What do you think death feels like ?

[Anonymous]

Lonely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it sounds crazy, but I’ve re-discovered the religion I was brought up with and I swear the stuff that’s happened to me lately in response to prayer is mind-blowing. I feel like I finally get it…those people who are dying and not afraid. Like I said, I know it sounds crazy

Doesn't sound crazy -- it sounds pretty normal, considering that most people are still religious. At least they say they are. It's surprising that there are so few references to religion on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think our time on earth is purgatory. I think life as we know it is a second chance with good and evil (God and the devil) challenging us along the way. How you choose to respond, live your life, will determine your reality when you leave your body for the afterlife (heaven or hell).

You sound Catholic, mentioning purgatory, but purgatory is part of the afterlife, as any Catholic knows, and it's not here on earth.

It sounds like you just made up your own theology, which I don't think any religion allows.

Also catholics now regard Purgatory as a purification process not a place.

On 4 August 1999, Pope John Paul II, speaking of purgatory, said: "The term does not indicate a place, but a condition of existence. Those who, after death, exist in a state of purification, are already in the love of Christ who removes from them the remnants of imperfection as "a condition of existence".

[Anonymous]

If this is something that is very interesting to you, try reading the novel “Passage” by Connie Willis. It really stayed with me and affected how I think about death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mostly I think it’s going to feel like deep sleep with isolated sense of dream like awareness.
In this state you are going to lose sense of self but you will have awareness of the presence of others.
I think that is how we exited before birth.

I don’t know personally as I have never died physically.

However, I have enjoyed several shows documenting people who technically died for a short length of time and then came back to this life. Many described similar experiences. Nearly all described feeling much less afraid of death now and not wanting to leave the peaceful states they found themselves in. A couple described a hell like experience (dark, heavy, alone, oppressive) and completely changed their life priorities after returning to this life. If you watch any of them, please report back as to your impressions.

I Survived... Beyond and Back: A TV series on Hulu that profiles people who have had unexplainable experiences after being pronounced dead

Surviving Death: A docuseries on Netflix that explores near-death experiences,
reincarnation, and paranormal phenomena

The Life After Death Project: A show available to stream on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, Plex, and Plex Channel

Life to Afterlife: Death and Back: A 2020 movie available to watch

Death and Back 1: A show available to watch on Amazon Prime Video
In this episode of Life to Afterlife, Craig McMahon sits down with four people who died but came back to life.

Life After Death with Tyler Henry: A show available to watch on Netflix


I Died... and Came Back: A TV series that began in 2024 The show that follows the true stories of people who have had near-death experiences

Sounds like people are making a lot of money exploiting people's interest in what happens after death.

But if you're truly a Christian, you already know. You learned about it in Sunday School and hear about it in church and from other people.

Give me these documentaries over true crime/ reality shows/ gratuitous violence/ dystopian shows any day. I doubt that there is that much money in these shows compared to many other more popular shows but I am glad that some film makers are telling these stories.

I am religious and I found it reassuring that so many people found their NDEs to be very peaceful.

I don’t think Christians have a monopoly on God and look forward to great diversity in the next life. In my view, God is friendly to DEI 😀

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think our time on earth is purgatory. I think life as we know it is a second chance with good and evil (God and the devil) challenging us along the way. How you choose to respond, live your life, will determine your reality when you leave your body for the afterlife (heaven or hell).

So, you think we pre existed birth in some form.
Interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So far, there’s been little mention of the religious tropes so many of us were taught to believe.

What about pearly gates, meeting God, reunions with Grandma, sitting on a cloud playing a harp?

Surely some of the people here aren’t expecting to just die. What about God?

I'm Christian and I think, and assume you know, that most of those visuals are metaphorical. I also think that meeting God isn't going to be like having a conversation. I think our consciousness after death must be fundamentally different.

But I also admit I'm scared we do just wink out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So far, there’s been little mention of the religious tropes so many of us were taught to believe.

What about pearly gates, meeting God, reunions with Grandma, sitting on a cloud playing a harp?

Surely some of the people here aren’t expecting to just die. What about God?

I'm Christian and I think, and assume you know, that most of those visuals are metaphorical. I also think that meeting God isn't going to be like having a conversation. I think our consciousness after death must be fundamentally different.

But I also admit I'm scared we do just wink out.

It sounds like the above is something you made up and did not learn from your religion.

PS: I think there nothing to be scared of if we just "wink out." It will be like before we were born.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So far, there’s been little mention of the religious tropes so many of us were taught to believe.

What about pearly gates, meeting God, reunions with Grandma, sitting on a cloud playing a harp?

Surely some of the people here aren’t expecting to just die. What about God?

I'm Christian and I think, and assume you know, that most of those visuals are metaphorical. I also think that meeting God isn't going to be like having a conversation. I think our consciousness after death must be fundamentally different.

But I also admit I'm scared we do just wink out.

It sounds like the above is something you made up and did not learn from your religion.

PS: I think there nothing to be scared of if we just "wink out." It will be like before we were born.

DP - there are actually Bible verses that support PPs belief

For eg., "Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known".
1 Corinthians 13:9-13

In this passage, Paul is saying that our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and that we will eventually know fully, as God knows us. The hope of full revelation should encourage us to live faithfully and seek deeper understanding.

Bible verses that address consciousness after death include Luke 16:19–31, John 11:25, and 1 Corinthians 15:52. These verses suggest that believers will be conscious and present with God after death. It will likely be very different from our current embodied states - maybe less of a conscious transformation for those who seek to clothe themselves in spiritual robes of selfless love, patience, kindness, humility, compassion and gentleness in this life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So far, there’s been little mention of the religious tropes so many of us were taught to believe.

