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What is death like?

punshhh said:
Yes, but when you say reconciled is that just a resigned acceptance?

After all one is referring to an eternity of non existence, waiting just around the corner.
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I think resigned acceptance pretty much covers it. You don't have to see atheists at a funeral though to get the idea. I think of growing old in exactly the same way -- an unavoidable consequence of being alive.

I say unavoidable only because I am not prone to suicidal thinking.
 
Belgium in the rain. :D

Or, to answer the question seriously: You won't be aware of it because you will be dead. Your consciousness will no longer exist. You will no longer exist, except as a dead body decomposing in the ground, or as ashes if your body is cremated.
 
punshhh said:
I wouldn't have put incorrectly here, we are talking hypotheticals.

I presumed it would be at the time of birth not death. You would be born just like you were born in your current life.

By being born into a reality. I disagree with what you say about infinity, if its possible it will occur infinite times.

Ah looks like you considered being born. After your next life presumably you would be born again and again until you could somehow escape the wheel of rebirth. Sounds like Buddhism.
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I knew you would use your favourite word.
 
punshhh said:
In that case why did existence even bother to exist, if its only to condemn the forms which fleetingly exist to an eternity of oblivion.
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Existence could choose to exist? That's a novel concept. Existence is a state of bring, not an entity that can choose. If existence did not choose to exist then where would it be hiding? How are you defining the word ''existence'' here? We'd better check that with you.
 
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punshhh said:
No need to worry about anything then?
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Nope. Just do your best, look after your kith and kin and try to be honest in your dealings with people. Wash the dishes after every meal. Hope that when the end comes it won't be too long drawn out and painful. Try and enjoy the ride, you're only here once.
 
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Punshhh, why don't you PM Limbo? He has traveled through the universe in his astral body, danced on the dark side of the Moon, he was present at the second coming of Jesus, which nobody else seems to have noticed. He's bound to have been dead and come back to life a few times. I bet he will have the mystical answers that you seek.
 
punshhh said:
Yes, but when you say reconciled is that just a resigned acceptance?

After all one is referring to an eternity of non existence, waiting just around the corner.
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Yes. The alternative would be non-acceptance, as in convincing yourself that there is really an eternal afterlife waiting for you rather than oblivion. It's one of the big reasons people embrace religion, IMO.
 
punshhh said:
In that case why did existence even bother to exist, if its only to condemn the forms which fleetingly exist to an eternity of oblivion.
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That's anthropomorphizing. Existence can't bother to do anything or condemn anyone, it just is. In the same way, nature has no mercy, the lion sheds no tears over the fawn it's eating.
 
Marcus said:
That's anthropomorphizing. Existence can't bother to do anything or condemn anyone, it just is. In the same way, nature has no mercy, the lion sheds no tears over the fawn it's eating.
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Mystics and believers cannot accept that something just is. There always has to be an esoteric reason, hidden from most of mankind because we are not yet advanced enough to deal with such special knowledge. It's a common theme in ''mystical'' schools of thought, especially Theosophy.
 
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punshhh said:
I disagree with what you say about infinity, if its possible it will occur infinite times.
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Why? Just because something is infinite doesn't mean that it will contain every possibility. For example, you could easily have an infinite non-repeating series of decimal digits that never contains the digit 7.

Unless you mean if it can be produced by random chance, it may occur infinite times?

But your existing mind/memories at your point of death can't just randomly be reproduced in a new healthy body.
 
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dafydd said:
Mystics and believers cannot accept that something just is.
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How do you know what it is that just is? or are you assuming that physical matter as described by science is all there is? Where's your proof?
 
dafydd said:
Mystics and believers cannot accept that something just is. There always has to be an esoteric reason, hidden from most of mankind because we are not yet advanced enough to deal with such special knowledge. It's a common theme in ''mystical'' schools of thought, especially Theosophy.
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I guess there is just a big need to feel special. Privy to secret knowledge, chosen by God, something.
 
punshhh said:
Yes this is because I am talking to a human from a human point of view.This can only be an assumption, or can you offer some proof of this?
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Anthropomorphizing is assigning human characteristics to things which are non-human. "Existence" is definitely non-human , so the default position would be that it doesn't have any human feelings like wanting something.
 
Brian-M said:
Why? Just because something is infinite doesn't mean that it will contain every possibility. For example, you could easily have an infinite non-repeating series of decimal digits that never contains the digit 7.
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In that case 7 is not a possibility. Look at it the other way around, there will be an infinite quantity of combinations of any and all units, except those which are in some way impossible given the circumstances. I have proof that the combination of atoms which form myself at birth, can form in this existence. Hence it may occur infinite times.

Unless you mean if it can be produced by random chance, it may occur infinite times?
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Not necessarily, although there is talk that the form our known universe takes is a result of random processes following the Big bang. If it may occur in an infinitely endless space and time it will occur infinite times.

But your existing mind/memories at your point of death can't just randomly be reproduced in a new healthy body.
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Yes I am not going to dispute this. My assumption is that the right conditions for you to be born again in the precise form you were last time, would result in a continuation of the same life.
 
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