheat death, that seems like too big a tradeoff.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

If I could design a system it would be reincarnation with intact memory.

Nothing. Its over.

The only people who know for sure can't tell us, but realistically it's probably a cessation of consciousness.

You put down the alien equivalent of the salvia pipe and all your alien friends are there asking how it was

Do you remember what its like to be asleep? Well, being dead is just the same, but for longer, and probably with fewer dreams.

Someone or something eats your carbon

I’m becoming increasingly convinced of the raw utilitarian nature of consciousness, it being nothing more than an emergent property of a complex enough neural structure.

The body dies, the brain shuts down, the consciousness just ceases to be. The consciousness that is now “me” comes back into existence in another newly formed neural structure. But it’s not me. It’s new, and the only reason “I” am in there is because I’m not in this brain anymore.

You can call reincarnation if you like, but to me that implies the consciousness carrying lessons from its previous lives for some greater purpose. I don’t believe that. When I die, everything I know dies with me and I pop back into existence a blank slate with no knowledge or care of what I once was. Maybe as a giraffe, or a sugar glider, or some hyper intelligent amorphous blob on a planet in a galaxy we can’t even see from here.

I believe our atoms scatter off and bounce into the next thing they can cling to over and over again until we make up a new being. Then we start over.

If it was up to me our souls would convene out in space, get a fresh coat of paint, a report on how we did this go around, then go off to do whatever's next.

Your atoms and energy stop arranging themselves in a way that forms you and become something else for a time.

Mom gets sad

Either nothingness or I awake somewhere else.

Realistically, what's the difference between what happened to you when you were born and what will happen to someone who is born after you're dead?

Don't know, probably nothing. Whatever happens but with a score screen in the end. Times taken a piss, hours slept, right/wrong ratio when arguing on the Internet.