What about pearly gates, meeting God, reunions with Grandma, sitting on a cloud playing a harp?

Surely some of the people here aren’t expecting to just die. What about God?

I'm Christian and I think, and assume you know, that most of those visuals are metaphorical. I also think that meeting God isn't going to be like having a conversation. I think our consciousness after death must be fundamentally different.

But I also admit I'm scared we do just wink out.

It sounds like the above is something you made up and did not learn from your religion.

PS: I think there nothing to be scared of if we just "wink out." It will be like before we were born.

DP - there are actually Bible verses that support PPs belief

For eg., "Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known".
1 Corinthians 13:9-13

In this passage, Paul is saying that our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and that we will eventually know fully, as God knows us. The hope of full revelation should encourage us to live faithfully and seek deeper understanding.

Bible verses that address consciousness after death include Luke 16:19–31, John 11:25, and 1 Corinthians 15:52. These verses suggest that believers will be conscious and present with God after death. It will likely be very different from our current embodied states - maybe less of a conscious transformation for those who seek to clothe themselves in spiritual robes of selfless love, patience, kindness, humility, compassion and gentleness in this life.

DP
Those Christian bible verses seem very vivid explanation of after life.
I don’t take them as metaphors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you been put to sleep for an operation?
I foresee it will be like that except that you don’t wake up later. Then that’s it. Forget about heaven or rejoining lost loved ones.

That’s my sense of it

I had surgery in December and I kept staring at the ceiling and thinking the anesthesia wasn’t going to work. And then in what to me was no time at all I was opening my eyes in recovery. I was thinking about how that absolute blank of unconsciousness might be how death is, but find it depressing. I’m not at all religious or spiritual, but I find accounts of the tunnel toward light comforting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So far, there’s been little mention of the religious tropes so many of us were taught to believe.

What about pearly gates, meeting God, reunions with Grandma, sitting on a cloud playing a harp?

Surely some of the people here aren’t expecting to just die. What about God?

OP didn’t mention God but mentioned about the awareness of the presence of others.

Who are the others? God? angels?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mostly I think it’s going to feel like deep sleep with isolated sense of dream like awareness.
In this state you are going to lose sense of self but you will have awareness of the presence of others.
I think that is how we exited before birth.

I don’t know personally as I have never died physically.

However, I have enjoyed several shows documenting people who technically died for a short length of time and then came back to this life. Many described similar experiences. Nearly all described feeling much less afraid of death now and not wanting to leave the peaceful states they found themselves in. A couple described a hell like experience (dark, heavy, alone, oppressive) and completely changed their life priorities after returning to this life. If you watch any of them, please report back as to your impressions.

I Survived... Beyond and Back: A TV series on Hulu that profiles people who have had unexplainable experiences after being pronounced dead

Surviving Death: A docuseries on Netflix that explores near-death experiences,
reincarnation, and paranormal phenomena

The Life After Death Project: A show available to stream on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, Plex, and Plex Channel

Life to Afterlife: Death and Back: A 2020 movie available to watch

Death and Back 1: A show available to watch on Amazon Prime Video
In this episode of Life to Afterlife, Craig McMahon sits down with four people who died but came back to life.

Life After Death with Tyler Henry: A show available to watch on Netflix


I Died... and Came Back: A TV series that began in 2024 The show that follows the true stories of people who have had near-death experiences

Sounds like people are making a lot of money exploiting people's interest in what happens after death.

But if you're truly a Christian, you already know. You learned about it in Sunday School and hear about it in church and from other people.

Give me these documentaries over true crime/ reality shows/ gratuitous violence/ dystopian shows any day. I doubt that there is that much money in these shows compared to many other more popular shows but I am glad that some film makers are telling these stories.

I am religious and I found it reassuring that so many people found their NDEs to be very peaceful.

I don’t think Christians have a monopoly on God and look forward to great diversity in the next life. In my view, God is friendly to DEI 😀

100% Jesus was the OG of DEI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this is something that is very interesting to you, try reading the novel “Passage” by Connie Willis. It really stayed with me and affected how I think about death.

If it's a novel, that means it' fiction. Death s real and various religions have distinct ideas about what happens at death, e.g., the soul leaves the body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So far, there’s been little mention of the religious tropes so many of us were taught to believe.

What about pearly gates, meeting God, reunions with Grandma, sitting on a cloud playing a harp?

Surely some of the people here aren’t expecting to just die. What about God?

I'm Christian and I think, and assume you know, that most of those visuals are metaphorical. I also think that meeting God isn't going to be like having a conversation. I think our consciousness after death must be fundamentally different.

But I also admit I'm scared we do just wink out.

It sounds like the above is something you made up and did not learn from your religion.

PS: I think there nothing to be scared of if we just "wink out." It will be like before we were born.

DP - there are actually Bible verses that support PPs belief

For eg., "Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known".
1 Corinthians 13:9-13

In this passage, Paul is saying that our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and that we will eventually know fully, as God knows us. The hope of full revelation should encourage us to live faithfully and seek deeper understanding.

Bible verses that address consciousness after death include Luke 16:19–31, John 11:25, and 1 Corinthians 15:52. These verses suggest that believers will be conscious and present with God after death. It will likely be very different from our current embodied states - maybe less of a conscious transformation for those who seek to clothe themselves in spiritual robes of selfless love, patience, kindness, humility, compassion and gentleness in this life.

DP
Those Christian bible verses seem very vivid explanation of after life.
I don’t take them as metaphors.

Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known".
1 Corinthians 13:9-13

Leaves a lot of room for interpretation